In my Azure test environment I’m running several Windows and Linux servers. In this blog post I describe an easy and effective way to patch them. It only takes you a minute of configuring!
On a freshly installed Windows Server 2016 without patching there were 4 available updates (Azure template) :
I’ve created a new Update Deployment (go to the second tab) :
(Specify which type of updates you wish to deploy. Tip: create multiple deployment for different kind of updates)
In my case I install all availables updates every day at 05:00 PM. (test environment :-))
Just 2 b sure I’ve checked the status of Windows Updates inside the VM :
As you can see it’s very easy to update your VM’s (this works for Linux too!) running on Azure (Stack).