Across this global philanthropic non-profit's server fleet, the goal was simple: one process, one tool. The organization is extending Azure Arc across its hybrid estate spanning Azure, on-premises infrastructure, and other environments to bring every machine under one governance model. As a design partner in Tanium's Azure Arc extension private preview, Avanade pioneered a native path for deploying the Tanium Client directly through that same Arc control plane, validating it end-to-end on Windows and Linux with the core agent installing in about five minutes. Where bootstrapping once meant a mix of manual installs, Group Policy, and custom extensions, the team is now automating with Azure Policy's DeployIfNotExists so every newly registered Arc machine is enrolled in Tanium, joins its dynamic groups, and inherits the patching, compliance, and configuration policies already defined. The result: Azure Arc adoption becomes an accelerant for Tanium coverage rather than a separate process to manage.

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