Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2018
Azure Active Directory B2B Collaboration improvements
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) B2B Collaboration now has an improved experience for giving partners access to business resources, while also supporting organizations' obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Visualize release progress—VSTS Sprint 135 Update
The Sprint 135 Update of Visual Studio Team Services brings a new way to visualize all your release activity.
General availability: Soft delete for Azure Storage blobs
Soft delete for Azure Storage is available in all regions for public, government, and sovereign clouds.
Refresh 2 release for Azure File Sync preview
If you want to take your current deployment of Azure File Sync seamlessly to the upcoming GA release, be sure to update your server agent to Refresh 2.
Public preview: Virtual network service endpoints for Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Virtual network service endpoints for Azure Database for PostgreSQL are in public preview.
Public preview: Virtual network service endpoints for Azure Database for MySQL
Virtual network service endpoints for Azure Database for MySQL are in public preview.
Name changes: Azure SQL Database long-term backup retention for Australia
Effective July 1, 2018, long-term retention RA-GRS backup storage charges for Australia Central and Australia Central 2 customers will be renamed to long-term retention backup storage charges on invoices.
Log Analytics query language recommendations for Summarize and Join operators
For the Summarize and Join operators, we recommend that you modify your query syntax where applicable in saved searches and alerts, to avoid result ambiguity.
General availability: Data-in Replication for Azure Database for MySQL
Azure Database for MySQL supports Data-in Replication.
Deprecating older versions of the Azure Site Recovery REST API
Target availability: Q3 2018
Older versions of the Azure Site Recovery REST API will be deprecated on July 31, 2018.
General availability: Log alerts for Application Insights
Log alerts for Application Insights are generally available as part of Azure Monitor.
Azure Storage Explorer
Explorer allows users easily manage different storage entities in one place from Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Azure Media Services and Video Indexer
Azure Media Services and Video Indexer make it easy to integrate advanced media processing and AI-based media metadata extraction on your apps and workflows.
Azure Sphere
Azure Sphere is an industry-first solution that combines the power of a new class of microcontroller (MCU) with built-in security, a purpose-built OS that’s optimized for security and agility, and a cloud security service that guards every device.
Azure IoT solution accelerators
At Build, we announced the latest update of Azure IoT Remote Monitoring, a solution accelerator that is fully operational right out of the box.
Visual Studio Team Services | Release Management release gates
Visual Studio Team Services, a cloud-hosted DevOps service, features capabilities such as Agile planning, Git source control, Cloud Build, Release Management (including continuous integration and delivery [CI/CD] pipelines), Test Manager, and Package Management. We’ve added the Release Management release gates capability to Team Services.
Visual Studio Team Services | Azure DevOps Projects
Use Azure DevOps Projects to start running your application on Azure App Service or Virtual Machine hosts.
Visual Studio App Center | App Center and GitHub integration
Visual Studio App Center and GitHub integration gives mobile developers a continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) solution at their fingertips to automate the build-test-distribute process for iOS and Android apps.
Azure Blockchain Workbench
Azure Blockchain Workbench, a new developer tool, makes it easier to build blockchain applications on Azure. With a few clicks, deploy an Azure-supported blockchain network that’s pre-integrated with a set of cloud services commonly needed to create working blockchain applications, such as Azure Active Directory, Key Vault, and SQL Database.
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