Updates Archives
Monthly updates for January 2016
General availability: Azure Automation Desired State Configuration
With Azure Automation Desired State Configuration, you can consistently deploy, reliably monitor, and automatically update the desired state of all your IT resources, at scale, from the cloud.
Azure Search: Lucene query syntax fully supported
Write more powerful queries in Azure Search with the full Lucene query language.
Classic network security groups available in portal
You can now manage classic network security groups via the Azure portal.
Enhanced migration and disaster recovery for VMware using ASR
ASR’s enhanced VMware to Azure scenario is now Generally Available.
Azure DevTest Labs: January 2016 update
New features are available in Azure DevTest Labs, including the capability to apply artifacts to an existing lab VM, better support for artifact repository management, more Resource Manager template support and samples, and premium storage support.
Azure Data Lake tools for Visual Studio: December update
This update to the Data Lake tools for Visual Studio adds local run and editing improvements.
Azure Search: Search Explorer available
Query your Azure Search indexes and see search results directly from the Azure portal.
Azure Automation: Graphical and PowerShell runbooks added to Gallery
To help with common automation tasks, four new graphical runbooks and two new PowerShell runbooks are available in the Automation gallery.
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