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RSS feedMarch 2020
Unmanaged Azure Active Directory accounts update for March 2021
Target retirement date: March 31, 2021
Beginning March 31, 2021, Microsoft will no longer support the redemption of invitations by creating unmanaged Azure AD accounts and tenants for B2B collaboration scenarios.
February 2020
Service Management REST APIs and support will be retired on November 1, 2021
Target retirement date: November 01, 2021
To continue using Service Bus, Relay, and Event Hubs, please move your APIs to Azure Resource Manager.
A8 – A11 Azure Virtual Machine sizes will be retired on March 1, 2021
Target retirement date: March 01, 2021
We recommend moving your high performance computing (HPC) workloads to another HPC Virtual Machine size.
Cognitive Services Bing Speech API is being retired November 1, 2021
Target retirement date: November 01, 2021
To continue providing speech recognition and translation capabilities in your current Bing Speech applications, you’ll need to migrate them to Speech Services and the Speech SDK
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