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Clarify that possible policy assignment scopes include resources
This PR updates the description of Azure Policy assignments to clarify that a single resource is an allowable scope for a policy assignment.
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articles/governance/policy/overview.md

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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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# 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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