Updates Archives
Monthly updates for March 2019
Azure Security Center policy migration to Azure Policy
Azure Security Center policy updates are now performed from Azure Policy.
Azure Security Center update: Secure score for compliance metrics
Use secure score to evaluate your security posture in Azure Security Center.
Azure Security Center update: Azure App Service recommendation improvements
Azure App Service security recommendations have been improved to provide greater accuracy and environment compatibility.
Azure portal March 2019 update
Learn about updates to the Azure portal for March 2019, including Virtual Network Gateway overview page changes, new full-screen DNS Zone and Load Balancer create blades, and Azure Management Group integration with Activity Log.
Update 19.03 for Azure Sphere public preview now available for evaluation
We now support both a Retail Evaluation feed and a Retail feed for the Azure Sphere OS.
Azure Log Analytics is now General Available in Australia East and in Australia Central
Australia East and Australia Central are now GA for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyze their services for health and usage using Azure Log Analytics.
Service Map available in Central Canada and UK South
Service Map is now available in Central Canada and UK South.
Application Insights is now available in France Central and Korea Central
Application Insights is now available in France Central and Korea Central.
Upcoming change to Azure Monitor Application Insights Smart Detection emails
On April 1, 2019, we’re changing the default roles that receive email notifications from Azure Monitor Application Insights Smart Detection. The new default roles are Monitoring Reader and Monitoring Contributor.
Azure Resource Manager template language additions
We've added a few new items to the Azure Resource Manager template language: conditional outputs, array copy, and functions for a newGuid() and utcNow().
AKS 2019-03-07 release
The AKS 2019-03-07 release contains bug fixes and a new version of the Azure Monitor for containers agent.
Azure South Africa regions are now available
Azure services are available from new cloud regions in Johannesburg (South Africa North) and Cape Town (South Africa West), South Africa. The launch of these regions is a milestone for Microsoft.
HDInsight networking resources provisioned in the HDInsight resource group
The networking resources (such as NICs and load balancers) for new Azure HDInsight clusters created in a virtual network are now provisioned in the same HDInsight cluster resource group.
Azure Monitor for VMs (preview) available in Central Canada and UK South
Azure Monitor for VMs (preview) is now available in Central Canada and UK South. Around the world, it's available in six public regions.
Clone Visual API for Power BI Embedded
You can use the Clone Visual API to make copies of an existing visual.
Themes API for Power BI Embedded
You can use the Themes API to apply a custom theme to your embedded report, such as corporate colors, seasonal coloring, or other custom styles.
Control all Power BI Embedded visual menu actions programmatically
The Options and Context Menus APIs have been extended to provide full control for each visual in the report on built-in commands and custom commands.
APIs for Power BI app content
You can use a new set of APIs to get a list of your Power BI installed apps and their content.
Schedule DirectQuery cache refresh for Power BI Embedded
Use the REST API for Power BI Embedded to set the cache refresh of a DirectQuery or live connection dataset.
Schedule refreshes with the Power BI Embedded REST API
The new REST API enables you to set a new refresh schedule or override the configuration of an existing schedule.
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