Azure Arc Guest Configuration with Jodi Boone

What's an Azure Arc Guest Configuration? Richard talks to Jodi Boone about the freshly renamed Machine Configuration for Azure Arc. It turns out "guest" is a problematic word - but being able to set policy around machine configurations can make your life much easier. Jodi talks about using existing policy templates, along with Desired State Configuration, to customize configurations so that they can be applied to multiple virtual machines on Azure, on-premises, and in other cloud environments.

Episode 911 of the RunAs Radio podcast, hosted by Jodi Boone, Richard Campbell, titled "Azure Arc Guest Configuration with Jodi Boone" was published on December 20, 2023 and runs 32 minutes.

December 20, 2023 ·32m · RunAs Radio

Summary

What's an Azure Arc Guest Configuration? Richard talks to Jodi Boone about the freshly renamed Machine Configuration for Azure Arc. It turns out "guest" is a problematic word - but being able to set policy around machine configurations can make your life much easier. Jodi talks about using existing policy templates, along with Desired State Configuration, to customize configurations so that they can be applied to multiple virtual machines on Azure, on-premises, and in other cloud environments.

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