Merge pull request #289849 from SnehaSudhirG/05Nov-OverviewUpdate

updated the image and removed info on retired services

Author: ttorble

articles/automation/media/overview/automation-overview.png

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Azure Automation overview
 description: This article tells what Azure Automation is and how to use it to automate the lifecycle of infrastructure and applications.
 services: automation
 keywords: azure automation, DSC, powershell, state configuration, update management, change tracking, DSC, inventory, runbooks, python, graphical
-ms.date: 10/25/2021
+ms.date: 11/05/2024
 ms.topic: overview
 ms.custom: linux-related-content
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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Automation is needed in three broad areas of cloud operations:
 
 Azure Automation delivers a cloud-based automation, operating system updates, and configuration service that supports consistent management across your Azure and non-Azure environments. It includes process automation, configuration management, update management, shared capabilities, and heterogeneous features.
 
-:::image type="content" source="./media/overview/automation-overview.png" alt-text="Diagram of Automation capabilities" border="true":::
+:::image type="content" source="./media/overview/automation-overview.png" alt-text="Diagram shows the Automation capabilities." lightbox="./media/overview/automation-overview.png"::: 
 
 There are several Azure services that can deliver the above requirements, where each service includes a set of capabilities and serves a role as a programmable platform to build cloud solutions. For example, Azure Bicep and Resource Manager provide a language to develop repeatable and consistent deployment templates for Azure resources. Azure Automation can process that template to deploy an Azure resource and then process a set of post-deployment configuration tasks.
 
@@ -34,23 +34,12 @@ Process automation supports the integration of Azure services and other third pa
 
 ## Configuration Management
 
-Configuration Management in Azure Automation is supported by two capabilities:
-
-* Change Tracking and Inventory
-* Azure Automation State Configuration
-
-### Change Tracking and Inventory
-
-[Change Tracking and Inventory](change-tracking/overview.md) combines functions to allow you to track Linux and Windows virtual machine and server infrastructure changes. The service supports change tracking across services, daemons, software, registry, and files in your environment to help you diagnose unwanted changes and raise alerts. Inventory support allows you to query in-guest resources for visibility into installed applications and other configuration items. Change Tracking & Inventory is now supported with the Azure Monitoring Agent version. [Learn more](change-tracking/overview-monitoring-agent.md).
+Configuration Management in Azure Automation is supported by Azure Automation State Configuration capability.
 
 ### Azure Automation State Configuration
 
 [Azure Automation State Configuration](automation-dsc-overview.md) is a cloud-based feature for PowerShell desired state configuration (DSC) that provides services for enterprise environments. Using this feature, you can manage your DSC resources in Azure Automation and apply configurations to virtual or physical machines from a DSC pull server in the Azure cloud.
 
-## Update Management
-
-Azure Automation includes the [Update Management](./update-management/overview.md) feature for Windows and Linux systems across hybrid environments. Update Management gives you visibility into update compliance across Azure and other clouds, and on-premises. The feature allows you to create scheduled deployments that orchestrate the installation of updates within a defined maintenance window. If an update shouldn't be installed on a machine, you can use Update Management functionality to exclude it from a deployment.
-
 ## Shared capabilities
 
 Azure Automation provides a number of shared capabilities, including shared resources, role-based access control, flexible scheduling, source control integration, auditing, and tagging.
@@ -88,7 +77,7 @@ Azure Automation supports management throughout the lifecycle of your infrastruc
 
 * **Schedule tasks** - stop VMs or services at night and turn on during the day, weekly or monthly recurring maintenance workflows.
 * **Build and deploy resources** - Deploy virtual machines across a hybrid environment using runbooks and Azure Resource Manager templates. Integrate into development tools, such as Jenkins and Azure DevOps.
-* **Periodic maintenance** - to execute tasks that need to be performed at set timed intervals like purging stale or old data, or reindex a SQL database.
+* **Periodic maintenance** - to execute tasks that need to be performed at set timed intervals like purging stale or old data, or reindexing a SQL database.
 * **Respond to alerts** - Orchestrate a response when cost-based, system-based, service-based, and/or resource utilization alerts are generated.
 * **Hybrid automation** - Manage or automate on-premises servers and services like SQL Server, Active Directory, SharePoint Server, etc.
 * **Azure resource lifecycle management** - for IaaS and PaaS services.