Azure Arc-enabled servers Overview - Azure Arc | Microsoft Learn
Feb 26, 2026 · When you connect your machine to Azure Arc-enabled servers, you can perform many operational functions, just as you would with native Azure virtual machines. The following list …
Cloud-native governance and policy with Azure Arc-enabled servers
Aug 20, 2025 · Machine configuration uses Desired State Configuration (DSC) under the hood to check or set OS settings on VMs or Arc-enabled servers. For example, Azure Policy can audit if the …
How to Enable Azure Policy and Guest Configuration on Azure Arc-Enabled …
Feb 16, 2026 · Learn how to apply Azure Policy and Guest Configuration to Azure Arc-enabled servers for consistent compliance and governance across hybrid environments.
Deploy Guest Configuration | Microsoft Zero Trust
Security and IT teams must enable Defender for Servers Plan 2, assign managed identities, and deploy the machine configuration extension across Azure, Arc-enabled, and multicloud machines.
Azure Arc: Managing Azure Arc-enabled servers with Machine Configuration
Mar 3, 2025 · In my blog post contribution for this year’s Azure Spring Clean, we’ll explore how Azure Arc-enabled servers and Azure Machine Configuration (formerly known as Azure Policy Guest …
Azure Arc for Hyper-V: Practical Onboarding, VM Integration, and …
Sep 4, 2025 · Why Azure Arc for Hyper‑V? A quick practical framing Central inventory and RBAC: Arc lets you treat on‑prem Hyper‑V hosts and their VMs as first‑class Azure resources, enabling Azure …
Understand the guest configuration feature of Azure Policy
Feb 10, 2023 · Learn how Azure Policy uses the guest configuration feature to audit or configure settings inside virtual machines.
Deploy Azure Arc | Microsoft Zero Trust
Post-Deployment Enable Defender for Servers on the Arc-enabled machines. Configure guest configuration, update management, and vulnerability scanning. Monitor compliance and threat alerts …
Quickstart - Connect hybrid machine with Azure Arc-enabled servers ...
Jul 21, 2025 · Get started with Azure Arc-enabled servers to manage and govern your Windows and Linux machines hosted across on-premises, edge, and multicloud environments.
Apply Azure Policy to Azure Arc-enabled Servers in a Hybrid …
Jun 28, 2022 · Azure Policy Definitions showing Category list Logically, an Azure Key Vault policy won’t be relevant to an Arc-enabled Server, for example. Guest Configuration The Guest Configuration …
azure-docs/articles/governance/machine-configuration/overview
Nov 7, 2025 · The Audit policy definitions available for machine configuration include the Microsoft.HybridCompute/machines resource type. Any machines onboarded to Azure Arc-enabled …