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Support for Updates/One time Updates/Periodic assessments and Scheduled patching

Applies to: ✔️ Windows VMs ✔️ Linux VMs ✔️ On-premises environment ✔️ Azure Arc-enabled servers ✔️ Azure VMs.

Caution

This article references CentOS, a Linux distribution that is End Of Service (EOS) status. Azure Update Manager will soon cease to support it. Please consider your use and planning accordingly. For more information, see the CentOS End Of Service guidance.

This article details the Windows and Linux operating systems supported and system requirements for machines or servers managed by Azure Update Manager.

Azure Marketplace/PIR images

The Azure Marketplace image has the following attributes:

  • Publisher: The organization that creates the image. Examples are Canonical and MicrosoftWindowsServer.
  • Offer: The name of the group of related images created by the publisher. Examples are UbuntuServer and WindowsServer.
  • SKU: An instance of an offer, such as a major release of a distribution. Examples are 18.04LTS and 2019-Datacenter.
  • Version: The version number of an image SKU.

Update Manager supports the following operating system versions on VMs for all operations except automatic VM guest patching. You might experience failures if there are any configuration changes on the VMs, such as package or repository.

Note

Only x64 operating systems are currently supported. Neither ARM64 nor x86 are supported for any operating system.

Following is the list of supported images and no other marketplace images released by any other publisher are supported for use with Azure Update Manager.

Publisher Offer Plan Unsupported image(s)
aod win2019azpolicy win2019azpolicy
belindaczsro1588885355210 belvmsrv* belvmsrv*
bissantechnology1583581147809 bissan_secure_windows_server2019 secureserver2019
center-for-internet-security-inc cis-win-2016-stig cis-win-2016-stig
center-for-internet-security-inc cis-win-2019-stig cis-win-2019-stig
center-for-internet-security-inc cis-windows-server cis-windows-server2016-l*
center-for-internet-security-inc cis-windows-server-2012-r2-v2-2-1-l1 cis-ws2012-r2-l1
center-for-internet-security-inc cis-windows-server-2012-r2-v2-2-1-l2 cis-ws2012-r2-l2
center-for-internet-security-inc cis-windows-server-2016-v1-0-0-l1 cis-ws2016-l1
center-for-internet-security-inc cis-windows-server-2016-v1-0-0-l2 cis-ws2016-l2
center-for-internet-security-inc cis-windows-server-2019-v1-0-0-l1 cis-ws2019-l1
center-for-internet-security-inc cis-windows-server-2019-v1-0-0-l2 cis-ws2019-l2
center-for-internet-security-inc cis-windows-server-2022-l1 *
center-for-internet-security-inc cis-windows-server-2022-l2 *
center-for-internet-security-inc cis-windows-server2019-l*
center-for-internet-security-inc cis-windows-server2022-l*
center-for-internet-security-inc cis-windows-server-l*-azure-observability
center-for-internet-security-inc cis-windows-server2019-stig-gen1
cloud-infrastructure-services ad-dc-2016 ad-dc-2016
cloud-infrastructure-services ad-dc-2019 ad-dc-2019
cloud-infrastructure-services hpc2019-windows-server-2019 hpc2019-windows-server-2019
cloud-infrastructure-services servercore-2019 servercore-2019
cloud-infrastructure-services ad-dc-2022 ad-dc-2022
cloud-infrastructure-services sftp-2016 sftp-2016
cloud-infrastructure-services hmailserver hmailserver-email-server-2016
cloud-infrastructure-services rds-farm-2019 rds-farm-2019
cognosys sql-server-2016-sp2-std-win2016-debug-utilities sql-server-2016-sp2-std-win2016-debug-utilities
esri arcgis-enterprise* byol*
esri pro-byol pro-byol-*
filemagellc filemage-gateway-vm-win filemage-gateway-vm-win-*
microsoft-dsvm dsvm-win-2019 *
microsoft-dsvm dsvm-win-2022 *
microsoft-dsvm dsvm-windows *
microsoftazuresiterecovery process-server windows-2012-r2-datacenter
microsoftbiztalkserver biztalk-server *
microsoftdynamicsax dynamics *
microsoftdynamicsnav dynamicsnav 2017
microsoftpowerbi * *
microsoftsharepoint microsoftsharepointserver *
microsoftsqlserver * *
microsoftvisualstudio *-ws2016
microsoftvisualstudio *-ws2019
microsoftvisualstudio *-ws2022
microsoftvisualstudio visualstudio* *-ws2012r2
microsoftwindowsserver 2016-datacenter-hub
microsoftwindowsserver windows-cvm *
microsoftwindowsserver windowsserver *
microsoftwindowsserver windowsserver-gen2preview *
microsoftwindowsserver windowsserver-hub 2012-r2-datacenter-hub
microsoftwindowsserver windowsserverdotnet *
microsoftwindowsserver windowsserversemiannual *
microsoftwindowsserver windowsserverupgrade *
microsoftwindowsserverhpcpack windowsserverhpcpack *
ntegralinc1586961136942 ntg_windows_datacenter_2019 ntg_windows_server_2019
outsystems os11-vm-baseimage platformserver
southrivertech1586314123192 tn-ent-payg tnentpayg*
southrivertech1586314123192 tn-sftp-payg tnsftppayg*
tidalmediainc windows-server-2022-datacenter windows-server-2022-datacenter
veeam office365backup veeamoffice365backup
veeam veeam-backup-replication veeam-backup-replication-v*

Custom images

Custom images (including images uploaded to Azure Compute gallery) which are created from below listed operating systems are supported for all Azure Update Manager operations (on-demand operations and customer managed schedules). For instructions on how to use Azure Update Manager to manage updates on VMs created from custom images, see Manage updates for custom images.

Windows operating systems
Windows Server 2025
Windows Server 2022
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2012

Azure Arc-enabled servers

The following table lists the operating systems supported on Azure Arc-enabled servers.

Operating system
Alma Linux 9
Amazon Linux 2 (x64)
Amazon Linux 2023
Debian 10 and 11
Oracle 7.x, 8.x
Oracle Linux 9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, 8, 9 (x64)
Rocky Linux 8, 9
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 and 15 (x64)
Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, and 22.04 LTS
Windows Server 2012 R2 and higher (including Server Core)

Windows IoT Enterprise on Arc enabled servers (preview)

Windows Enterprise systems
Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021
Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2019
Windows 11 IoT Enterprise, version 23H2
Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024

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