Azure Virtual Machines
An Azure service that is used to provision Windows and Linux virtual machines.
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virtual machine properties not visible in azure
i have a virtual machine running in azure but i am not able to see it's properties as in below screenshot. i want to patch my Centos VM but due to unavailability of this information i am facing error to patch using Azure update management center. …
asked 2022-11-22T15:16:06.813+00:00
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Daniyal Raza
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commented 2022-11-22T15:47:56.13+00:00
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Michael Taylor
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How to export to csv file, machines list from Azure Update Management
Hi, We have Azure Update Management enabled and working under Automation Accounts. I have 400+ Machines added. I want to compare Excel file will "All the machines" that we actually have in the company. My goal is to compare 2 list…
asked 2022-09-12T20:34:29.48+00:00
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Vlad Dodin
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answered 2022-11-18T15:02:07.397+00:00
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Vlad Dodin
21
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asked 2022-11-08T06:23:01.53+00:00
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Somesh Hiremath
1
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answered 2022-11-09T04:27:27.42+00:00
Maxim Sergeev
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Windows Critical update vs Windows Security Upate - update management center Azure
Hello Team, I hope you guys are doing well, I'm working on a patching Infrastructure on azure using update management center, I want to know what are the windows Critical updates ? and if it is a must to deploy on my Azure Prod VMs along…
asked 2022-11-07T08:42:06.207+00:00
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Mohamed jihad bayali
1,101
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commented 2022-11-08T10:33:28.76+00:00
Mohamed jihad bayali
1,101
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Patching windows VM clients (Win 10 VMs) and Debian Linux vms
Hello Team, I hope you're doing fine, I'm starting working with update management centrer to patch my vms. The solution is working fine for Windows server vms, and for Ubuntu/redhad/centos distributions but isn't supported for windows client…
asked 2022-11-01T16:31:50.457+00:00
Mohamed jihad bayali
1,101
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commented 2022-11-07T08:35:04.263+00:00
Mohamed jihad bayali
1,101
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Azure CLI to move Azure Arc Guest to Maintenance group
We recently started onboarding Azure Arc Guest servers from AWS via a Service Principal. That all works as expected but when we try to move them into maintenance groups inside of the Update Management Center (Preview), we get an error back: …
asked 2022-10-18T15:24:58.19+00:00
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Rick Elder
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commented 2022-11-05T10:47:34.13+00:00
tbgangav-MSFT
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Update management Center Limitations
Hello Team, I'm freshly working with update management center( Preview) to patch my workload (Linux,win10,win2016,and win2019 VMs). I'm starting experiencing some issues during the conifguration part. 1) for win10 VMs, i see that their OS isn't supported…
asked 2022-10-31T16:03:53.35+00:00
Mohamed jihad bayali
1,101
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commented 2022-11-01T18:06:58.323+00:00
Maxim Sergeev
6,566
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Windows Updates Delivery Solutions
Hoping for some guidance here. I am looking for couple of best alternatives for managing patching on Windows Servers and Linux, but primarily Windows. I have a mix of different environments, I have a bunch on Azure cloud, a few workloads on AWS and a few…
asked 2022-10-26T02:25:29.747+00:00
Razzi29
331
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commented 2022-10-31T13:21:43.627+00:00
Stanislav Zhelyazkov
21,336
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Update Management Center
Hello Team, I hope you're doing fine, I'm working on a new project to apply automatically Patches to our Windows-Linux VMs For now, most of VMs are created with the option "Automatic by OS", Patches are installed automatically on…
asked 2022-10-27T10:58:44.06+00:00
Mohamed jihad bayali
1,101
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answered 2022-10-28T06:20:55.95+00:00
Maxim Sergeev
6,566
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Update Management Center - Exclude Drivers
Is there anyway to exclude drivers from being installed? You can miss them out by adding in the KB IDs of all the other updates but there's no way to just exclude the drivers
asked 2022-10-18T10:06:21.77+00:00
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Matt9300
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answered 2022-10-18T16:01:30.587+00:00
Maxim Sergeev
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In Azure update when doing deployment cant find machines via tags
Im trying to put my groups and schedules together. I have tagged my machines. Now these machines are primarily on-prem which updating has been working fine WHEN I select every computer separately. Now I want to schedule and do this by tag. It will not…
asked 2022-09-20T14:13:32.997+00:00
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Shicara Smith
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answered 2022-10-18T09:42:04.253+00:00
Matt9300
31
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Patching solution in Azure
I have multiple clients servers on Azure. Can anyone point me in the right direction around patching Azure VMs. Currently we're using Azure update management to deploy patches to VMs. Our another on-prem environment already have SCCM based patching…
asked 2022-10-12T10:12:50.773+00:00
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Deep Parikh
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answered 2022-10-12T19:08:57.16+00:00
Maxim Sergeev
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Azure ARC patch management best practices
Hi, we want to use azure arc to patch our on premise machines, but this feature is still in preview. Looks like we cannot really control updates. So what is the best practices to patch our sensitive servers? Use Azure Arc just for…
asked 2022-09-26T13:06:30.26+00:00
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appwiz.cpl
21
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accepted 2022-09-29T11:52:11.633+00:00
appwiz.cpl
21
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Azure ARC servers installing updates, when they are not part of a maintenance plan.
We have had a serious issue with Azure ARC servers installing updates, when they are not part of a maintenance plan. Their local WindowsUpdate.log indicates that the AzureHybrid worker client service is triggering the installations. We have been…
asked 2022-09-18T22:37:34.193+00:00
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David
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commented 2022-09-26T22:48:22.79+00:00
Maxim Sergeev
6,566
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Enable update management using arm template
Hello. I have arm template to deploy azure vm. I have to enable update management for vm using this arm template. Could you help me and give me advise how I can do it with my current arm template?
asked 2022-09-16T07:19:46.183+00:00
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Roman Kolbnev
1
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answered 2022-09-16T17:59:44.007+00:00
Maxim Sergeev
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Updatemanagement in Automation Account doesn't work anymore when vnet is routed to an Azure Firewall
Hi, I have a strange problem and would like to ask for support. I have an updatemanagement scheduled in an Azure Automation Account for linux and windows VMs. The updatemanagement works fine. I have recently created an Azure firewall and routed…
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Azure VM patching completion notification and Error on "Create a maintenance configuration"
Hello, I would like to alert with email or something once VM auto patching, or OS update are completed. And I would like to ask below two points: 1, I believe I need to schedule in "Update Management". But I keep having the error…
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RHEL Bring Your Own Subscription option for Azure VM
In Azure , we already have Azure Update Management system for updating the security patches on the Azure Linux VMs I have only 2 Azure VMs running on Linux. 1) when we use RHEL Bring your own subscription (BYOS) for Azure , what advantages do we get .…
asked 2022-08-24T12:11:31.143+00:00
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MyAzQuery
166
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commented 2022-09-07T04:54:21.69+00:00
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srbhatta-MSFT
8,546
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Why can't I create new Automation job in West Europe region?
Hello Azure Automation Customers, You might experience a delay or failure of job creation because of scalability issues in West Europe region.
asked 2022-07-01T09:43:24.58+00:00
tbgangav-MSFT
10,386
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commented 2022-09-06T03:42:26.14+00:00
tbgangav-MSFT
10,386
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Azure VM not generating alerts for DISK . Not getting data in Log analytics
Azure VM not generating alerts for DISK . Not getting data in Log analytics Checked - Extension health - It is healthy Checked - MMA inside the VM with no error .Running fine. But still i don't see heartbeat recieve in log analytics. I…
asked 2022-08-20T08:47:52.41+00:00
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coolqwerty
16
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commented 2022-09-04T02:52:09.84+00:00
Maxim Sergeev
6,566
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