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Configure Update Management Using Azure Automation

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30 minutes

3 Learning Objectives

About this Hands-on Lab

This lab walks through the process of configuring Update Management using Azure Automation.

Learning Objectives

Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:

Add the Virtual Machines to Update Management

Add the BRADC1 and BRADC2 virtual machines to Azure Automation Update Management.

Create Saved Searches for Group Machines

Create a saved search computer group named Windows_Patch_Group_1 in the Log Analytics workspace that contains computers whose name ends with 2 using the below KQL query:
```
Heartbeat | distinct Computer | where split(Computer, ".", 0)[0] endswith "2"
```
Create a saved search computer group named Windows_Patch_Group_2 in the Log Analytics workspace that contains computers whose name does not end with 2 using the below KQL query:
```
Heartbeat | distinct Computer | where split(Computer, ".", 0)[0] !endswith "2"
```

Schedule Update Deployment

Schedule an update deployment for Windows_Patch_Group_1 computers to occur every Wednesday evening at 10PM.
Schedule an update deployment for Windows_Patch_Group_2 computers to occur every Thursday evening at 10PM.

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Scenario

You are a senior security engineer at Barrier Reef Audio, a company that focuses on generating text from speech using a range of high-quality audio equipment and machine learning.

You are responsible for automating security processes at Barrier Reef Audio, including the installation of security updates across the fleet of Windows servers.

You want to ensure that critical and security updates are automatically applied to all servers in the Barrier Reef Audio environment.

You decide to use Azure Automation Update Management to automate this process.

In this lab, you will:

Add the Virtual Machines to Update Management.
Create saved searches for group machines.
Schedule update deployment.

Lab Setup

Complete this lab using the Azure portal and the credentials provided.

If you get stuck, feel free to check out the lab objectives or the solution video. Good luck!

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