Azure Maintenance Configuration - how to get the exact time of the patching

Daniel Petovsky 5

Azure Maintenance Configuration - how to get the exact time of the patching instead of calculating the values manually and set it fixed for the future or calculate via powershell when I have a start value of the patching and schedule repeat On the second Wednesday every 3 months. The plan is to have maintenance calendar that I want to create in Azure Dashboard

kobulloc-MSFT 23,491 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-01-17T15:16:57.0766667+00:00
Hello, @Daniel Petovsky !

There is a minimum 1 hour and 30 minute maintenance window but outside of that you should be able to select the parameters you've listed:

Second Wednesday

Every 3 months

You can do this in the portal, with Azure CLI using maintenance-window-recur-every and maintenance-window-start-date-time or Azure PowerShell using RecurEvery and StartDateTime . Does that answer your question?
Daniel Petovsky 5 Reputation points

2024-01-17T16:25:40.21+00:00

Hello kobulloc-MSFT, Regarding setup of the maintenance this is perfectly clear, I have already running update management . The question is if I can get via api, or powershell the next patching scheduled date (window) based on my frequency that I've set once the update management is setup / running, or I have to just calculate it (manually / within script) based on my frequency that I have set. The aim is to create a ptching claendar via Azure dashboard where next patching date / maintenance windows is showed based on schedule frequency / start date.
kobulloc-MSFT 23,491 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-01-17T20:07:06.4133333+00:00

Hello, @Daniel Petovsky ! I would use az maintenance configuration show to get the configuration record you are looking for. I feel like I may be overlooking something for your scenario though as you already have the date and time that maintenance will occur so in theory that should be as straight forward as entering that in a calendar. So that I better understand your use case and how to answer your question, how are you implementing the calendar via the Azure dashboard such that it's beneficial to retrieve the time via API?
Daniel Petovsky 5 Reputation points

2024-01-18T08:51:47.5666667+00:00

Hi, ok thank you. So then it is only possible to calculate next patch date manually within the script based on the frequency. Thanks
kobulloc-MSFT 23,491 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-01-18T18:31:18.9466667+00:00

Hello, @Daniel Petovsky ! Correct. You can both set and retrieve the Azure maintenance configuration using Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell in addition to using the portal. Based off of that information, you can manually set the patch date on a calendar. I'm going to summarize everything we've discussed in an answer below. If there's anything else I can do, please let me know in the comments. Thank you!

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kobulloc-MSFT 23,491 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-01-18T18:37:54.7633333+00:00

Hello, @Daniel Petovsky ! How would I get the exact time for Azure Maintenance Configuration?

There is a minimum 1 hour and 30 minute maintenance window however you can set this in the portal, with Azure CLI using maintenance-window-recur-every and maintenance-window-start-date-time or Azure PowerShell using RecurEvery and StartDateTime .

If this has already been set, you can retrieve this information in the portal, with Azure CLI by using az maintenance configuration show or with Azure PowerShell by using Az.Maintenance.

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Maarten 0 Reputation points

2024-04-18T13:39:44.91+00:00

But this is not really an answer. Apparently Azure knows when to run the maintenance schedule. In the old updatemanager you could see the "next planned date" but this is gone in the new azure update manager. Is there really nowhere to see this basic info of "next runtime" per schedule or even per ARC enabled machine?
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