Azure portal October update
Published date: 22 October, 2018
The following updates were made to the Azure portal in October 2018:
Portal shell and UI
- User experience refresh
- Account, subscription and directory management improvements
Quickstart Center
- Microsoft-recommended best practices to set up your Azure environment
Compute, networking and storage
- Blades for virtual machine and storage account creation now in full-screen
- UI updates for virtual machine scale sets
- Azure Advisor notifications and other integrated experiences in Azure Virtual Machines
- Azure Service Fabric Mesh new portal experience
- Desired State Configuration on the Virtual Machine blade
- Virtual WAN portal experience
- Azure Application Gateway Web Application Firewall UI updates
Management tools
- Activity Log UI improvements
- Managed Applications UI updates for Service Catalogue
- Managed Applications new default overview and monitoring support
- Azure Automation with support for Python 2 runbooks
Databases
- Azure SQL Database sign-in experience with improved visibility for the query editor
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse maintenance window configuration
For more details, see the blog post.