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Azure Arc-enabled servers prerequisites

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Observation details · observed 23 Oct 08:48 UTC
Observed by ChangeIntel
23 Oct 08:48 UTC
Source update metadata
19 Oct 22:12 UTC
First observed on this installation
8 Oct 23:13 UTC
Last successful check
today 03:43 UTC
Next check due
today 09:43 UTC

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Timeline

From the capture of 23 Oct 08:48 UTC

Relative periods

Counted from an event the source describes, such as installing an update; they are not calendar dates.

Requirements, exceptions and scope

Extracted automatically from Microsoft's wording. Confirm dates, conditions and whether they apply to you in the source before acting; a month or quarter is a window, not a day.

How this timeline changed

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  1. for 12 months
  2. Recommendation added Azure Connected Machine Agent OS support and deprecationseen by ChangeIntel
6 earlier changes
Observed history and review priority

Captured 23 Oct 08:48 UTC; extracted 23 Oct 08:48 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/d9863eb412f92fa5ec3a8ca32e2dd7cfe8095530f456ecb1866608d1166a435d.

Review priority. Extracted assertions require review · Publisher marks guidance tentative · Applicability or exceptions require review

0 date changes and 0 condition changes across 3 compared revisions. Suggested check interval: 6 hours.

Earlier unavailable versions and edits between checks are unknown. A missing statement requires review; it does not mean the policy was cancelled. Recovered historical statements are not original revision snapshots.

Retained observations · 25

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Microsoft's edits

History on GitHub

Commits to the page's source in MicrosoftDocs/azure-management-docs, with Microsoft's own messages. Commit dates can be hours or days before Learn publishes the change. ChangeIntel keeps a copy of each diff, so an edit stays readable here if GitHub stops serving it. Read today 00:34 UTC.

  1. Learn Editor: Update prerequisites.md Served on LearnView diff
  2. Learn Editor: Update prerequisites.md View diff
  3. Learn Editor: Update prerequisites.md View diff
  4. Learn Editor: Update prerequisites.md View diff
  5. Learn Editor: Update prerequisites.md View diff
  6. Update articles/azure-arc/servers/prerequisites.md View diff
  7. Learn Editor: Update prerequisites.md View diff
  8. Update articles/azure-arc/servers/prerequisites.md View diff
  9. Learn Editor: Update prerequisites.md View diff
  10. docs: update ms.date and add important notes regarding ESU deactivati… (#2862) View diff
  11. Arc OS Support Updates (#2794) View diff
  12. Learn Editor: Update prerequisites.md View diff
  13. Learn Editor: Update prerequisites.md View diff
  14. Add arm64 support for Azure Linux 3.0 in Arc servers prerequisites View diff
  15. Update Azure Linux 2 limited end of support in prerequisites View diff
  16. Update Debian and Oracle Linux support status View diff
  17. fix icon View diff
  18. more edits View diff
  19. further updates View diff
  20. clarify os support View diff
  21. Update Arc Server prerequisites to reflect Debian 12 Arm64 support View diff
  22. Learn Editor: Update prerequisites.md View diff
  23. General readability edits View diff
  24. Edits View diff
  25. Draft of changes View diff
  26. Added 2025 View diff
3 metadata-only edits · author, dates or topic labels, no article text
  1. Azure-arc servers customer intents Metadata onlyView diff
  2. Metadata updates Metadata onlyView diff
  3. Changed date Metadata onlyView diff

No related evidence found in this installation's recent collection. This does not establish that no announcement exists.

Retained observations

  • 23 Oct 08:48 UTC · shown above
  • 19 Oct 23:40 UTC

    1 edited passage (23 words changed). The changed wording mentions dates and deadlines, supported platforms. Review the source to confirm the effect.

  • 18 Oct 23:34 UTC

    4 new passages (about 140 words), 1 edited passage (109 words changed). The changed wording mentions dates and deadlines, supported platforms, settings and controls. Review the source to confirm the effect.

  • 12 Oct 23:53 UTC

    The page title or its body outside the tracked passages changed. Review the source for its effect.

  • 8 Oct 23:13 UTC

    Baseline for retained history; no earlier retained text to compare.

What changed

First observed 18 Oct 2026
  1. 18 Oct 2026 · 23:36:08 UTC Relative periodsfor 12 months
  2. 18 Oct 2026 · 23:36:08 UTC SummaryMicrosoft's guidance publishes no dates; 8 sections of requirements, exceptions or scope. → Microsoft's guidance publishes no dates; 9 sections of requirements, exceptions or scope.

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Sources read 26 Oct 08:27 UTC · 272 of 272 readable · 270 fully read · documentation 469/469 current