

Copy the Template text into Wordpad (not Notepad) and then copy paste again into Notepad if you want to just quickly edit it. Monitoring the antimalware is done via Windows Event Logs and is enabled automatically to your selected storage account.īefore you click OK, click Automation Options and grab the scripts needed to modify this extension later.

To enable antimalware with a custom configuration, input the supported values for the configuration settings provided on the Install Extension blade and click OK. To enable antimalware with the default configuration, click Create on the Add Extension blade without inputting any configuration setting values. To add it create a new VM in the Azure portal and from the Settings blade choose ExtensionsĬlick Add extension and then choose Microsoft Antimalwareįrom the Install Extension blade enter your exclusions, scan times etc. The addition of malware protection to your new virtual machine happens during the VM creation process. We will show how to do that in the section part of this article.

The agent can be added easily when you are creating a new VM, which we will show first below using the resource manager model, but also can be added after the virtual machine creation and updated with changes as you need. The Microsoft AntiMalware agent is a virtual machine extension in Azure that adds support for build in antimalware management within your virtual machines hosted in Azure.
