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Alert on Pending Updates
Hi, We've set up several onpremise servers with the Azure Arc agent, to allow us to manage updates via Azure Update Manager. I'd like to get a mail notification with pending updates before the maintenance is scheduled. Azure Update Manager provides a New alert rule (preview) feature that allows me to setup a new alert for pending updates easily. The issue is that it runs every 5 minutes, fires the alert, and sends the email every 5 minutes. Ideally this is sent before the maintenance schedule runs (every 2 weeks), so I know which updates will be applied before they get applied. Changing the frequency of evaluation can be changed to 1 day max, but that will trigger the message to be sent every day. I figured that I could edit the alert rule and change the Query type to Single event (preview), but not sure if that's the solution. When I try this, I cannot edit or save a query. No way to add something to the query and there's no save button: Any idea how I could trigger a Pending Update alert rule to run on a scheduled basis, eg every 2 weeks ? Thanks Best regards, Joeri MichielsAzure Local - Design the infrastructure - some bad design choices I have stumbled on
Hi. I wanted to share my lasted blog article where I touch on some of the bad design choices I have stumbled on when working with customers existing Azure Local deployments that broke down or in other ways behaved with poor performance or disruptions. https://www.chkja.dk/2025/07/16/azure-local-design-the-infrastructure/ I hope to inspire and feel free to share your knowledge here in the thread :)My Mistake: installing azure local OS On laptop
Let me begin by apologizing to all experienced tech community professionals who have posted numerous discussions resulting in numerous solutions. I should have known that to start a discussion you really need to be as succinct as you can be, not unlike creating a perfect prompt while submitting something to an AI model. I was unaware that my discussion needed to be approved before being available to all -how come AI doesn't do that approval? 7 hours later... A big thank you to the moderator of this Category. They really saved me by giving extra time to read and re-read my initial post. Ugh... My self-imposed punishment for being a knucklehead is to dig a little deeper. I'm doing that and I'm onto something. When I think I have a more complete set of instructions to do what I'm doing, I'll provide details and hopefully I will be self-aware of written and unwritten rules of the Tech Community Road In future posts
Update servers with Arc, but leave SCCM installed
We have multiple servers that we want to update with Arc instead of SCCM. Want to leave SCCM installed for reporting purposes. We found a few registry keys that point to the on-prem SCCM server. I've tried removing them, but they are reinstalled by the client after a reboot. Is there a clean way to disable this feature so that Arc handles all the monthly updates?Learning Azure with Ofek – Azure Arc
is a solution that simplifies hybrid environment management and it’s free. Azure Arc allows you to manage and govern on-premises resources and resources from other clouds like AWS and GCP directly within your Azure environment. You can connect physical servers, virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, and SQL Servers, and manage them as if they were native Azure resources. Azure Arc extends Azure capabilities to your on-premises and multi-cloud environments. It enables you to deploy services like Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, and Azure Monitor easily across environments. You can also centrally manage SQL Server with performance assessments, cloud backups, Azure authentication, and pay-as-you-go licensing. The big advantage is unified management of policies, security, updates, and monitoring from the same Azure interface. From my experience, Azure Arc is ideal for organizations operating in hybrid environments or those still in transition to the cloud. Feel free to reach out for any questions.
Can't install Azure ARC on multiple Server 2025 devices
I have multiple Server 2025 devices that when I click "Launch Azure Arc Setup" button on taskbar icon or "Azure Arc Setup" on start menu nothing happens. I then tried to download arcsetup.exe and it never advanced beyond the initializing Windows Installer screen. I got it to work on one server and 4-5 all have the same problem. Both physical and VM. Below are errors in the event log.
Exclude KB from the Update manager reports
Hi, is there a way to filter out a KB that we have excluded from our maintenance configs, so that it doesn't show up as a missing updates for servers on which we have assigned that maintenance config in the overview page? Or is the only way is to create our own custom workbook that will show this exclusion? Thank you in advance and don't hesitate if you have any questions
