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

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VishalBajaj
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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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Dec 04, 2023

Hello Dolinhas , 

 

The preview you were seeing was related to azure Update Manager UI in preview and must have gone away. Regarding the other questions:

1. How will I know when the update installed and the server needs a reboot (this be for the scheduled Un/Planned Baselines restart months)? I want to set a Task Schedule task to reboot it during an agreed maintenance windows with my users.

<> Update installation will follow the normal maintenance window set in the configuration. For more details review: Automatic VM Guest Patching for Azure VMs - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Learn

 

2. When exactly is the update being installed (date/time)? Is there way to alert me? 

<> To be alerted when an update has just happened, you may use Azure monitor on top of Azure resource graph (help with how to do this is from Az monitor, ARG):https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/alerts/alerts-payload-samples

 

3. Is it possible to use SCCM to manage hotpatching patches on these new W2K22 Images?

<> SCCM is not a fully supported scenario for now.