Last Update: Sep 04, 2024 | Published: May 30, 2017
In today’s Ask the Admin, I will show you how to configure Operations Management Suite (OMS) Update Compliance.
Microsoft’s OMS, previously known as Azure Operational Insights, is a cloud-based platform for collecting large amounts of telemetry data from devices. It helps to provide greater insight into your environment and operations. While not a replacement for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), it is useful where organizations would struggle to provision the necessary on-site infrastructure to store and collect the required amounts of data.
OMS is made up of different solutions, which can be added to workspaces to collect data and provide information on the workspace dashboard. The Update Compliance solution provides information on the Windows patches installed on each connected device. OMS Update Compliance is a useful companion to Windows Update for Business (WUfB) in Windows 10 because WUfB does not provide the comprehensive reporting of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).
For more information on OMS, see What Is Azure Operational Insights? and On Board Servers to Azure Operational Insights on the Petri IT Knowledgebase.
The instructions that follow will show you how to set up an OMS workspace and how to set up the OMS Update Compliance solution.
The first step is to set up the Update Compliance solution in OMS.
The Update Compliance solution will now be visible in your workspace.
To enroll devices to Update Compliance, you will need a subscription ID. This is a unique number that the machines you want to enroll will use to identify your OMS tenant.
Windows uses the Commercial ID Key to identify the OMS workspace. There are two ways to configure Windows 10 with the Commercial ID Key:
In this example, I will use local policy. In a domain environment, the Commercial ID Key can be configured using Group Policy. For more information on working with Group Policy in an Active Directory environment, see Create and Link a Group Policy Object in Active Directory on Petri.
It takes approximately 48 hours for information to appear in the OMS portal.
In this article, I showed you how to configure the Update Compliance solution in OMS and how to enroll a Windows 10 device to the OMS tenant.