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Automated patching AVD multi-session hosts
Hello community, We are using Azure Automation Update Management currently to patch Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) hosts. It's marked to retire on 31st of august 2024 and it's advised to migrate to A...
Azure Automation Update Management didn't support Windows 10/11 either.
But in fact I also see no other convenient way to handle the updates while scaling AVD SessionHosts and have a fixed maintenance window, so we have to migrate to it. Intune lacks so many features for us on this side.
The new Azure Update Manager also updates Windows 10 and 11 machines even though it is not officially supported. The CMDlets to automate the update assignments seem to be buggy at the moment unfortunately.
A downside of the new Update Manager is that if you have machines in availability sets they won't get patched parallel and it would exceed every maintenance window.
But in fact I also see no other convenient way to handle the updates while scaling AVD SessionHosts and have a fixed maintenance window, so we have to migrate to it. Intune lacks so many features for us on this side.
The new Azure Update Manager also updates Windows 10 and 11 machines even though it is not officially supported. The CMDlets to automate the update assignments seem to be buggy at the moment unfortunately.
A downside of the new Update Manager is that if you have machines in availability sets they won't get patched parallel and it would exceed every maintenance window.
I'm also in the same position. What did you do in the end. Currently working on moving our avd hosts to intune, and I assume we will need to create a configuration profile for windows update for business. To be honest I think it's quite poor that they haven't added support for avd hosts.
