Merge pull request #50725 from ShawnKupfer/WB1805

AB#1055064: Introduction to Azure Arc-enabled servers

Author: JillGrant615

learn-pr/azure/intro-to-arc-for-servers/1-introduction.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: Introduction
 metadata:
   title: Introduction
   description: Introduction
-  ms.date: 11/13/2023
+  ms.date: 05/29/2025
   author: JnHs
   ms.author: jenhayes
   ms.topic: unit

learn-pr/azure/intro-to-arc-for-servers/2-characteristics-azure-arc-enabled-servers.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: What are the characteristics of Azure Arc-enabled servers?
 metadata:
   title: What are the characteristics of Azure Arc-enabled servers?
   description: What are the characteristics of Azure Arc-enabled servers?
-  ms.date: 11/13/2023
+  ms.date: 05/29/2025
   author: JnHs
   ms.author: jenhayes
   ms.topic: unit
@@ -17,21 +17,20 @@ quiz:
   questions:
   - content: "What component is required in order to establish a logical connection between an Arc-enabled resource and Azure?"
     choices:
-    - content: "The Log Analytics agent."
+    - content: "The Azure Monitor Agent."
       isCorrect: false
-      explanation: "Incorrect. The Log Analytics agent isn't required when using Azure Arc, although it's recommended since it allows you to implement a range of Azure hybrid services, such as Azure Monitor or Microsoft Defender for Cloud."
+      explanation: "Incorrect. The Azure Monitor Agent isn't required when using Azure Arc, although it's recommended because it allows you to implement a range of Azure hybrid services, such as Azure Monitor or Microsoft Sentinel."
     - content: "The Microsoft Dependency agent."
       isCorrect: false
-      explanation: "Incorrect. The Microsoft Dependency agent isn't required when using Azure Arc, although it's recommended, since it facilitates identifying internal and external dependencies of server workloads."
+      explanation: "Incorrect. The Microsoft Dependency agent isn't required when using Azure Arc, although it's recommended because it facilitates identifying internal and external dependencies of server workloads."
     - content: "The Connected Machine agent."
       isCorrect: true
       explanation: "Correct. In each of the Azure Arc-enabled scenarios, Azure Arc uses the locally installed Connected Machine agents to establish a logical connection between the local resource and Azure."
-  - content: "Which of the following operating system aren't supported by Azure Arc-enabled servers?"
+  - content: "Which of the following operating systems aren't supported by Azure Arc-enabled servers?"
     choices:
     - content: "Windows Server 2012 R2"
       isCorrect: false
       explanation: "Incorrect. The Azure Connected Machine agent supports all versions of Windows Server operating system that haven't reached their end of support stage."
-
     - content: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (x64)."
       isCorrect: false
       explanation: "Incorrect. The Azure Connected Machine agent supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (x64)."

learn-pr/azure/intro-to-arc-for-servers/3-capabilities-azure-arc-enabled-servers.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title:  What are the core management and governance capabilities of Azure Arc-en
 metadata:
   title: What are the core management and governance capabilities of Azure Arc-enabled servers?
   description: What are the core management and governance capabilities of Azure Arc-enabled servers?
-  ms.date: 08/01/2024
+  ms.date: 05/29/2025
   author: JnHs
   ms.author: jenhayes
   ms.topic: unit
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ quiz:
     - content: "Azure Key Vault extension."
       isCorrect: false
       explanation: "That's incorrect. This VM extension provides integration with Azure Key Vault."
-    - content: "Log Analytics agent."
+    - content: "Azure Monitor Agent."
       isCorrect: true
       explanation: "That's correct. This VM extension implements integration with Azure Monitor."
   - content: "What can the administrator do in order to audit changes the state of operating system of Azure Arc-enabled servers?"

learn-pr/azure/intro-to-arc-for-servers/4-simplify-management-maintenance-azure-arc-servers.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: What are the security and monitoring capabilities of Azure Arc-enabled se
 metadata:
   title: What are the security and monitoring capabilities of Azure Arc-enabled servers?
   description: What are the security and monitoring capabilities of Azure Arc-enabled servers?
-  ms.date: 11/13/2023
+  ms.date: 05/29/2025
   author: JnHs
   ms.author: jenhayes
   ms.topic: unit
@@ -15,26 +15,26 @@ content: |
 quiz:
   title: Check your knowledge
   questions:
-  - content:  "What is the simplest method to identify the operating system of an Azure Arc-enabled servers?"
+  - content:  "What is the simplest method to identify an Azure Arc-enabled server's operating system?"
     choices:
-    - content: "Integrate the server with Azure Monitor and run a Log Analytics query."
+    - content: "Integrate the server with Azure Monitor and run a query."
       isCorrect: false
-      explanation: "Incorrect. While it is possible to identify the required information, this identification would require extra administrative effort."
+      explanation: "Incorrect. While it's possible to identify the required information, this identification would require extra administrative effort."
     - content: "Use Windows Admin Center to connect to each server."
       isCorrect: false
-      explanation: "Incorrect. While it is possible to identify the required information, this would require extra administrative effort."
+      explanation: "Incorrect. While it's possible to identify the required information, this would require extra administrative effort."
     - content: "Use the Azure Arc-enabled servers blade in the Azure portal."
       isCorrect: true
       explanation: "Correct. The blade allows the administrator to readily identify the OS build and OS version. The blade also includes server name, manufacturer, model, serial number, the number of CPU cores, and the amount of memory."
   - content: "What is the primary Azure Monitor-related benefit of Azure Arc-enabled servers compared with non Azure Arc-enabled servers?"
     choices:
     - content: "The ability to capture diagnostic logs."
       isCorrect: false
-      explanation: "Incorrect. This functionality is available for both Azure Arc-enabled servers and machines, which are not Azure Arc-enabled."
+      explanation: "Incorrect. This functionality is available for both Azure Arc-enabled servers and machines that aren't Azure Arc-enabled."
     - content: "The ability to generate alerts."
       isCorrect: false
-      explanation: "Incorrect. This functionality is available for both Azure Arc-enabled servers and machines, which are not Azure Arc-enabled."
-    - content: "The ability to deploy and configure the Log Analytics agent via VM extensions."
+      explanation: "Incorrect. This functionality is available for both Azure Arc-enabled servers and machines that aren't Azure Arc-enabled."
+    - content: "The ability to deploy and configure the Azure Monitor Agent via VM extensions."
       isCorrect: true
-      explanation: "Correct. VM extensions are not available for non-Azure machines, which are not Azure Arc-enabled."
+      explanation: "Correct. VM extensions are not available for non-Azure machines that aren't Azure Arc-enabled."
 

learn-pr/azure/intro-to-arc-for-servers/5-summary.yml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ uid: learn.azure.intro-to-arc-for-servers.summary
 metadata:
   title: Summary
   description: Summary
-  ms.date: 11/13/2023
+  ms.date: 05/29/2025
   author: JnHs
   ms.author: jenhayes
   ms.topic: unit

learn-pr/azure/intro-to-arc-for-servers/includes/1-introduction.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Azure Arc promises to bridge the gap between on-premises and cloud environments by providing consistent security, observability, and governance of the Azure platform and its services. In this module, you'll learn how you can benefit from these capabilities. 
 
-Let's consider a hypothetical customer scenario. Contoso is a medium-sized financial services company with its headquarters in London, England, and offices all around the world. It’s currently operating almost entirely on-premises, with the compute environment consisting of a mix of physical and virtual servers, running a range of Windows Server versions and Linux distributions. That diversity, along with the corresponding siloed operational model and lack of tools that would facilitate a consistent, unified management is the primary challenge that Contoso's IT team is currently facing. In addition, Contoso's IT team is exploring the option of migrating to the cloud some of its on-premises server workloads running on legacy infrastructure, which is reaching end of life. Contoso is considering several different cloud providers with the possibility of the multicloud strategy. The primary concern of the Contoso's Chief Information Officer (CIO) is that such strategy might further exacerbate operational complexity and management overhead that Contoso's IT is trying to minimize.
+Let's consider a hypothetical customer scenario. Contoso is a medium-sized financial services company with its headquarters in London, England, and offices all around the world. It's currently operating almost entirely on-premises, with the compute environment consisting of a mix of physical and virtual servers running a range of Windows Server versions and Linux distributions. That diversity, along with the corresponding siloed operational model and lack of tools that would facilitate a consistent, unified management is the primary challenge that Contoso's IT team is currently facing. In addition, Contoso's IT team is exploring the option of migrating to the cloud some of its on-premises server workloads running on legacy infrastructure, which is reaching end of life. Contoso is considering several different cloud providers with the possibility of the multicloud strategy. The primary concern of the Contoso's Chief Information Officer (CIO) is that such strategy might further exacerbate operational complexity and management overhead that Contoso's IT is trying to minimize.
 
-Contoso's CIO wants to identify technologies that promise to bridge the gap between the administrative model of on-premises and multicloud services regardless of the server operating system and the hardware or virtualization platform. While attending the most recent Ignite event, the CIO learned about the hybrid capabilities of Azure Arc and asked you, the IT Engineering team lead, with evaluating the extent to which Azure Arc-enabled servers can help with building a consistent, unified management model.
+Contoso's CIO wants to identify technologies that promise to bridge the gap between the administrative model of on-premises and multicloud services regardless of the server operating system and the hardware or virtualization platform. While attending the most recent Ignite event, the CIO learned about the hybrid capabilities of Azure Arc and tasked you, the IT Engineering team lead, with evaluating the extent to which Azure Arc-enabled servers can help with building a consistent, unified management model.
 
 ## Learning objectives
 

learn-pr/azure/intro-to-arc-for-servers/includes/2-characteristics-azure-arc-enabled-servers.md

@@ -1,15 +1,12 @@
-> [!CAUTION]
-> This content references CentOS, a Linux distribution that is End Of Life (EOL) status. Please consider your use and plan accordingly. For more information, see the [CentOS End Of Life guidance](/azure/virtual-machines/workloads/centos/centos-end-of-life).
+The business technology landscape continuously evolves and becomes increasingly complex, with multiple applications running on different hardware across on-premises datacenters, multiple public and private clouds, and the edge. Managing these disparate environments at scale, enhancing security across an entire organization, and enabling developer agility and innovation are critical for businesses to succeed and thrive. Microsoft Azure provides tools and solutions that help customers like Contoso to innovate their hybrid environments in a secure manner and with a minimized management overhead. Azure Arc is an example of such solution. While it offers support for a range of different scenarios, most on-premises workloads still rely on physical or virtual servers running either Windows or Linux, so our focus will be on Azure Arc-enabled servers.
 
-The business technology landscape continuously evolves and becomes increasingly complex, with multiple applications running on different hardware across on-premises datacenters, multiple public and private clouds, and the edge. Managing these disparate environments at scale, enhancing security across an entire organization, and enabling developer agility and innovation are critical for businesses to succeed and thrive. Microsoft Azure provides tools and solutions that help customers like Contoso to innovate their hybrid environments in a secure manner and with a minimized management overhead. Azure Arc is an example of such solution. While it offers support for a range of different scenarios, most on-premises workloads still rely on physical or virtual servers running either Windows or Linux, so our focus will be on Azure Arc-enabled servers. 
-
-Azure Arc consists of a set of technologies that simplify administration of complex, distributed, hybrid environments, such as the one you deal with as Contoso's IT Engineering team lead. It provides a centralized, multicloud, and on-premises governance and management platform. It facilitates adoption of automation, single-pane-of-glass monitoring, and comprehensive security, and promotes the cloud-first strategy regardless of where your resources are located. At the same time, Azure Arc still allows you to continue using traditional ITOps tools and practices as you transition to the DevOps model to fully benefit from cloud native architectural and operational patterns.
+Azure Arc consists of a set of technologies that simplify administrating complex, distributed, hybrid environments, such as the one you deal with as Contoso's IT Engineering team lead. It provides a centralized, multicloud, and on-premises governance and management platform. It facilitates adoption of automation, single-pane-of-glass monitoring, and comprehensive security, and promotes the cloud-first strategy regardless of where your resources are located. At the same time, Azure Arc still allows you to continue using traditional ITOps tools and practices as you transition to the DevOps model to fully benefit from cloud-native architectural and operational patterns.
 
 In this unit, you'll learn about the characteristics of Azure Arc-enabled servers and how to enable Azure Arc.
 
 ## What are Azure Arc-enabled servers?
 
-Azure Arc relies on the Azure Arc Connected Machine agent, a locally installed agent, to establish a logical connection between the local resource and Azure. By establishing this connection, a non-Azure resource automatically becomes a hybrid Azure resource, with its own identity represented by an Azure Resource Manager resource ID. Azure Resource Manager serves as the management interface that allows you to create, modify, and delete Azure resources.
+Azure Arc relies on the Azure Arc Connected Machine agent, a locally installed agent, to establish a logical connection between the local resource and Azure. By establishing this connection, a non-Azure resource automatically becomes a hybrid Azure resource with its own identity represented by an Azure Resource Manager resource ID. Azure Resource Manager serves as the management interface that allows you to create, modify, and delete Azure resources.
 
 By connecting your machines to Azure with Azure Arc-enabled servers, you can use Azure Resource Manager to manage and monitor its configuration and operations. This facilitates a range of other scenarios that use Azure services to optimize security, monitoring, and governance.
 
@@ -43,28 +40,12 @@ Connecting the agent to your subscription creates an Azure Resource Manager obje
 
 The Connected Machine agent allows you to enhance management of Windows and Linux computers residing in on-premises datacenters or hosted by third party private and public cloud providers. Azure Arc-enabled servers support the installation of the Connected Machine agent on any physical server and virtual machine hosted outside of Azure. Supported environments include:
 
-- VMware
-- Azure Stack HCI
+- VMware (including Azure VMware Solution)
+- Azure Local
 - Other cloud environments
 
 Azure Arc-enabled servers does not support installing the agent on virtual machines running in Azure, or virtual machines running on Azure Stack Hub or Azure Stack Edge as they are already modeled as Azure VMs.
 
-The Azure Connected Machine agent supports the following operating systems:
-
-- Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, and 2022
-  - Both Desktop and Server Core experiences are supported
-  - Azure Editions are supported on Azure Stack HCI
-- Windows 10, 11 (see client operating system guidance)
-- Windows IoT Enterprise
-- Azure Stack HCI
-- CBL-Mariner 1.0, 2.0
-- Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, and 22.04 LTS
-- Debian 10 and 11
-- CentOS Linux 7 and 8
-- Rocky Linux 8
-- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 SP3-SP5 and 15
-- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, 8 and 9
-- Amazon Linux 2
-- Oracle Linux 7 and 8
+The Azure Connected Machine agent supports a wide range of Windows and Linux operating systems. x86-64 (64-bit) architecture is fully supported, while only some features are supported on Arm64. The Azure Connected Machine agent doesn't run on 32-bit architectures.
 
 Choose the best response for each of the following questions.