Updates Archives
Monthly updates for October 2018
Standard Load Balancer name changes
Effective December 1, 2018, the names of Azure Standard Load Balancer will change.
ExpressRoute for Azure DevOps—now available
ExpressRoute for Azure DevOps using Microsoft Peering is now available.
Simplified restore experience for Azure virtual machines
Azure Backup now offers an improved restore experience for Azure virtual machines by taking advantage of Resource Manager templates and managed disks.
Blob Storage GUID migration and name changes
Starting December 1, 2018, resource GUIDs and names for Blob Storage will change.
YAML improvements in Azure Pipelines - Sprint 142 Update
The Sprint 142 Update of Azure DevOps includes several improvements to YAML, new navigation for all users, a dark theme, and improved linking and attachments in Azure Boards.
Classic alerts in Azure Monitor to retire in June 2019
Target retirement date: August 31, 2019
The classic alerting and monitoring functionality in Azure Monitor is scheduled for retirement.
Public preview: Azure Container Instances support of managed identities
Azure Container Instances announces the public preview of managed identity support in all Container Instances regions.
General availability: Standard Load Balancer in Azure China cloud
Azure Standard Load Balancer is now generally available in Azure China cloud regions.
Azure AD activity logs integration with Azure Monitor Diagnostics and Azure Log Analytics is in public preview
Gain insights from Azure AD user activity logs stored in an Azure storage account and streamed to your preferred SIEM or custom environment, or integration with Azure Log Analytics tools directily in the Azure portal.
Azure DevTest Labs: Configure enforcing auto shutdown schedule for your lab
Configure enforcing auto shutdown schedule for your lab.
Deprecating older versions of the Azure API Management REST API
Target availability: Q4 2019
Older versions of the Azure API Management REST API are being deprecated and will be retired on October 1, 2019.
Send your Azure Active Directory data to Azure Log Analytics
The ability to forward your Azure Active Directory logs to Azure Log Analytics is now available.
General availability: Metric alerts for logs
Metric alerts for logs are generally available, enabling use of metric alerts for popular logs ingested by Log Analytics workspaces.
Power BI Embedded row-level security “username” property supports ASCII characters
The Power BI Embedded row-level security “username” property supports ASCII characters.
Power BI Embedded Update Datasources API to change connection between data sources
You can use the Power BI Embedded Update Datasources API to change the connection details between different data sources programmatically.
Power BI Embedded advanced URL filtering capabilities
Developers can define more filters with more complex definitions and operators with new URL filtering capabilities for reports.
Azure Site Recovery - Update Rollup 30
Update Rollup 30 for Azure Site Recovery is now available.
Health monitoring and alerts for Azure AD DS
You can monitor the health of your Azure Active Directory Domain Services managed domain and resolve configuration issues that affect your managed domain's health.
Disable NTLM, TLS v1 and secure your Azure AD DS managed domain
You can secure your Azure AD DS managed domain by disabling NTLM v1 support, TLS v1, and synchronization of NTLM password hashes from the on-premises Active Directory instance.
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