Updates Archives
Monthly updates for October 2019
The unique identifier for your Azure billing account has changed
Your billing account’s unique identifier, which is used to identify your billing relationship with Microsoft, has changed. This change only affects accounts under the Microsoft Customer Agreement with Microsoft – it doesn’t affect other agreements such as Enterprise Agreement.
Azure API Management update – October 2019, Number 2
A regular Azure API Management service update started on 25 October 2019, and included the following new features, bug fixes, changes and improvements. We deploy updates gradually and it takes over a week for every active API Management service instance to receive them.
New Azure IoT Central features available
At IoT Solutions World Congress, we are excited to announce several new Azure IoT Central features designed to help solution builders take their IoT projects from proof of concept to production level.
Event Grid on IoT Edge is now available in preview
Azure Event Grid is now available on Azure IoT Edge
Azure API for FHIR and our growing ecosystem of partners
When building an end-to-end solution around Azure API for FHIR, you may need the help of a partner. A list of partners with unique IP or with experience building with Azure API for FHIR has been curated for you.
Azure Service Fabric 6.5 fifth refresh release
The Azure Service Fabric 6.5 fifth refresh release includes bug fixes and performance enhancements.
Azure Cost Management features in development – October 2019
New Azure Cost Management features are currently in development and should be available in the next few months.
Changes are coming to the Azure Sphere SDK in the next release
The next release of the Azure Sphere SDK will bring significant enhancements in response to great feedback from the community.
Azure Notification Hubs updates for iOS 13
Azure Notification Hubs updates for iOS 13 – Apple’s update to the push notification service and its impact to Azure Notification Hubs customers.
Azure Resource Graph – New join support functionality is now available
Azure Resource Graph now supports join, enabling you to correlate between resources and their properties.
Cost Management features available as of October 2019
Here are the Cost Management features that are generally available as of October 2019.
Cost Management preview features October 2019
Please find a table below outlining the Cost Management features that are currently in preview.
New Azure Boards and Azure Repos app for Microsoft Teams
In the latest Azure DevOps update, we added new Microsoft Teams apps for Azure Boards and Azure Repos. The Azure Boards app will let you monitor work item activity and create work items from your Microsoft Teams channel. On the other hand, the Azure Repos app will allow you to monitor your repositories.
SR-IOV availability schedule on NCv3 Virtual Machines SKU
As part of Azure’s ongoing commitment to providing industry-leading performance, we are enabling support for all MPI types and versions, and RDMA verbs for InfiniBand-equipped virtual machines, beginning with NCv3 coming in early November 2019.
SR-IOV availability on NCv3 Virtual Machines SKU
We are announcing enhancements to enable support for all MPI implementations and versions, and RDMA verbs for InfiniBand-equipped virtual machines, beginning with NCv3 coming in early November 2019.
Azure Backup support for large disks up to 32 TB is now generally available
Azure Backup support for larger and more powerful Azure Managed Disks of up to 32 TB is now generally available. No user action is required to get the backups running for the large sized disks, if the virtual machine is already configured with Azure Backup.
Performance-optimised storage configuration for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
Self-installations of SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines can now benefit from performance-optimised storage configurations when they register with Resource Provider.
Azure Advisor cost recommendation enhancements
Advisor has made enhancements to its popular cost recommendation to resize or shut down under-utilised virtual machines. Although certain scenarios result in low utilisation by design, you can often save money by managing the size and number of your virtual machines.
Azure Monitor updates – Containers for China regions, Grafana dashboard template, Agent
Updates on Azure Monitor for containers for China Region, Grafana dashboard template and Agent.
Updates to Azure Monitor for virtual machines (preview) before general availability release
Updates to Azure Monitor for virtual machines (preview) will be launched in mid-November, 2019, ahead of the general availability (GA) release.
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