Updates Archives
Monthly updates for August 2019
New Azure Blockchain SDK updates with Truffle
Work more efficiently with the updated Azure Blockchain Development Kit by using our new interactive debugger.
Help protect large data disks Azure Site Recovery
Protect large data disks of up to 8 TB in size with Azure Site Recovery.
IoT Plug and Play Preview is now available
With IoT Plug and Play Preview, solution developers can start using Azure IoT Central to build solutions that integrate seamlessly with IoT devices enabled with IoT Plug and Play.
Azure Archive Expanded Capabilities now in public preview
Azure Archive Storage follows up price drop with three new feature enhancements in public preview.
Announcing new lower pricing for Azure Archive Storage
From 1 August, Azure Archive Storage dropped prices by up to 50% in some regions.
New Copy APIs for efficient data copy in Azure Blob Storage
Introducing a new set of copy APIs to enable efficient data transfer to Azure or inside Azure data centres.
Azure portal August 2019 feature update
This month, Azure portal has updates for Azure Security Center and a new experience for Azure Migrate.
General availability of Managed Identity for Linux in App Service and Functions
Managed identity support for App Service on Linux and the Azure Functions Linux Consumption plan is now generally available.
General availability of user-assigned managed identities for App Service and Azure Functions
App Service and Azure Functions support for user-assigned managed identities is now generally available.
New Quick Action transformations added to Data Factory Mapping Data Flows
Data Factory Mapping Data Flows has added a new “Quick Actions” feature to automate the creation of data transformations.
Update to Azure SQL Database serverless increases compute scale limits by 4x
We are now announcing the max vcore limit has increased by 4x to 16 vcores and provides greater compute scaling headroom for serverless databases with more demanding workloads.
Custom OpenID Connect identity providers for user flows in Azure AD B2C
Use any OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity provider in the built-in user flows in Azure AD B2C.
Microsoft Azure Ultra Disks now generally available
Microsoft Azure Ultra Disks is the new managed disks offering which is now generally available for running data-intensive business critical workloads on cloud requiring high IO performance and low latency
New enhancements to Azure Boards are now available
Azure Boards has new items that can help enhance your experience. For example, you can now customise system picklist values such as severity, activity and priority. In addition, rule support is now available for setting fields to read-only or required based on group membership. Finally, there’s a new extension that will allow you to create cascading picklists on your work item form.
Pass through an identity provider’s access token in Azure AD B2C
Applications can now get the identity provider’s access token passed through as part of the Azure AD B2C token.
Azure Service Fabric 6.5 Second Refresh Release is now available
Azure Service Fabric 6.5 Second Refresh Release rolled out last month with key announcements, along with bug fixes and performance enhancements.
Service Fabric Azure Resource Manager (ARM) application and service deployment is now generally available
The deployment of Service Fabric applications as resources via Azure Resource Manager is now generally available.
The service principal is now available for Power BI Embedded
Service principal allows you to access resources or perform operations using Power BI API without the need for a user to sign in or have a Power BI Pro licence.
Visual Authoring API for Power BI Embedded now available
The new Power BI Report Authoring SDK extension allows programmatic creation of visuals, binding them to columns, measures, hierarchies and personalising them by setting properties such as axis visibility and titles.
New tool for automating load testing of Power BI Embedded capacities now available
A tool for automating load testing of Power BI Embedded capacities helps you understand how much user load your capacity can handle when used. It uses PowerShell to create automated load tests against your capacities, and lets you choose which reports to test and how many concurrent users to simulate.
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