Updates Archives
Monthly updates for October 2017
Preview: Update management, inventory, and change tracking in Azure Automation
Azure Automation now supports update management, inventory, and change tracking. These capabilities are currently in preview.
Retirement of the PHP 5.5 runtime from App Service
Target availability: Q1 2018
To avoid the potential for security issues on App Service, we plan to retire our support of PHP 5.5 in January 2018. Currently, we support PHP 5.6, 7.0, and 7.1.
Azure DevTest Labs: Set access rights to an environment resource group
You can now set Contributor access rights on a resource group that contains your environment, so that you have the flexibility of modifying your environment objects.
Auto-renewal of SSL certificates in App Service
All SSL certificates issued for Azure App Service before March 31, 2017, will receive an email to re-verify their domain at the time of renewal. You'll get this email even if auto-renewal is enabled for your certificate.
General availability (Windows) and preview (Linux): Accelerated Networking
Accelerated Networking is now in an expanded preview.
Azure DevTest Labs: Data Science and Bitnami images available in your lab
Data science and Bitnami images are available in your lab.
Public preview: Azure subscription cost reporting and analysis for enterprise customers
Azure EA users can view and analyze their subscription costs across different pivots in the Azure portal.
Azure DevTest Labs: New action to restart a Lab VM
You can restart your lab virtual machines by using the Restart button.
General availability: Azure AD DS in the new Azure portal
Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS) support in the new Azure portal is generally available.
General availability: Azure AD DS support for Resource Manager virtual networks
Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS) now supports virtual networks created through the Azure Resource Manager deployment model.
Azure DevTest Labs: Unclaim a VM and return it to the claimable pool
You can unclaim a VM and return it to the claimable pool for reuse.
Azure networking available only in the Azure portal from October 4
Azure Networking features will be available only in the Azure portal from October 4th, 2017. Networking related feature support from the classic Portal will be deprecated starting October 4th.
Azure Data Lake Analytics introduces capabilities to manage pipelines and recurring jobs
Azure Data Lake Analytics can help you easily organize, manage, and gain insights from Data Lake Analytics jobs that are running as part of pipelines or on a recurring basis.
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