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**Applies to:** :heavy_check_mark: Windows VMs :heavy_check_mark: Linux VMs :heavy_check_mark: On-premises environment :heavy_check_mark: Azure Arc-enabled servers.
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> [!IMPORTANT]
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> - For a seamless scheduled patching experience, we recommend that for all Azure VMs, you update the patch orchestration to **Customer Managed Schedules** by **June 30, 2023**. If you fail to update the patch orchestration by June 30, 2023, you can experience a disruption in business continuity because the schedules will fail to patch the VMs. [Learn more](prerequsite-for-schedule-patching.md).
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> For a seamless scheduled patching experience, we recommend that for all Azure virtual machines (VMs), you update the patch orchestration to **Customer Managed Schedules** by **June 30, 2023**. If you fail to update the patch orchestration by June 30, 2023, you can experience a disruption in business continuity because the schedules will fail to patch the VMs. [Learn more](prerequsite-for-schedule-patching.md).
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You can use Azure Update Manager to create and save recurring deployment schedules. You can create a schedule on a daily, weekly, or hourly cadence. You can specify the machines that must be updated as part of the schedule and the updates to be installed.
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1. Sign in to the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com).
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1. On the **Azure Update Manager** | **Overview** page, select your subscription and select **Schedule updates**.
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1. On the **Azure Update Manager** | **Overview** page, select your subscription, and then select **Schedule updates**.
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1. On the **Create new maintenance configuration** page, you can create a schedule for a single VM.
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Currently, VMs and maintenance configuration in the same subscription are supported.
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1. On the **Basics** page, select **Subscription**, **Resource Group**, and all options in **Instance details**.
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- Select **Maintenance scope** as **Guest (Azure VM, Azure Arc-enabled VMs/servers)**.
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- Select **Add a schedule** and in **Add/Modify schedule**, specify the schedule details, such as:
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- Select **Add a schedule**. In **Add/Modify schedule**, specify the schedule details, such as:
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- **Start on**
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- **Maintenance window** (in hours). The upper maintenance window is 3 hours 55 minutes.
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- Repeat on a calendar date (optionally run on the last date of the month).
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- Repeat on nth (first, second, etc.) x day (for example, Monday, Tuesday) of the month. You can also specify an offset from the day set. It could be +6/-6. For example, if you want to patch on the first Saturday after a patch on Tuesday, set the recurrence as the second Tuesday of the month with a +4 day offset. Optionally, you can also specify an end date when you want the schedule to expire.
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1. On the **Machines** tab, select your machine and select **Next**.
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1. On the **Machines** tab, select your machine, and then select **Next**.
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Update Manager doesn't support driver updates.
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1. On the **Tags** tab, assign tags to maintenance configurations.
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1. On the **Review + create** tab, verify your update deployment options and select **Create**.
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1. On the **Review + create** tab, verify your update deployment options, and then select **Create**.
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# [From Machines pane](#tab/schedule-updates-single-machine)
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# [From the Machines pane](#tab/schedule-updates-single-machine)
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1. Sign in to the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com).
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1. On the **Azure Update Manager** | **Machines** page, select your subscription, select your machine, and select **Schedule updates**.
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1. On the **Azure Update Manager** | **Machines** page, select your subscription, select your machine, and then select **Schedule updates**.
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1. In **Create new maintenance configuration**, you can create a schedule for a single VM and assign a machine and tags. Follow the procedure from step 3 listed in **From Overview pane** of [Schedule recurring updates on a single VM](#schedule-recurring-updates-on-a-single-vm) to create a maintenance configuration and assign a schedule.
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1. Sign in to the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com).
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1. On the **Azure Update Manager** | **Overview** page, select your subscription and select **Schedule updates**.
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1. On the **Azure Update Manager** | **Overview** page, select your subscription, and then select **Schedule updates**.
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1. On the **Create new maintenance configuration** page, you can create a schedule for multiple machines.
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Currently, VMs and maintenance configuration in the same subscription are supported.
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1. On the **Basics** tab, select **Subscription**, **Resource Group**, and all options in **Instance details**.
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- Select **Add a schedule** and in **Add/Modify schedule**, specify the schedule details, such as:
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- Select **Add a schedule**. In **Add/Modify schedule**, specify the schedule details, such as:
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1. On the **Review + create** tab, verify your update deployment options, and then select **Create**.
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# [From Machines pane](#tab/schedule-updates-scale-machine)
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# [From the Machines pane](#tab/schedule-updates-scale-machine)
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1. Sign in to the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com).
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1. On the **Azure Update Manager** | **Machines** page, select your subscription, select your machines, and select **Schedule updates**.
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1. On the **Azure Update Manager** | **Machines** page, select your subscription, select your machines, and then select **Schedule updates**.
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On the **Create new maintenance configuration** page, you can create a schedule for a single VM. Follow the procedure from step 3 listed in **From Overview pane** of [Schedule recurring updates on a single VM](#schedule-recurring-updates-on-a-single-vm) to create a maintenance configuration and assign a schedule.
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A maintenance configuration can be attached to multiple machines. It can be attached to machines at the time of creating a new maintenance configuration or even after you create one.
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1. On the **Azure Update Manager** page, select **Machines** and select your subscription.
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1. On the **Azure Update Manager** page, select **Machines**, and then select your subscription.
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1. On the **Scheduling** tab, select **Attach maintenance configuration**.
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1. On the **Attach existing maintenance configuration** page, select the maintenance configuration that you want to attach, and then select **Attach**.
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:::image type="content" source="./media/scheduled-updates/scheduled-patching-attach-maintenance-inline.png" alt-text="Screenshot that shows Scheduled patching attach maintenance configuration." lightbox="./media/scheduled-updates/scheduled-patching-attach-maintenance-expanded.png":::
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:::image type="content" source="./media/scheduled-updates/dynamic-scoping-defintion.png" alt-text="Screenshot that shows how to select the definition.":::
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- Ensure that **Policy enforcement** is set to **Enabled**, and then select **Next**.
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1. On the **Review + create** tab, verify your selections, and then select **Create** to identify the noncompliant resources to understand the compliance state of your environment.
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