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March 22nd, 2024 update: This minor build update makes quality improvements for the remote desktop tool and Azure Arc onboarding.  If you are having challenges with these scenarios, please ensure you...
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Apr 08, 2024


Arc Enabled VMs onboarded via WAC, will fail to apply the Azure Policy
The value properties.OSName is "windows" instead of "Windows

Error of Azure Policy application / remediation:

 



Remediation:
This is one of the issues fixed in the hotpatch 1.5.2403.08001.

If you are affected by this issue
- download the latest patch (DL on the top of this article or aka.ms/wacdownload
- upgrade WAC to 1.5.2403.08001

- for best experience, based on own experiences, after applying the hotpatch:

-- restart WAC gateway service (ServerManagementGatewayService) once, via
---  Remote PowerShell > Enter-PSSession wacgw.contoso.com > restart-service ServerManagementGatewayService -Force
--- Server Manager > select WAC GW from Servers list > scroll down to Services section, search for service ServerManagementGatewayService in the full text search

-- delete your Edge Browser Cache

- Use PowerShell or WAC to offboard affected Arc-Enabled Servers

-- WAC: navigate to the affected resource > Settings > Arc > Disconnect. This will uninstall the agent and delete the Arc Resource (this is important!).
-- Wait until finished

-- Reconnect