Event details

Managing Windows Server environments has never meant relying on a single tool and that choice is only expanding. Explore Windows Server roadmap priorities and tooling investments including Azure Arc and the System Center suite. Discover what Microsoft is prioritizing and why. Hear directly from the team shaping these investments and share feedback that influences direction. The goal is clarity on where server management is headed and confidence in the tools and platform choices that get you there.

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Questions can be posted in advance and throughout event week. Drop yours in the comments below.

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Pearl-Angeles
Updated May 08, 2026

3 Comments

  • Heather_Poulsen's avatar
    Heather_Poulsen
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    May 11, 2026

    Thanks for joining us! We hope you enjoyed this session. We’ll continue to answer questions here in the chat for the rest of the hour and we’ll check back through the end of the week. If you missed the live broadcast, don’t worry – you can watch it on demand.

    We look forward to bringing you more great Windows Server Summit sessions tomorrow. Visit https://aka.ms/WindowsServerSummit to see the full agenda.

    Also, what do you like about the Windows Server Summit so far? Share your feedback here and help shape the direction of future events on the Tech Community!

     

  • Joel Nentwich's avatar
    Joel Nentwich
    Copper Contributor
    May 11, 2026

    My team went through MS ARC training.  The trainer stated the update manager was just a orchestrator.  It calls the patch management that is configured on the machine.  I.E. If WSUS was configured to be the patch management system for a server, update manager would just use WSUS to check for updates and apply updates.  

    An announcement has been made that WSUS is deprecated. SCCM relays on WSUS to be the patch repo.  Update manager is an orchestrator.  The question is, if we are using ARC with update manager what should be the patch repo?  Do we need to run an on-prem WSUS server so update manager has a place to install patches from?