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• In the Azure portal you can add the "Maintenance" column
• Scheduled maintenance is reported to Azure Activity Logs so you can create a Health Alert based on that
  • Make sure you set the Event type as Planned maintenance and Services as Virtual Machine Scale Sets and/or Virtual Machines
    

What can I do to minimize downtime?

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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/scheduled-events

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/alerts-activity-log-service-notifications

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/find-out-when-your-virtual-machine-hardware-is-degraded-with-scheduled-events/

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