One way to install the Microsoft Antimalware extension is by browsing to the Extensions blade of the scale set, clicking on the + Add button and then selecting the extension from the popup list. Installing the Microsoft Antimalware extension But in this article I’m going to concentrate on the following two and how to go about installing them. The Azure marketplace offers many third party security extensions that can be implemented. For scale sets running Windows 2016 VM instances, Windows defender is built into the OS but for Windows 2012 R2 this is something that needs to be managed. Either manually or automatically using predefined auto scale rules based on resource usage like CPU, memory demand or network traffic.Īs with any virtual machine, it is important to protect the scale set VM instances by installing the latest security updates and running Antimalware to maintain a strong security posture. Scale sets also give them the ability to scale the number of VM instances as required. Using scale sets allows them to provide redundancy and improved performance by distributing their web applications across multiple VM instances. Azure load balancers then sit above the scale sets distributing traffic. For the most part, the scale sets are used to offer public facing web services. I’ve been engaged with a customer over the the past few months that hosts multiple virtual machine scale sets across their Azure estate.

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