Updates Archives
Monthly updates for September 2020
Azure Pipelines announces the general availability of scale-set agents
In the last two months, we improved the reliability in performing various scale-set operations. We have updated the guidance on how to improve the performance of provisioning new virtual machines.
Azure Time Series Insights now supports AAD groups
Target availability: Q3 2020
Azure Time Series Insights now supports Azure Active Directory groups through access policies.
Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series are now available in Southeast Asia
Confidential computing DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in East US, Canada Central, Canada East, Southeast Asia, UK South, West Europe, and West US 2.
Public Preview: Application Insight in UK West, Germany West Central, Switzerland West and Australia Central 2
UK West, Germany West Central, Switzerland West and Australia Central 2 are now Public Preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyze their services for health using Application Insight.
IoT Hub TLS certificate update
Microsoft is updating Azure services in a phased manner to use TLS certificates from a different set of Certificate Authorities.
Azure Sphere OS update 20.09 is now available for compatibility testing
The Azure Sphere 20.09 OS quality update is now available for evaluation via the Retail Eval feed.
Additional Azure SQL Database gateways changes effective October 12, 2020
Additional SQL Gateways are being added for Azure SQL Database in Germany West Central effective 12 October 2020.
Query Acceleration for Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available
Query Acceleration for Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available in all Azure regions.
Azure Synapse SQL on-demand now enforces TLS 1.2 on outbound connections
Azure Synapse SQL on-demand is now enforcing TLS 1.2 for outbound connections used by all SQL client applications.
Azure Cloud Services – Introducing support for Resource Health
Azure Resource Health now provides live health status and status history for Azure Cloud Services deployments and roles.
Update .NET to 4.7.2 for Azure Data Factory upgrade by 01 Dec 2020
Target availability: Q4 2020
Update .NET Framework runtime to 4.7.2 or above to allow upgrade of Azure Data Factory self-hosted integration runtime by 01 Dec 2020
Custom Translator—September new features, improvements and bug fixes
Review the Microsoft Custom Translator new features, improvements, bug fixes, and new/refreshed models for September 2020.
Azure Blob storage object replication is now generally available
Object replication allows you to replicate your block blob data at the blob level from one storage account to another anywhere in the Azure.
Change feed support is now generally available for Azure Blob Storage
Change feed support for Microsoft Azure Blob storage is now generally available.
The Azure Monitor Logs page now links to the community GitHub repo
Writing queries can be challenging. The Azure Monitor Logs page now links to hundreds of community-shared examples, so you don't need to start from scratch.
Automatic VM guest patching is now in public preview
Automatic VM guest patching provides safe and automatic patching for virtual machines to simplify update management and maintain security compliance.
Azure SQL Database Gateway with IP address 23.99.160.139 in Central US will be deactivated on 15 September 2020
Sql Gateway IP address 23.99.160.139 in Central US will be deactivated on 15 September 2020, and it will no longer accept any traffic after that date.
Azure Monitor for containers agent (ciprod08072020) update
Azure monitor for containers new agent (ciprod08072020) will support new features & fixes such as monitoring support of deployments & Horizontal Pod Autoscaler(HPAs), displaying correct node status & health(tab) access through limited preview program.
Azure Data Explorer Kafka Connector - Improved delivery guarantees, schema registry support, and Confluent certification
Azure Data Explorer Kafka connector now supports schema registry, additional converters, "at least once" delivery guarantees, improved and configurable retries, behavior on error, and is Confluent gold certified.
Begin migrating your codespaces to GitHub Codespaces
Target retirement date: February 17, 2021
To simplify our user experience, Visual Studio Codespaces is transitioning to GitHub Codespaces, and the current Azure service will retire on 17 February 2021.
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