Azure VM Automatic Extension Upgrade

Andres Bohren

2026-01-16

Hi All,

Recently i’ve been stumbled over this Article:

MS Learn Automatic Extension Upgrade for virtual machines and scale sets in Azure

Azure Portal

Select the Machine > Settings > Extensions + Applications

Here you could “Enable automatic upgrade” of an Extension

AZ PowerShel

You need to use the AZ PowerShell Module

Connect to Azure

Connect-AzAccount -Tenant icewolfch.onmicrosoft.com

Get Azure VM Extension

Get-AzVMExtension -ResourceGroupName "rg-exolab" -VMName DC01

Set Azure VM Extension to Automatic Upgrade

Set-AzVMExtension -ResourceGroupName "rg-exolab" -VMName DC01 -EnableAutomaticUpgrade $true -Publisher Microsoft.EnterpriseCloud.Monitoring -ExtensionType MicrosoftMonitoringAgent -Name MicrosoftMonitoringAgent -TypeHandlerVersion 1.0

Get Azure VM Extension

Get-AzVMExtension -ResourceGroupName "rg-exolab" -VMName DC01

Azure Portal

Here is the Result in the Azure Portal

Regards
Andres Bohren