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Simplify Windows Server management in Azure with Automanage & Hotpatch

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 https://aka.ms/wsonazure

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