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title: Archive for What's new with Azure Arc-enabled servers agent
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description: The What's new release notes in the Overview section for Azure Arc-enabled servers agent contains six months of activity. Thereafter, the items are removed from the main article and put into this article.
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ms.topic: overview
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# Archive for What's new with Azure Arc-enabled servers agent
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The primary [What's new in Azure Arc-enabled servers agent?](agent-release-notes.md) article contains updates for the last six months, while this article contains all the older information.
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The Azure Arc-enabled servers Connected Machine agent receives improvements on an ongoing basis. This article provides you with information about:
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- Previous releases
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- Known issues
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- Bug fixes
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## March 2021
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Version 1.4
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### New features
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- Added support for private endpoints, which is currently in limited preview.
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- Expanded list of exit codes for azcmagent.
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- Agent configuration parameters can now be read from a file with the `--config` parameter.
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- Collect new instance metadata to determine if Microsoft SQL Server is installed on the server
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### Fixed
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Network endpoint checks are now faster.
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## December 2020
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Version: 1.3
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### New features
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Added support for Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.
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### Fixed
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Resolved issue preventing the Custom Script Extension on Linux from installing successfully.
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## November 2020
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Version: 1.2
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Resolved issue where proxy configuration could be lost after upgrade on RPM-based distributions.
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## October 2020
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Version: 1.1
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### Fixed
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- Fixed proxy script to handle alternate GC daemon unit file location.
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- GuestConfig agent reliability changes.
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- GuestConfig agent support for US Gov Virginia region.
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- GuestConfig agent extension report messages to be more verbose if there is a failure.
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## September 2020
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Version: 1.0 (General Availability)
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### Plan for change
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- Support for preview agents (all versions older than 1.0) will be removed in a future service update.
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- Removed support for fallback endpoint `.azure-automation.net`. If you have a proxy, you need to allow the endpoint `*.his.arc.azure.com`.
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- If the Connected Machine agent is installed on a virtual machine hosted in Azure, VM extensions can't be installed or modified from the Arc-enabled servers resource. This is to avoid conflicting extension operations being performed from the virtual machine's **Microsoft.Compute** and **Microsoft.HybridCompute** resource. Use the **Microsoft.Compute** resource for the machine for all extension operations.
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- Name of guest configuration process has changed, from *gcd* to *gcad* on Linux, and *gcservice* to *gcarcservice* on Windows.
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### New features
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- Added `azcmagent logs` option to collect information for support.
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- Added `azcmagent license` option to display EULA.
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- Added `azcmagent show --json` option to output agent state in easily parseable format.
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- Added flag in `azcmagent show` output to indicate if server is on a virtual machine hosted in Azure.
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- Added `azcmagent disconnect --force-local-only` option to allow reset of local agent state when Azure service cannot be reached.
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- Added `azcmagent connect --cloud` option to support other clouds. In this release, only Azure is supported by service at time of agent release.
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- Agent has been localized into Azure-supported languages.
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### Fixed
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- Improvements to connectivity check.
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- Corrected issue with proxy server settings being lost when upgrading agent on Linux.
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- Resolved issues when attempting to install agent on server running Windows Server 2012 R2.
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- Improvements to extension installation reliability
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## August 2020
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Version: 0.11
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- This release previously announced support for Ubuntu 20.04. Because some Azure VM extensions don't support Ubuntu 20.04, support for this version of Ubuntu is being removed.
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If you are using an older version of the Linux agent and it's configured to use a proxy server, you need to reconfigure the proxy server setting after the upgrade. To do this, run `sudo azcmagent_proxy add http://proxyserver.local:83`.
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## Next steps
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- Before evaluating or enabling Arc-enabled servers across multiple hybrid machines, review [Connected Machine agent overview](agent-overview.md) to understand requirements, technical details about the agent, and deployment methods.
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- Review the [Planning and deployment guide](plan-at-scale-deployment.md) to plan for deploying Azure Arc-enabled servers at any scale and implement centralized management and monitoring.

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This page is updated monthly, so revisit it regularly. If you're looking for items older than six months, you can find them in [archive for What's new with Azure Arc-enabled servers agent](agent-release-notes-archive.md).
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## August 2021
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- The guest configuration policy agent can now configure and remediate system settings. Existing policy assignments continue to be audit-only. Learn more about the Azure Policy [guest configuration remediation options](../../governance/policy/concepts/guest-configuration-policy-effects.md).
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- If the Connected Machine agent is installed on a virtual machine hosted in Azure, VM extensions can't be installed or modified from the Arc-enabled servers resource. This is to avoid conflicting extension operations being performed from the virtual machine's **Microsoft.Compute** and **Microsoft.HybridCompute** resource. Use the **Microsoft.Compute** resource for the machine for all extension operations.
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