What's new in Azure Update Manager

Azure Update Manager helps you manage and govern updates for all your machines. You can monitor Windows and Linux update compliance across your deployments in Azure, on-premises, and on the other cloud platforms from a single dashboard. This article summarizes new releases and features in Azure Update Manager.

Public preview: Azure Update Manager now supports Hotpatching on Arc enabled servers. Learn more.

Azure Update Manager now supports CIS images along with 59 other popular images. For more information, see the latest list of supported images.

General Availability: Azure Update Manager now supports creating and managing pre and post events on scheduled maintenance configurations. Learn more.

Public preview: Azure Update Manager now supports Windows IoT Enterprise on Arc enabled servers. For more information, see supported Windows IoT enterprise releases.

General Availability: Azure Update Manager is now supported in Azure operated by 21Vianet. Learn more.

Azure Update Manager offers migration portal experience and automated migration scripts to move machines and schedules from Automation Update Management to Azure Update Manager. Learn more

The purpose of this new blade is to present information from Updates pivot instead of machines. It would be useful for Central IT admins, Security admins who care about vulnerabilities in the system and want to act on them by applying updates. Learn more.

Support for ubuntu pro 22.04 gen1 and gen2, redhat 8.8, centos-hpc 7.1 and 7.3, oracle8 has been added. For more information, see support matrix for the latest list of supported VM images.

Azure Update Manager (preview) is now supported in Azure operated by 21Vianet. Learn more

Migration scripts allow you to move all machines and schedules in an automation account from Automation Update Management to Azure Update Management in an automated fashion. Learn more.

The purpose of this new blade is to present information from Updates pivot instead of machines. It would be useful for Central IT admins, Security admins who care about vulnerabilities in the system and want to act on them by applying updates. Learn more.

Azure Update Manager allows you to create and manage pre and post events on scheduled maintenance configurations. Learn more.

Azure Update Manager now supports specialized VMs including the VMs created by Azure Migrate, Azure Backup, and Azure Site Recovery. Learn more.

Azure Update Manager is now Generally Available.

Update management center is now rebranded as Azure Update Manager.

Dynamic scope is an advanced capability of schedule patching. You can now create a group of machines based on a schedule and apply patches on those machines at scale.

Update Manager now supports generalized custom images, and a combination of offer, publisher, and SKU for Marketplace/PIR images. See the list of supported operating systems.

The limit on the number of subscriptions that you can manage to use the Update Manager portal has now been removed. You can now manage all your subscriptions using the Update Manager portal.

A new patch orchestration - Customer Managed Schedules (Preview) is introduced as a prerequisite to enable scheduled patching on Azure VMs. The new patch enables the Azure-orchestrated and BypassPlatformSafetyChecksOnUserSchedule VM properties on your behalf after receiving the consent. Learn more.

Update Manager now supports new five regions for Azure Arc-enabled servers. Learn more.

You can now enable periodic assessment for your machines at scale using Policy or from the portal.

• Learn more about supported regions.