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In the first part of this series, I showed you how to enroll Azure virtual machines to Azure Update Management. In the final part, I’ll demonstrate scheduling updates, checking update compliance, and how to enable Update Management on non-Azure VMs.
You can create a specific schedule for updates on each VM that is enrolled with Azure Update Management. If a VM is configured to use WSUS, those settings will always take precedence over any deployment schedule configured in Azure Update Management.
To create a new deployment schedule:
Create a deployment schedule in Azure Update Management (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
You can use Azure Update Management to check update compliance. Scans are performed every 12 hours by default on Windows servers (3 hours on Linux servers) and the agent sends the results to Azure Log Analytics. Scans for update compliance are performed within 15 minutes after the MMA service starts, before update installation, and after update installation.
To view compliance for a single VM:
View update compliance in Azure Update Management (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
To view compliance for all VMs enrolled with an automation account:
View update compliance in Azure Update Management (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
Finally, to enable Azure Update Management on VMs that aren’t hosted in Azure you need to manually install and configure the Microsoft Monitoring Agent. The only requirement is that VMs are running a supported version of Windows Server or Linux and that they have Internet connectivity. More specifically, VMs must be able to communicate with the following addresses over port 443: *.ods.opinsights.azure.com, *.oms.opinsights.azure.com, and *.blob.core.windows.net.
For instructions on how to install the MMA manually, see Aidan Finn’s article On-Premises Deployment of Azure Log Analytics (OMS) on Petri.
In this article, I showed you how to schedule updates and check update compliance using Azure Update Management.
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