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Excited to see this for on-premises environments. All of the feedback you showed strongly resonates with my local environment and experience.
Hoping to see it available for non-Azure Arc requirements. Is that on the roadmap?
Nothing is off the table. Hotpatch was once an Azure Edition-only feature. Now it's an on-prem WS2025 feature with Arc. We will constantly be evaluating customer needs for this feature as we go forward.
- Thanks Ned for responding. Unfortunately, off-prem related services/costs for the environments I'm steward of are denied due to managerial directive to keep all things on-prem concerning our systems/infrastructure. Just one of those things that I just have to accept... but do make it a constant reminder when opportunities arise. Still - will definitely be looking forward to playing with this in my homelab and making it a highlight of "see all this good we could be doing for ourselves?" in future talks with folks at work. Please say hi to and pet your dogs for me today. 😊
- Jeff-Woolsey
Microsoft
Hotpatching is available today if you're using Windows Server 2022 Azure Edition in Azure or on-premises with Azure Stack HCI. Starting with Windows Server 2025, we are introducing Arc-enabled hotpatching, so you have the option to enable hotpatching on Windows Server 2025 Standard/Datacenter edition for a monthly subscription running anywhere such as physical, virtual, or other clouds. Hotpatching will continue to be included at no additional charge if you use Windows Server 2025 Azure Edition in Azure or on-premises with Azure Stack HCI.- Thanks Jeff. Excited to see how this will help all systems admins. 😊 (and I'll just keep asking at work for access/funding to be able to improve things for my employer otherwise)
- VishalBajajCan you help us understand this better. What challenges you see if this is limited to Arc connected servers only ?
- Vishal - I wish I understood this better for myself. Unfortunately, I do not have current (and doubt future) managerial support or funding to connect on-premises systems under my care to a cloud service. I will definitely be making more requests and future cases for Azure Arc -- but I expect to be denied as I have in years past. Otherwise, I don't believe I would have any technical challenges here. Thanks to PowerShell, WAC, WSUS, GPOs, and other tooling I do my best in the meantime. Unfortunately there's no Get-Manager $Person | Set-Manager -ApproveCloudyThings:$true as of yet!
