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Public Preview: Auto agent upgrade for Azure Arc-enabled servers

Aurnov_Chattopadhyay

Microsoft

Aug 12, 2025

Seamlessly keep the Azure Connected Machine agent up to date for the latest server management capabilities and fixes

We are excited to announce the Public Preview of Auto Agent Upgrade for Azure Arc-enabled servers. This feature is a major leap forward in simplifying agent lifecycle management across hybrid environ...

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justinchen

Microsoft

Aug 22, 2025

That’s interesting. There shouldn’t be a difference between running the scheduled task manually and it running on its own. What agent version was the machine running on prior to the successful upgrade? Is this a Windows machine? What does the "Last Run Result" and "Last Run Time" say in Task Scheduler?

Sharan

Copper Contributor

Aug 29, 2025

This is very likely the "Internet Explorer - First Run" issue with PowerShell. Since the task is executing under SYSTEM privileges and basic parsing is not used in PowerShell when downloading the agent, it fails to execute completely.

Executing the same command defined in the scheduled task as an administrator will work without issues.