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We begin here on the home page of the Microsoft Azure portal. You can

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search for this up here. Just say Automanage. I've already done that, and

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I have it right here Automanage ‑ Azure machine. It comes up with this

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blade, Automanage ‑ Azure machine best practices. And if I want to enable

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this arc‑enabled server,

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I come right over here to where it says Enable on existing

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machine. Click on it, and I have three different options,

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Azure Best Practices ‑ Production,

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Azure Best Practices ‑ Dev / Test, and I can actually create a

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custom profile to tell it exactly of all the features that I

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want it to do for this custom profile.

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I'm going to take Azure Best Practices ‑ Production and come down here

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to where it says Select machines and click on it.

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I have two machines inside of here, an Azure VM, that was

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installed to show the Windows Server Datacenter: Azure Edition.

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It's right here. I'm going to select this,

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click on Select, and then simply click down here where it says

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Enable, and there we have it. I'm going to click on Refresh, and

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we see the Status is In progress,

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meaning that it is connecting to our local on‑premises machine,

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setting this up so we can have this under this profile of Azure Best

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Practices ‑ Production. And we can go to our server right here. And a

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lot of these things you see on the left‑hand side are automatically

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going to be managed.

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Let's go back to Automanage right here. We're going to say Enable on

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existing machine, and so we know what these profiles contain.

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I'm going to come here to where it says View Azure Best

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Practices profile. Click on it. You should be informed

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that Arc servers don't do backup, don't do the security center,

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don't do the anti‑malware, the guest configuration or the boot diagnostics.

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However,

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it does a lot of these, and I'm going to go through these one by

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one. The Machines Insights Monitoring monitors for the

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performance and health of your machines.

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It can tell you the running processes,

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the dependencies on other resources, and gives you an option to learn more if

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you wanted to learn more about Automanage. Update Management,

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we can check on this, and this keeps track of the updates for the machine.

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So, through this interface, we can access the status of available updates and

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let Microsoft Azure take care of these updates because, again,

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it's under Automanage,

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meaning that we don't have to come in here all the time to do what we need to

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do to our server under our normal management processes.

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Change Tracking and Inventory.

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So if there were any changes to this, it's going to track them.

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If there's any inventory within this virtual machine,

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it's going to track that. And again,

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we leave it up to Microsoft Azure to tell us what the best

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practices are, making your life easier.

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The Azure Automation Account,

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we've put one in there called Gary Grudzinskas, and this is an

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account that keeps track of all the different changes we have

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there. The Log Analytics Workspace, this is a place that stores

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the log data for our log analytics,

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which is basically an Azure resource and a container where the data is

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collected, aggregated, and has a boundary on it for administration.

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I'm going to go ahead and click on OK.

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So that is how you enable Automanage best practices within Microsoft

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Azure for our Windows Server 2022 datacenter that we have on‑premises and connected through the Azure Arc.