Keeping Azure VMs up to date

New Models

Conclusions

You have numerous ways at your disposal to update Azure VMs, some of which can be defined when a VM is created. In general, all Azure VMs and all supported operating systems let you deploy updates with on-board operating system resources, but running Azure Update Management will make more sense in many cases.

Infos

Automatic VM guest patching for Azure VMs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/automatic-vm-guest-patching

The Author

Thomas Joos is a freelance IT consultant and has been working in IT for more than 20 years. In addition, he writes hands-on books and papers on Windows and other Microsoft topics. Online you can meet him on http://thomasjoos.spaces.live.com.

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