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# About Update management center (preview)
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Update management center (preview) is a unified service to help manage and govern updates for all your machines. You can monitor Windows and Linux update compliance across your deployments in Azure, on-premises, and on the other cloud platforms from a single dashboard. Using Update management center (preview), you can make updates in real-time or schedule them within a defined maintenance window.
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Update management center (preview) is a unified service to help manage and govern updates for all your machines. You can monitor Windows and Linux update compliance across your deployments in Azure, on-premises, and on the other cloud platforms from a single dashboard. In addition, you can use the Update management center (preview) to make real-time updates or schedule them within a defined maintenance window.
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You can use the update management center (preview) in Azure to:
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- Helps secure machines with new ways of patching such as [automatic VM guest patching](../virtual-machines/automatic-vm-guest-patching.md) in Azure, [hotpatching](../automanage/automanage-hotpatch.md) or custom maintenance schedules.
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- Sync patch cycles in relation to patch Tuesday—the unofficial term for Microsoft's scheduled security fix release on every second Tuesday of each month.
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The following diagram illustrates how update management center (preview) assesses and applies updates to all Azure machines and Arc-enabled servers for both Windows and Linux.
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-[Azure virtual machine Windows agent](../virtual-machines/extensions/agent-windows.md) or [Azure virtual machine Linux agent](../virtual-machines/extensions/agent-linux.md) for Azure VMs.
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-[Azure arc-enabled servers agent](../azure-arc/servers/agent-overview.md) for non-Azure Linux and Windows machines or physical servers.
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The extension agent installation and configuration is managed by update management center (preview) and there's no manual intervention required as long as the Azure VM agent or Azure Arc-enabled server agent is functional. The update management center (preview) extension runs code locally on the machine to interact with the operating system, and it includes:
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The extension agent installation and configuration are managed by the update management center (preview). There's no manual intervention required as long as the Azure VM agent or Azure Arc-enabled server agent is functional. The update management center (preview) extension runs code locally on the machine to interact with the operating system, and it includes:
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- Retrieving the assessment information about status of system updates for it specified by the Windows Update client or Linux package manager.
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- Initiating the download and installation of approved updates with Windows Update client or Linux package manager.
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|Azure VM | [Azure Virtual Machine Contributor](../role-based-access-control/built-in-roles.md#virtual-machine-contributor) or Azure [Owner](../role-based-access-control/built-in-roles.md#owner).
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Arc enabled server | [Azure Connected Machine Resource Administrator](../azure-arc/servers/security-overview.md#identity-and-access-control).
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### Permissions
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You need the following permissions to create and manage update deployments. The following table shows the permissions needed when using update management center (preview).
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You need the following permissions to create and manage update deployments. The following table shows the permissions needed when using the update management center (preview).
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**Actions** |**Permission** |**Scope** |
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|Read permission for Maintenance updates resource |*Microsoft.Maintenance/updates/read*|Machine |
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|Read permission for Maintenance apply updates resource |*Microsoft.Maintenance/applyUpdates/read*|Machine |
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### Network planning
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To prepare your network to support update management center (preview), you may need to configure some infrastructure components.
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Update management center (preview) supports Azure VMs created using Azure Marketplace images, where the virtual machine agent is already included in the Azure Marketplace image.
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## Next steps
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-[View updates for single machine](view-updates.md)
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-[Deploy updates now (on-demand) for single machine](deploy-updates.md)
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