Introduction

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Imagine you're the server administrator for a regional fire department (RFD) covering dozens of stations. Your department recently migrated their on-premises systems to the cloud; specifically, they migrated existing servers to virtual machines hosted in Azure. The department has public-facing and private websites supporting email, patient records, and internal applications.

As a part of your effort to keep your infrastructure secure, you need to ensure that the virtual machines in your cloud environment are up-to-date with the latest security and critical updates.

Here you learn about Azure Update Manager, how to deploy Updates to a virtual machine, and how to schedule automatic deployment of critical and security updates.

Learning objectives

In this module, you will:

  • Deploy Update Manager to a virtual machine.
  • Schedule recurring security updates.
  • Schedule recurring critical updates.

Prerequisites

  • Experience administering Azure resources using the Azure portal
  • (Optional) Access to an Azure subscription