Updates Archives
Monthly updates for April 2019
Azure Application Gateway Standard v2 and WAF v2 SKUs generally available
Azure Application Gateway Standard v2 and WAF v2 SKUs are now generally available and fully supported with a 99.95 SLA.
Azure AD entitlement management
Govern employee and partner access requests, approvals, auditing and reviews for any app integrated with Azure AD.
PowerShell support in Azure Functions
With the preview of PowerShell support in Azure Functions, it is now possible to automate operational tasks and take advantage of the native Azure integration to modernise the delivering and management of services.
Azure Site Recovery: Update Rollup 35 (March 2019)
Update Rollup 35 for Azure Site Recovery is now available.
Azure Site Recovery: Update Rollup 34 (Feb 2019)
Update Rollup 34 for Azure Site Recovery is now available.
Azure Site Recovery: Update Rollup 33 (February 2019)
Update Rollup 33 for Site Recovery is now available.
New governance setting for cache refreshes from Azure Analysis Services
The new ClientCacheRefreshPolicy property allows IT or the Analysis Services practitioner to disable automatic cache refreshes.
Group claims in Azure AD tokens
User group membership information can be emitted from SAML and OIDC/OAuth tokens issued by Azure AD organisations so apps that require this information can be managed and secured from the cloud.
Azure Active Directory activity logs integration with Diagnostics Logs for Azure Monitor and Log Analytics in Azure Monitor
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 Log Analytics in Azure Monitor directly in the Azure portal.
Azure Batch updates now available
Here are the latest new or enhanced capabilities for Azure Batch, available now.
Azure reservations: New experience and APIs for purchasing reservations
Azure reservation updates include new purchase experience and APIs.
Azure API Management update 19 April
Learn about the latest regular update in Azure API Management update.
Service Fabric Mesh preview - spring update for features in development
Service Fabric Mesh preview is being updated with some new features, as well as improvements based on feedback that we've received.
Server-level collations in Managed Instance are globally available
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance now brings even more application compatibility by offering a choice of server-level collation to meet the needs of the existing applications that should be migrated to azure cloud. This eliminates need for changes in the existing applications that are not using SQL Server instances with default server-level collation when they are migrated to Azure cloud
Azure Container Registry singularity image files (SIF) support is now in preview
Support for storing singularity image files (SIF) in Azure Container Registry based on the OCI distribution-based container registries specification is now available in preview.
Pod Security Policy for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now available in preview
Pod Security Policy enables customers to control sensitive aspects of a pod specification by defining a set of conditions that a pod must run with in order to be accepted.
Azure Logic Apps tools for Visual Studio 2019
Azure Logic Apps tools for Visual Studio 2019 is now available.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Read Replica is now generally available
Azure Database for PostgreSQL now supports asynchronous replication of data from one Azure Database for PostgreSQL server to up to five servers in the same region.
Azure Database for MariaDB: New compute options are now generally available
Azure Database for MariaDB now supports even larger workloads and helps you to accommodate future growth.
Announcing Azure Backup support to move Recovery Services vaults across subscriptions and resource groups
Announcing the GA support for move functionality for recovery services vaults, where you can migrate a vault between subscriptions and resource groups in just a few steps, in minimal downtime and without any data loss of old backups. You can move the RS vault and retain recovery points of protected VMs to restore to at any time.
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