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description : Azure Policy is a service in Azure, that you use to create, assign and, manage policy definitions in your Azure environment.
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ms.date : 11/25/2019
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ms.topic : overview
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+ ms:custom : fasttrack-edit
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# What is Azure Policy?
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A policy assignment is a policy definition that has been assigned to take place within a specific
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scope. This scope could range from a [ management group] ( ../management-groups/overview.md ) to a
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- resource group. The term * scope* refers to all the resource groups, subscriptions, or management
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- groups that the policy definition is assigned to. Policy assignments are inherited by all child
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- resources. This design means that a policy applied to a resource group is also applied to resources
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- in that resource group. However, you can exclude a subscope from the policy assignment.
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+ resource group or an individual resource. The term * scope* refers to all the resources, resource
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+ groups, subscriptions, or management groups that the policy definition is assigned to. Policy
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+ assignments are inherited by all child resources. This design means that a policy applied to a
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+ resource group is also applied to resources in that resource group. However, you can exclude a
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+ subscope from the policy assignment.
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For example, at the subscription scope, you can assign a policy that prevents the creation of
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networking resources. You could exclude a resource group in that subscription that is intended for
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- [ Assign a policy definition using the portal] ( ./assign-policy-portal.md ) .
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- [ Assign a policy definition using the Azure CLI] ( ./assign-policy-azurecli.md ) .
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- - [ Assign a policy definition using PowerShell] ( ./assign-policy-powershell.md ) .
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+ - [ Assign a policy definition using PowerShell] ( ./assign-policy-powershell.md ) .
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