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Author: v-ccolin

articles/automation/automation-tutorial-installed-software.md

@@ -3,14 +3,16 @@ title: Discover what software is installed on your VMs with Azure Automation | M
 description: This article describes the software installed on VMs across your environment.
 services: automation
 keywords: inventory, automation, change tracking
-ms.date: 04/11/2018
+ms.date: 10/24/2024
 ms.topic: tutorial
 ms.subservice: change-inventory-management
 ms.custom: mvc
 ms.service: azure-automation
 ---
 # Discover what software is installed on your VMs
 
+[!INCLUDE [./log-analytics-retirement-announcement.md](./includes/log-analytics-retirement-announcement.md)]
+
 In this tutorial, you learn how to use the Azure Automation Change Tracking and Inventory feature to find out what software is installed in your environment. You can collect and view inventory for software, files, Linux daemons, Windows services, and Windows Registry keys on your computers. Tracking the configurations of your machines can help you pinpoint operational issues across your environment and better understand the state of your machines.
 
 In this tutorial you learn how to:

articles/automation/change-tracking/enable-from-automation-account.md

@@ -3,15 +3,14 @@ title: Enable Azure Automation Change Tracking and Inventory from Automation acc
 description: This article tells how to enable Change Tracking and Inventory from an Automation account.
 services: automation
 ms.subservice: change-inventory-management
-ms.date: 09/09/2024
+ms.date: 10/24/2024
 ms.topic: how-to
 ms.service: azure-automation
 ---
 
 # Enable Change Tracking and Inventory from an Automation account
 
-> [!Important]
-> Change Tracking and Inventory using Log Analytics agent has retired on **31 August 2024** and we recommend that you use Azure Monitoring Agent as the new supporting agent. Follow the guidelines for  [migration from Change Tracking and inventory using Log Analytics to Change Tracking and inventory using Azure Monitoring Agent version](guidance-migration-log-analytics-monitoring-agent.md).
+[!INCLUDE [./log-analytics-retirement-announcement.md](../includes/log-analytics-retirement-announcement.md)]
 
 This article describes how you can use your Automation account to enable [Change Tracking and Inventory](overview.md) for VMs in your environment. To enable Azure VMs at scale, you must enable an existing VM using Change Tracking and Inventory.
 

articles/automation/change-tracking/enable-from-portal.md

@@ -3,15 +3,14 @@ title: Enable Azure Automation Change Tracking and Inventory from the Azure port
 description: This article tells how to enable the Change Tracking and Inventory feature from the Azure portal.
 services: automation
 ms.subservice: change-inventory-management
-ms.date: 09/09/2024
+ms.date: 10/24/2024
 ms.topic: how-to
 ms.service: azure-automation
 ---
 
 # Enable Change Tracking and Inventory from Azure portal
 
-> [!Important]
-> Change Tracking and Inventory using Log Analytics agent has retired on **31 August 2024** and we recommend that you use Azure Monitoring Agent as the new supporting agent. Follow the guidelines for  [migration from Change Tracking and inventory using Log Analytics to Change Tracking and inventory using Azure Monitoring Agent version](guidance-migration-log-analytics-monitoring-agent.md).
+[!INCLUDE [./log-analytics-retirement-announcement.md](../includes/log-analytics-retirement-announcement.md)]
 
 This article describes how you can enable [Change Tracking and Inventory](overview.md) for one or more Azure VMs in the Azure portal. To enable Azure VMs at scale, you must enable an existing VM using Change Tracking and Inventory.
 

articles/automation/change-tracking/enable-from-runbook.md

@@ -4,14 +4,13 @@ description: This article tells how to enable Change Tracking and Inventory from
 services: automation
 ms.subservice: change-inventory-management
 ms.topic: how-to
-ms.date: 09/09/2024
+ms.date: 10/24/2024
 ms.service: azure-automation
 ---
 
 # Enable Change Tracking and Inventory from a runbook
 
-> [!Important]
-> Change Tracking and Inventory using Log Analytics agent has retired on **31 August 2024** and we recommend that you use Azure Monitoring Agent as the new supporting agent. Follow the guidelines for  [migration from Change Tracking and inventory using Log Analytics to Change Tracking and inventory using Azure Monitoring Agent version](guidance-migration-log-analytics-monitoring-agent.md).
+[!INCLUDE [./log-analytics-retirement-announcement.md](../includes/log-analytics-retirement-announcement.md)]
 
 This article describes how you can use a runbook to enable [Change Tracking and Inventory](overview.md) for VMs in your environment. To enable Azure VMs at scale, you must enable an existing VM using Change Tracking and Inventory.
 

articles/automation/change-tracking/enable-from-vm.md

@@ -3,13 +3,15 @@ title: Enable Azure Automation Change Tracking and Inventory from an Azure VM
 description: This article tells how to enable Change Tracking and Inventory from an Azure VM.
 services: automation
 ms.subservice: change-inventory-management
-ms.date: 09/09/2024
+ms.date: 10/24/2024
 ms.topic: how-to
 ms.service: azure-automation
 ---
 
 # Enable Change Tracking and Inventory from an Azure VM
 
+[!INCLUDE [./log-analytics-retirement-announcement.md](../includes/log-analytics-retirement-announcement.md)]
+
 This article describes how you can use an Azure VM to enable [Change Tracking and Inventory](overview.md) on other machines. To enable Azure VMs at scale, you must enable an existing VM using Change Tracking and Inventory.
 
 > [!NOTE]

articles/backup/backup-support-matrix-iaas.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: Support matrix for Azure VM backups
 description: Get a summary of support settings and limitations for backing up Azure VMs by using the Azure Backup service.
 ms.topic: reference
-ms.date: 10/17/2024
+ms.date: 10/24/2024
 ms.custom: references_regions, linux-related-content
 ms.reviewer: nikhilsarode
 ms.service: azure-backup
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ Shared storage| Backing up VMs by using Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) or Scale-Ou
 <a name="ultra-disk-backup">Ultra disks</a> | Supported with [Enhanced policy](backup-azure-vms-enhanced-policy.md).[Learn about the disk considerations for Azure VM](/azure/virtual-machines/disks-types#ultra-disk-limitations).      <br><br>    - Configuration of Ultra disk protection is supported via Recovery Services vault and via virtual machine blade.        <br><br>    - File-level restore is currently not supported for machines using Ultra disks. <br><br>   - GRS vaults and Cross-Region Restore are currently supported in the following regions for machines using Ultra Disks: Southeast Asia, East Asia, North Europe, West Europe, East US, West US, and West US 3.
 <a name="premium-ssd-v2-backup">Premium SSD v2</a> | Supported with [Enhanced policy](backup-azure-vms-enhanced-policy.md). [Learn about the disk considerations for Azure VM](/azure/virtual-machines/disks-types#regional-availability).     <br><br>    - Configuration of Premium SSD v2 disk protection is supported via Recovery Services vault and via virtual machine blade.       <br><br>    - File-level restore is currently not supported for machines using Premium SSD v2 disks.      <br><br>    - GRS vaults and Cross-Region Restore are currently supported in the following regions for machines using Premium SSDv2 Disks: Southeast Asia, East Asia, North Europe, West Europe, East US, West US, and West US 3. 
 [Temporary disks](/azure/virtual-machines/managed-disks-overview#temporary-disk) | Azure Backup doesn't back up temporary disks.
-NVMe/[ephemeral disks](/azure/virtual-machines/ephemeral-os-disks) | Not supported.
+NVMe/[ephemeral disks](/azure/virtual-machines/ephemeral-os-disks) | Supported.
 [Resilient File System (ReFS)](/windows-server/storage/refs/refs-overview) restore | Supported. Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) supports app-consistent backups on ReFS.
 Dynamic disk with spanned or striped volumes | Supported, unless you enable the selective disk feature on an Azure VM.
 VMs with encryption at host | Supported