Azure Virtual Network Manager Agent Skill

Expert knowledge for Azure Virtual Network Manager development including troubleshooting, best practices, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, and configuration. Use when managing AVNM network groups/topologies, IPAM pools, connectivity hubs, UDR automation, or security admin rules, and other Azure Virtual Network Manager related development tasks. Not for Azure Virtual Network (use azure-virtual-network), Azure Virtual WAN (use azure-virtual-wan), Azure Network Watcher (use azure-network-watcher), Azure Networking (use azure-networking).

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Install

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npx skills add https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-virtual-network-manager

The instruction itself

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Azure Virtual Network Manager Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Virtual Network Manager. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, and configuration. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

How to Use This Skill

> IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., L35-L120), use read_file with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., security.md), use read_file on the linked reference file

> IMPORTANT for Agent: If metadata.generated_at is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. If mcp_microsoftdocs tools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guide

This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:

Preferred: Use mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.
Fallback: Use fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.

Category Index

| Category | Lines | Description |

|----------|-------|-------------|

| Troubleshooting | L34-L39 | Diagnosing and fixing common Azure Virtual Network Manager issues, including policy deployment, connectivity, and verifying that network configurations are correctly applied. |

| Best Practices | L40-L45 | Deploying and updating AVNM configurations safely, and step-by-step guidance/checklists for cleanly removing or decommissioning AVNM components without breaking networks |

| Architecture & Design Patterns | L46-L53 | Designing AVNM network topologies, IP address planning with IPAM, and automating user-defined route (UDR) creation and management across multiple hub-and-spoke environments |

| Limits & Quotas | L54-L58 | Azure Virtual Network Manager resource limits, quotas, and scale constraints (e.g., max networks, connections, configurations) and guidance on planning deployments within those limits. |

| Security | L59-L73 | Designing, simulating, and enforcing AVNM security admin rules (using network groups) to protect ports, block RDP/web traffic, and secure hub-and-spoke VNets with Azure Firewall and IPAM. |

| Configuration | L74-L93 | Configuring AVNM: set up network groups/topologies, IPAM pools and cross-tenant IPAM, connectivity hubs, UDRs, logging, verification, and deploy via portal, CLI, PowerShell, ARM/Bicep. |

Troubleshooting

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Troubleshoot common Azure Virtual Network Manager issues | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/common-issues |

| Verify and troubleshoot AVNM applied configurations | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/how-to-view-applied-configurations |

Best Practices

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Manage Azure Virtual Network Manager configuration deployments | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/concept-deployments |

| Checklist for safely removing AVNM components | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/concept-remove-components-checklist |

Architecture & Design Patterns

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Design AVNM connectivity configurations and topologies | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/concept-connectivity-configuration |

| Plan and manage IP addresses with AVNM IPAM | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/concept-ip-address-management |

| Automate user-defined route management with AVNM | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/concept-user-defined-route |

| Manage UDRs across multiple AVNM hub-and-spoke topologies | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/how-to-manage-user-defined-routes-multiple-hub-spoke-topologies |

Limits & Quotas

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Understand Azure Virtual Network Manager limits and quotas | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/concept-limitations |

Security

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Enforce AVNM security policies with security admin rules | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/concept-enforcement |

| Use AVNM network groups in security admin rules | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/concept-security-admin-rules-network-group |

| Use security admin rules in Azure Virtual Network Manager | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/concept-security-admins |

| Protect high-risk ports using AVNM Security Admin Rules | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/how-to-block-high-risk-ports |

| Block inbound RDP traffic with AVNM security admin rules | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/how-to-block-network-traffic-portal |

| Block outbound web traffic with AVNM security rules | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/how-to-block-network-traffic-powershell |

| Create AVNM security admin rules using network groups | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/how-to-create-security-admin-rule-network-group |

| Deploy AVNM hub-and-spoke topology with Azure Firewall | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/how-to-deploy-hub-spoke-topology-with-azure-firewall |

| Simulate Azure Virtual Network Manager security admin rules | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/how-to-simulate-security-admin-rules |

| Prevent overlapping VNet address spaces with Azure Policy and AVNM IPAM | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/prevent-overlapping-ip-address-space-policy-ipam |

| Build and secure AVNM hub-and-spoke networks | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/tutorial-create-secured-hub-and-spoke |

Configuration

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Automate VNet creation using AVNM IPAM pools with PowerShell | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/automate-ip-address-management-ipam-sample |

| Configure AVNM network groups with Azure Policy | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/concept-azure-policy-integration |

| Configure Virtual WAN hubs as AVNM connectivity hubs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/configure-virtual-wan-hub-for-network-manager |

| Create AVNM mesh topology using Bicep modules | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/create-virtual-network-manager-bicep |

| Deploy AVNM network topologies with ARM templates | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/create-virtual-network-manager-template |

| Set up cross-tenant IPAM with Azure Virtual Network Manager | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/deploy-cross-tenant-ip-address-management |

| Deploy AVNM IPAM pools and CIDRs using Bicep | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/deploy-ip-address-management-pools-bicep |

| Configure AVNM cross-tenant connections with Azure CLI | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/how-to-configure-cross-tenant-cli |

| Configure cross-tenant connections in AVNM via portal | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/how-to-configure-cross-tenant-portal |

| Configure Azure Virtual Network Manager event logs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/how-to-configure-event-logs |

| Create AVNM user-defined routes in Azure portal | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/how-to-create-user-defined-route |

| Define dynamic AVNM network groups using Azure Policy | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/how-to-define-network-group-membership-azure-policy |

| Use IPAM pool association recommendations for AVNM VNets | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/how-to-ip-address-management-association-recommendations |

| Configure IPAM pools and CIDR management in AVNM | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/how-to-manage-ip-addresses-network-manager |

| Use network verifier to analyze VM reachability in AVNM | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/how-to-verify-reachability-with-virtual-network-verifier |

| Query Azure Virtual Network Manager with Azure Resource Graph | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/query-azure-resource-graph |

| Use ARM template samples for Azure Virtual Network Manager | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network-manager/resource-manager-template-samples |

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