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An organization assigns an Azure Policy definition that uses a Modify effect to automatically add a required CostCenter tag to all resources in a subscription.
While newly created resources receive the tag automatically, an evaluation scan reveals that hundreds of existing resources deployed before the policy assignment are marked as non-compliant because they lack the required tag.
What should the administrator configure in Azure Policy to automatically bring these existing non-compliant resources into compliance?
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An Azure Policy remediation task is an automated governance mechanism designed to bring existing non-compliant resources into full alignment with policy definitions. While standard policy enforcement intercepts and alters resource requests during deployment or update cycles, remediation tasks actively evaluate and alter pre-existing resources that fail compliance checks.
In this scenario, the organization needs to update hundreds of pre-existing resources without performing tedious manual updates across each individual resource:
Creating a remediation task directly leverages the native capabilities of Azure Policy to remediate historical non-compliance automatically. It satisfies the requirement without writing external automation scripts or disrupting daily operations.