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April 2019
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.
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.
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.
Public Preview: Resource Change History API
With the last 14 days of resource changes, the public preview of the new Change History capability within the Azure Resource Graph API enables you to find when changes were detected on an Azure Resource Manager property and see what properties changed as part of that change event.
Virtual WAN Scale Unit name changes
On June 1, 2019, the meter names for Virtual WAN Scale Unit will change.
Resource GUID changes for Event Hubs Dedicated Capacity Unit
On June 1, 2019, the meter IDs for Azure Event Hubs Dedicated will change.
Service Bus US Government resource GUID and naming impacts
On June 1, 2019, the meter IDs and meter names of Service Bus will change.
Service Bus Standard Base Unit name change
On June 1, 2019, the unit of measure for the Service Bus Standard Base Unit Germany resource GUID will change.
Azure Batch updates now available
Here are the latest new or enhanced capabilities for Azure Batch, available now.
General Availability: New Azure Monitor alerts experience available in Azure Government
New Azure Monitor alerts experience is now available in Azure Government.
General Availability: Azure Monitor for containers is now available in Azure China
Azure Monitor for containers is now general available in Azure China.
Azure reservations: New experience and APIs for purchasing reservations
Azure reservation updates include new purchase experience and APIs.
General availability: Azure Availability Zones in Japan East
Azure Availability Zones, a high-availability solution for mission-critical applications, is now generally available in Japan East.
Reserved Capacity Pricing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now generally available
Starting today, you can now use the Azure SQL Data Warehouse Reserved Capacity pricing to reserve compute power for existing and future clusters. This option provides you savings up to 65% cDWU capacity.
Azure API Management update April 19
Learn about the latest regular update in Azure API Management update.
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