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as-integy
Dec 19, 2023Copper Contributor
Azure Policy - Configure backup on virtual machines with a given tag
I wonder if somebody could sanity check something for me with this please in case it's something I could be missing. We have this existing policy configured in a customers tenant (https://www.aza...
Kidd_Ip
Oct 23, 2025MVP
The built-in Azure Policy “Configure backup on virtual machines with a given tag to an existing recovery services vault” (ID: 345fa903-145c-4fe1-8bcd-93ec2adccde8) uses a DeployIfNotExists effect and matches VMs based on:
- Tag name and value
- Region
- Image Publisher, Offer, and SKU
In your case, the VM uses the SKU:
2019-datacenter-smalldisk-g2,
which is not listed in the policy’s SKU array, even though similar SKUs like 2019-Datacenter-smalldisk and 2019-datacenter-gensecond are included.