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Hotpatching is now available for Windows Server VMs on Azure with Desktop Experience!

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Jul 18, 2023
We’re excited to announce the General Availability of Hotpatching on Windows Server 2022 Datacenter: Azure Edition VMs with Desktop Experience. This fulfills one of our biggest requests from customer...
Updated Jul 18, 2023
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Aug 07, 2023

Karl-WE  Hotpatching is available only on the new OS images of Azure Edition with GUI (Desktop Experience). To benefit from this release, you would have to create new VMs using the released images. There is no in-place upgrade for existing Azure Edition VMs with UI. Note Hotpatching is available on all Azure Edition Core images since February 2022.