Property on a policy assignment that limits evaluation to particular resource types or locations, such as just VMs located in East US.
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- property
In VCF Operations, an attribute describing how an object is configured, such as its vCPU count. Unlike a metric, it captures state rather than performance over time, and it can feed symptom definitions, views, dashboards and reports.
- Policy assignment
What makes a policy definition or initiative take effect: it targets a management group, subscription or resource group, supplies parameter values, exclusions, an enforcement mode and non-compliance messages, and starts a compliance scan.
- Virtual machines
Infrastructure-as-a-service compute giving complete control of the operating system, making it a fit for lift-and-shift moves and for software relying on OS-level pieces like COM.
Related terms
- Assignment overrides
An optional property on a policy assignment that alters a definition's effect, or the version of a built-in definition, without touching the definition itself. Selectors can narrow where an override applies, and pairing it with resource selectors supports safe, staged rollout.
- Safe deployment practices
Rolling out Azure Policy in stages. Assignments are made at the top scope, then resource selectors and overrides (or the DoNotEnforce mode) limit them at first to the least important tier; once compliance and app health look good, each further tier is brought in.