By Jisu Park | Aaron Woods | George Enninful
Azure Arc extends Azure’s powerful capabilities to resources running outside Azure - across on-premises, multi-cloud, and edge environments. The Azure Arc portal acts as the central hub for discovering, onboarding, organizing, and managing these external resources just like native Azure assets.
As hybrid and multi-cloud adoption accelerates, we know that simplicity and clarity are critical. That’s why we’ve focused on making the Azure Arc experience more intuitive and actionable. Today, we’re excited to introduce a major refresh of the Azure Arc portal, designed to make it easier to get started, onboard resources, and manage your Arc-enabled environments at scale.
What’s New in the Azure Arc Portal?
- Improved Learnability & Discoverability
Getting started with Azure Arc used to feel complex because of the wide range of supported resource types and onboarding methods. We’ve addressed this challenge with a redesigned experience:
- Redesigned Landing Page: The new portal makes onboarding options easier to compare side by side, so you can quickly identify the path that best fits your scenario.
- Guided Onboarding: A short, interactive questionnaire now provides tailored recommendations based on your needs - whether you’re onboarding just a few machines or scaling across multiple environments. This creates a more contextual and user-friendly entry point that helps you move from exploration to onboarding with confidence.
- Refreshed Navigation: Based on research into the most common jobs users are trying to accomplish, we reorganized the menu bar into clearer groups. This makes navigation more intuitive and helps you discover key Arc capabilities faster.
- Unified Machine Onboarding
Previously, onboarding existing servers or virtual machines required choosing from five different methods - often before knowing which was right for your scenario. We’ve streamlined that experience:
- Single, Unified Onboarding Flow: Instead of asking you to make decisions upfront, the new flow captures contextual information along the way. This results in a more consistent and intuitive onboarding experience that works smoothly across all machine types and environments.
- More Actionable Arc Portal Dashboards
Once your resources are onboarded, managing them effectively is the next step. Our dashboards have been redesigned to move beyond simple visibility and provide actionable insights:
- Adaptive Summary: Service capability cards now respond to your current configuration and surface smart call-to-action prompts to guide you forward in your Arc journey.
- Actionable Control Panel: Tiles for Agent Connectivity, Secure Score, and Policy Compliance have been updated for better readability and faster interpretation. Enhanced call-to-action logic transforms the Control Panel into a true action center - helping you quickly move from visibility to meaningful action.
Why This Matters
Hybrid and multi-cloud environments are inherently complex, but managing them doesn’t have to be. These updates make Azure Arc onboarding and management more intuitive, actionable, and scalable, so you can focus on delivering business value instead of wrestling with complexity.
Ready to Explore?
Sign in to the Azure Arc portal to experience the latest updates. For additional guidance, visit the Azure Arc documentation or start with the Plan and deploy Azure Arc-enabled servers at scale
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