Azure Update Manager
An Azure service to centrally manages updates and compliance at scale.
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Updates using azure manager
Hi , I am observing different versions of doing updates using update manager. Some specify to first check updates/periodic assessment , however this pushes updates to the vm's .Others specify setting patch orchestrated option as customer managed schedule…
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How turn off Windows Azure VM Automatic Updates
I have a VM with $vm = Get-AzVM -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Name $vmName $vm.OSProfile.WindowsConfiguration.PatchSettings.PatchMode >> AutomaticByOS $vm.OSProfile.WindowsConfiguration.EnableAutomaticUpdates >> True Can I somehow change…
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Why did my maintenance configuration run before the scheduled start date in Azure Update Manager?
I have maintenance configurations that are scheduled to run on the 2nd Thursday of each month, but the start date is set to 2/13/24. For some reason, they all ran this morning, which is the 2nd Thurs of this month, but not yet 2/13/24: The schedules…
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What happens when a patching fails and what is the state of the instance? Also will the users be notified about that?
What happens when a patching fails and what is the state of the instance? Also will the users be notified about that? As prod has more criticality, will users be notified immediately or their any feature available to enable the notification after…
asked 2023-11-22T11:28:49.58+00:00
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Maheswari
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commented 2024-02-08T15:25:25.9166667+00:00
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Pink Rathod
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PS command to list all VMs from each subscription along with periodic assessment and patch status
Is there any PS command to list all virtual machines from each subscription along with periodic assessment status and export the result to CSV Please share Thank you
asked 2024-02-03T00:30:15.73+00:00
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Varma
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commented 2024-02-07T19:47:35.5666667+00:00
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kobulloc-MSFT
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Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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PowerShell command to list the all virtual machines with status periodic assessment enabled or not
PowerShell command to list the all virtual machines with status periodic assessment enabled or not from particular subscription If you have command please share , thank you
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Machines in dynamic scope of Azure update manager did not get updates installed
I created a maintenance configuration with a dynamic scope which is having 3 arc servers and also added another 3 arc servers manually in Resources tab. A schedule was created to trigger the updates in all the 6 machines. Dynamic scope is using resource…
asked 2024-01-17T00:16:32.79+00:00
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Jain, Mukul
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commented 2024-02-06T04:42:10.2166667+00:00
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SwathiDhanwada-MSFT
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Concerns about patches
I see following warning while scheduling patches. and what is meaning of unsupported patching orchestration how many patch orchestration options are there? is there any PS command to list the methods? I see customer managed, so while scheduling…
asked 2024-01-19T04:43:30.08+00:00
Varma
1,145
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commented 2024-02-05T11:36:32.4366667+00:00
Stanislav Zhelyazkov
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Reputation points MVP
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Failed security updates
We are seeing security updates are failing in virtual machine Please suggest the fix
asked 2024-01-24T05:41:27.04+00:00
Varma
1,145
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commented 2024-02-05T09:14:09.7666667+00:00
SwathiDhanwada-MSFT
17,636
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Updates are failing on virtual machines.
I have tried with one time schedule and also with maintenance configuration. in both cases patch installation is failing, I found below info from logs Failed to OpenPackage using worker session [HRESULT = 0x800f0805] InternalOpenPackage failed for…
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Patching are not getting installed
I have tried with one time schedule and also with maintenance configuration. in both cases patch installation is failing, I found below info from logs Failed to OpenPackage using worker session [HRESULT = 0x800f0805] InternalOpenPackage failed for…
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patches failed for virtual machine
I have set up Maintenance configuration with dynamic scope for the particular resource group, here are the maintenance configuration details: and when i navigated to HISTORY to see virtul machine patch status , I see 1 out 19 , only 1 succeded and 18…
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Is Terraform code available for Azure update manager?
Is Terraform code available for Azure update manager? And, when the code for update manager will be available in terraform?
asked 2023-11-22T11:30:44.32+00:00
Maheswari
10
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commented 2024-02-02T07:44:42.9333333+00:00
Borappa, (Nayaka)
51
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Patch verification about particular vulnerability on virtual machine
Is this patch: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/5028171 resolves below vulnerability? Microsoft CVE-2023-36874: Windows Error Reporting Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability and second question, how to know whether above patch is installed on…
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How to check respective patch for the Virtual machine in the Azure
Is this patch: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/5028171 resolves below vulnerability? Microsoft CVE-2023-36874: Windows Error Reporting Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability and second question, how to know whether above patch is installed on…
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Azrure Update Manager - how do you manage SQL cluster / failover?
Hello Microsoft Q&A Community, I wondered if there was something obvious I was missing - but how is anyone handling SQL clusters when patching with Azure Update Manager? Ideally it would failover from node01 to node02, patch node1 then reverse it…
asked 2023-12-11T11:17:42.2266667+00:00
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Eccup Reservoir
66
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commented 2024-01-30T15:31:38.66+00:00
Chad Thomsen
21
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Patch packages are not getting succeed when we install it
I have tried with one time schedule and also with maintenance configuration. in both cases patch installation is failing, I found below info from logs Just adding some more info from logs as below Failed to OpenPackage using worker session [HRESULT =…
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One of the answers was accepted by the question author.
In a distributed system using Azure Service Fabric, how would you design and implement a fault-tolerant and highly available microservices architecture that ensures minimal downtime during updates and maintenance, while also optimizing for resource utiliz
Problem Description: I am currently working on designing a fault-tolerant microservices architecture using Azure Service Fabric. The goal is to ensure minimal downtime during updates and maintenance while optimizing for resource utilization and…
asked 2024-01-21T02:41:01.2766667+00:00
Nikunj Khunt
380
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accepted 2024-01-24T04:45:33.3+00:00
Nikunj Khunt
380
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Azure Update Manager Dynamic Scopes: do not deploy without at least 1 attached resource
We would like to confirm if the following observation is by design or maybe a bug: From our testing of template deployments of Azure Update Manager (maintenance configurations) we've found that a Maintenance Configuration that has a dynamic scope but no…
asked 2024-01-05T08:04:40.51+00:00
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Mick Collins
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edited a comment 2024-01-24T00:07:10.94+00:00
Ryan Hill
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Azure Update Manager - email notifications upon successful completion?
Dear Microsoft Q&A Community, Does anyone have a good step-by-step for creating email alerts with Azure Update Manager? I've tried ot use the 'built in' alert, for example 'Pending Security and critical updates' or 'Patch installation failures' and…
asked 2023-12-07T08:26:23.2+00:00
Eccup Reservoir
66
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commented 2024-01-23T16:08:04.7333333+00:00
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Samcloud
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