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lfk73
Jan 30, 2023Brass Contributor
Azure VM's patching
Can someone clear something up for me. I had a person tell me today that Azure Virtual machines in their tenancy (basically 2 x Windows 2019 Servers one running SQL) are automatically patched by Mi...
tommykneetz
Jan 30, 2023Iron Contributor
Hi,
by default Microsoft is not patching your VMs. If you deploy VMs (its IaaS) you are responsible...
If you would use Azure SQL oder Managed Instance for example (its PaaS) than you have no access to the windows machines under your sql service. Here MS will update Windows and SQL...
Azure only offer IaaS and Paas..
But there is an Feature called Autopatching: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/automatic-vm-guest-patching - with that serice you can enable patching by MS
by default Microsoft is not patching your VMs. If you deploy VMs (its IaaS) you are responsible...
If you would use Azure SQL oder Managed Instance for example (its PaaS) than you have no access to the windows machines under your sql service. Here MS will update Windows and SQL...
Azure only offer IaaS and Paas..
But there is an Feature called Autopatching: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/automatic-vm-guest-patching - with that serice you can enable patching by MS