Simplify Windows Server management in Azure with Automanage & Hotpatch

Simplified management of Windows Server with Automanage and Hotpatch capabilities. Automanage in Azure is a unified solution to automate operations, apply consistent best practices, and enforce policies on the servers you manage via Azure and Azure Arc. Use Hotpatch capabilities for Windows Server Azure Edition VMs to speed up deployment of updates and minimize reboots, so you can apply security updates faster.
Lead engineer for the Azure control plane, Dean Wells, joins Jeremy Chapman to share updates to Windows Server.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
01:34 - Automanage capabilities
03:26 - Behind Machine Configuration setting
05:00 - Steps to get new or existing servers to Automanaged state
06:22 - Correct a non-conformant state
08:17 - Hotpatch capabilities
11:56 - Wrap up
► Link References:
More about running Windows Server on Azure at aka.ms/wsonazure
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[@bhushangawale3252]

Great video, thanks for sharing. It would have also been great if insights about DSC configurations were included to showcase drift detection capabilities using auto-manage or maybe a separate video for later.

[@luistheitguy]

Awesome ! Thanks for sharing !!!!

[@MSFTMechanics]

Thanks for watching! Glad to help.

[@MiVentanaVirtualTI]

good video thank for you information

[@tharagz08]

Greater feature parity between Azure hosted VMs as well as Arc machines would be really helpful. Love to see the direction the service is going though.

[@MSFTMechanics]

Thanks for taking the time to comment and glad you like the direction!

[@ravz1983]

When would you have to use Reboot if required? If its never needed are their any advantages of using it?

[@MSFTMechanics]

There are months where a restart is still required. The graphic in the video actually shows the months from 2022 with and without a required restart.

[@The_Blackshield]

0.07 - "preformed", shouldn't it be performed? Unless you're using a preformed solution, you'd still need it to be performed.

[@MSFTMechanics]

Good catch, I slightly mispronounced "perform" -Jeremy

[@The_Blackshield]

@@MSFTMechanics It's the spelling on the front page of what you're showing.