Updates Archives
Monthly updates for April 2019
Azure Application Gateway Standard v2 and WAF v2 SKUs generally available
Azure Application Gateway Standard v2 and WAF v2 SKUs are now generally available and fully supported with a 99.95 SLA.
Azure AD entitlement management
Govern employee and partner access requests, approvals, auditing and reviews for any app integrated with Azure AD.
General availability: Azure Log Analytics in CENTRAL US, EAST US 2, EAST ASIA, WEST US and SOUTH CENTRAL US
CENTRAL US, EAST US 2, EAST ASIA, WEST US, and SOUTH Central US regions are now GA for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyse their services for health and usage by using Azure Log Analytics.
Retire and replace specific Security Center features on 31st July 2019
Target retirement date: July 31, 2019
Each of the Security Center features that are being retired can be replaced with new ones or existing features in Azure Log Analytics or Azure Sentinel Preview
The Azure US Gov Iowa region is being retired 30th April 2020
Target retirement date: April 30, 2020
We operate three additional US government regions, all of which provide similar or enhanced capabilities to the US Gov Iowa region, which is being retired.
General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service in North Central US and Japan West
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available in North Central US and Japan West.
PowerShell support in Azure Functions
With the preview of PowerShell support in Azure Functions, it is now possible to automate operational tasks and take advantage of the native Azure integration to modernise the delivering and management of services.
General availability: AzCopy v10
AzCopy v10, the next-generation data movement utility, is now generally available to all of our customers.
Azure Kubernetes Service: Kubernetes 1.9 end-of-life notice
On 24th April 2019, AKS released Kubernetes 1.13 support in GA. Per our supported-versions policy, this means that Kubernetes 1.9 support is reaching end of life.
Azure Site Recovery: Update Rollup 35 (March 2019)
Update Rollup 35 for Azure Site Recovery is now available.
Azure Site Recovery: Update Rollup 34 (Feb 2019)
Update Rollup 34 for Azure Site Recovery is now available.
Azure Site Recovery: Update Rollup 33 (February 2019)
Update Rollup 33 for Site Recovery is now available.
New governance setting for cache refreshes from Azure Analysis Services
The new ClientCacheRefreshPolicy property allows IT or the Analysis Services practitioner to disable automatic cache refreshes.
.NET for Apache Spark™ is now available
Apache Spark is now accessible to the .NET developer ecosystem with .NET for Apache Spark.
Update 19.04 for Azure Sphere public preview now available in Retail feed
The Azure Sphere public preview 19.04 quality release is available today via the Retail feed.
Managed MLflow and Managed Delta Lake on Azure Databricks are now available
Managed MLflow is now generally available on Azure Databricks and will use Azure Machine Learning to track the full ML lifecycle.
Group claims in Azure AD tokens
User group membership information can be emitted from SAML and OIDC/OAuth tokens issued by Azure AD so organisations so apps that require this information can be managed and secured from the cloud.
Changes to HDInsight cluster configuration access
We are introducing some important changes to support more fine-grained role-based access to sensitive configuration information from HDInsight clusters. As part of these changes, some user action may be required.
Public Preview: Microsoft adds full IPv6 support for Azure VNets
Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6 Connectivity allows you to bring your private IPv6 space into Azure and enables connectivity over IPv6 within your Virtual Networks.
Azure HDInsight is now available in China East 2
Four regions are available in China: China East, China North, China North 2 and China East 2.
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