Deployment

When customers have purchased 1-year Extended Security Updates licenses they need to make their servers known to Azure Arc to receive the updates. They can either connect their servers if they want them to be managed by Azure Arc, or just register them if they just want to be able to get at the updates. Note that you HAVE to use the connect option if you want to purchase the Azure Arc ESUs, but you can choose either option if you purchase the 1-year ESUs.

You can find technical documentation (with useful screenshots) detailing the registration process here, and it also details the final (slightly unusual) part of the process which is that you need to link your servers to an ESU invoice. There is no compliance checking involved here – it’s simply an attestation process: you’re confirming that you have purchased enough ESUs for the servers that you link to the invoice.

When these two parts of the process have been carried out, the ESU packages are available to be downloaded via a link in the Azure portal.