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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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## Policy assignment
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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 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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+ scope. This scope could range from a [ management group] ( ../management-groups/overview.md ) to an
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+ individual resource. The term * scope* refers to all the resources, resource groups, subscriptions,
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+ or management groups that the policy definition is assigned to. Policy assignments are inherited
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+ by all child resources. This design means that a policy applied to a resource group is also applied
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+ to resources in that resource group. However, you can exclude a 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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Like a policy assignment, an initiative assignment is an initiative definition assigned to a
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specific scope. Initiative assignments reduce the need to make several initiative definitions for
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- each scope. This scope could also range from a management group to a resource group .
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+ each scope. This scope could also range from a management group to an individual resource .
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Each initiative is assignable to different scopes. One initiative can be assigned to both
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** subscriptionA** and ** subscriptionB** .
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