Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2019
General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service in South Africa North
Target availability: Q2 2019
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available in South Africa North.
Application Change Analysis for Azure Monitor is now in public preview
Change Analysis public preview with integration into App Services Diagnose and solve problems tool.
Application Insights Availability in US West Region
Application Insights is now available in US West region.
General availability: Zone-redundant SQL databases and elastic pools are now generally available in three additional regions
Target availability: Q2 2019
Zone-redundant SQL databases and elastic pools are now generally available in these additional regions: UK South, East US and East US 2.
Java on App Service: Updates and Improvements available
Target availability: Q2 2019
Improvements, bug fixes, and runtime version updates for the Java images on App Service Linux are now available
Filter by target branch in pull requests
In the Sprint 152 Update of Azure DevOps, we added the option to filter pull requests by target branch, several new command line commands and an extensibility point to allow extensions to add syntax highlighting and autocomplete to the file explorer and pull request views.
GPU and HPC VM Price Promotion now available
Announcing newly discounted promotional pricing for the NCv1, NVv1, and Hv1-series VM families.
General Availability: Azure DDoS Protection Standard introduces DDoS Alert integration with Azure Security Center
We are announcing the ability for DDoS Protection Standard customers to view DDoS Alerts in Azure Security Center (ASC) and this capability is generally available for all ASC and DDoS Standard customers.
Now available: PowerShell cmdlets for Azure Monitor metric and log alerts
PowerShell cmdlets for new metric alerts and log alerts are now available. This release improves the management of alert rules by providing cmdlets to create, update, delete and list new metric alerts. Similarly, new cmdlets are available for creating, updating, deleting and listing log alerts for both Log Analytics and Application Insights.
General Availability: Time zone choice for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
Time zone choice for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance eliminating need for any changes in the existing applications when migrating to cloud is now generally available.
Mapping Data Flows feature is now available in Azure Data Factory
The new Mapping Data Flows feature in Azure Data Factory allows Data Engineers to visually design, debug, manage, and operationalize data transformations at scale in the cloud.
Identity Secure Score in the Azure AD Portal
Gain visibility and control over your security posture by discovering opportunities that will help to improve security across your organization
Azure Monitor classic alerts retirement date extended to August 31st, 2019
Target retirement date: August 31, 2019
Azure Monitor classic alerts retirement date which was originally scheduled for June 30th, 2019 is being extended to August 31st, 2019 to provide customers more time to voluntarily migrate their classic alerts. You can migrate your classic alerts today using the migration tool. After August 31st, 2019 we will perform an automatic migration on your behalf.
Azure log integration tool deprecation
Target retirement date: June 15, 2019
Azure log integration (AzLog) tool will be deprecated on June 15, 2019.
Generation 2 virtual machines in Azure – Public Preview
Generation 2 (UEFI Boot) Virtual Machines available in Azure for public preview
Azure Security Center new analytics agent for Linux
Azure Security Center is beginning roll out of a new Azure Linux analytics agent to improve the onboarding of Linux VMs and servers to Security Center
Azure Monitor Dynamic Threshold meter name change
Effective July 1, 2019, the meter name for Dynamic Threshold feature in Azure Monitor will change.
Azure Search Document Cracking Image Extraction Resource GUID name change
Effective July 1, 2019, the Azure Search Document Cracking Image Extraction Resource GUID name will change.
Azure Search Basic Unit and Standard Unit Resource GUID change
Effective July 1, 2019, the resource GUIDs for Azure Search Basic Unit and Standard S1, S2 and S3 Unit for the Japan East region will change.
Azure App Service Basic, Standard, Premium v2 Plans Resource GUID change
On July 1, 2019, some resource GUIDs for Azure App Service Basic, Standard, and Premium v2 Plans will change as the global region resource GUIDs will break out into regional resource GUIDs.
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