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Monthly updates for October 2018

17 Oct

Power BI Embedded capacity monitoring app

NOW AVAILABLE

Power BI has released a new capacity monitoring app that helps you make more informed and data-driven decisions when managing your Power BI Embedded capacity.

  • Power BI Embedded
  • Features
17 Oct

Azure AD DS now supports Azure managed disks

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure AD DS managed domains gain greater availability and resilience with support for Azure managed disks.

  • Microsoft Entra Domain Services
  • Managed Disks
  • Features
  • Security
17 Oct

General availability: HDInsight Hadoop Enterprise Security Package

NOW AVAILABLE

Easily set up an HDInsight cluster with Enterprise Security Package that's joined to an Azure AD DS managed domain.

  • HDInsight
  • Microsoft Entra Domain Services
  • Features
  • Security
17 Oct

Public preview: Azure AD authentication for Azure Files SMB access

IN PREVIEW

Secure your Azure Files SMB shares by using your Azure AD DS managed domain.

  • Azure Files
  • Microsoft Entra Domain Services
  • Features
  • Security
17 Oct

Improved synchronization performance from Azure AD to Azure AD DS managed domain

NOW AVAILABLE

We've improved performance of synchronization from Azure AD to your Azure AD DS managed domain.

  • Microsoft Entra Domain Services
  • Features
  • Security
17 Oct

Scoped synchronization from Azure AD to your Azure AD DS managed domain

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now choose which sets of user accounts should be synchronized into an Azure Active Directory Domain Services managed domain.

  • Microsoft Entra Domain Services
  • Features
  • Security
17 Oct

Fine-grained password policy support in Azure AD DS

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Active Directory Domain Services now supports custom fine-grained password lifetime policies.

  • Microsoft Entra Domain Services
  • Features
  • Security
17 Oct

Azure App Service: Price reductions for App Service on Linux basic and premium tiers

NOW AVAILABLE

We’ve recently reduced prices for Azure App Service on Linux for the basic and premium tiers.

  • App Service (Linux)
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
17 Oct

Azure Cognitive Services available in new regions

NOW AVAILABLE

New regions are now available for Azure Cognitive Services. The Content Moderator, Computer Vision, Face, Translator Text, and Language Understanding (LUIS) Services are now generally available in US Government regions.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
17 Oct

Azure SQL Database dev/test pricing available as part of Azure Enterprise dev/test offer

NOW AVAILABLE

Now generally available for vCore-based resource types in Azure SQL Database (excluding Managed Instance), dev/test pricing provides a cost-effective way to run your development and testing workloads on Azure SQL Database. With dev/test pricing for Azure SQL Database, you can save up to 55 percent versus list prices.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Services
16 Oct

Public preview: Virtual network integration for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1

IN PREVIEW

Virtual network integration for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 1 to secure your Data Lake Storage accounts is in public preview.

  • Services
  • Features
16 Oct

Application Insights is available in Central India and Canada Central

NOW AVAILABLE

Application Insights is now available in Central India and Canada Central.

  • Application Insights
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
15 Oct

Azure Security Center update September 2018

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2018

New features are in preview for Azure Security Center.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Services
  • Features
  • Security
15 Oct

Limited public preview: Premium blobs in the Azure portal

IN PREVIEW

You can create and manage premium blob storage accounts from the Azure portal. This preview is available in the US East 2, US Central, and US West regions.

  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Management
  • Features
12 Oct

Azure IoT Edge 1.0.3 release

NOW AVAILABLE

The 1.0.3 update of Azure IoT Edge includes only a fix for a security vulnerability in a dependency of the runtime.

  • Features
12 Oct

Azure API Management update October 11

Learn about the latest regular update to Azure API Management.

  • API Management
  • Features
11 Oct

Ability to Diagnose and resolve hybrid identity directory errors is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Identify and remediate directory errors caused by duplicate user attributes and orphaned objects, which complicate synchronizing your AD and Azure AD hybrid identity environment.

  • Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)
  • Features
  • Security
11 Oct

Azure Container Instances now available in Central India and South Central US

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2018

Azure Container Instances supports Linux and Windows containers in two new regions: Central India (Pune) and South Central US (Texas).

  • Azure Container Instances
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
9 Oct

Azure Security Center update - Ignite 2018

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2018

This update contains new features announced as generally available at Ignite 2018.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Services
  • Features
  • Security
9 Oct

Integrate Office 365 data at scale into Azure by using Data Factory

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Factory added a new capability that enables secured, governed, and scalable access of Office 365 data in Azure.

  • Azure Data Factory
  • Features

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