Manage Updates and Configuration with Azure Automation

Microsoft Azure Automation provides a cloud-based service for handling automation tasks, managing updates for operating systems, and configuring Azure and non-Azure environments. We focus on VM update management and restarting VMs.

By Thomas Drilling

Updated Sep 3, 2026 12:52 PM / Published Aug 6, 2022 3:00 AM 9 min read

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Thomas Drilling

Thomas Drilling has been a full-time freelance journalist and editor for science and IT magazines for more than 10 years. Drilling is also a book author and publisher, IT consultant, and lectures on Linux, open source, and IT security.