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June 2019
Five GPT partitions are supported when using Mobility service for VMware disaster recovery
June 2019 - Up to five GPT partitions now supported for VMware VM disaster recovery
New ASC Threat Protection alerts for Azure Resource Manager (Preview)
Azure Security Center offers new security alerts (in preview) that detect unusual or potentially harmful operations using Azure Resource Manager service layer.
Use existing automation account for automatic updates of the Mobility service
May 2019 – Site Recovery now supports using an existing automation account for Mobility service automatic updates
Improved process server monitoring and reporting
May 2019 – Improved alerts for monitoring and troubleshooting Azure Site Recovery process servers.
Enable replication for added Azure VM data disks
May 2019 – Site Recovery supports enabling replication for data disks added to Azure VMs already enabled for disaster recovery.
HDInsight Tools for VSCode: Hive table preview
HDInsight for VSCode continues to boost the experience of Hive users with self-service exploratory capabilities. The HDInsight explorer in VSCode not only empowers you to browse Hive databases across…
First Microsoft cloud regions in Middle East now available
Azure and Office 365 generally available today, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform available by end of 2019.
Azure Monitor Log Analytics UI updates
We are happy to share with you the latest updates to Azure Monitor Log Analytics UI
Azure Site Recovery: Update Rollup 37 (June 2019)
The latest Site Recovery update is now available.
Azure Bastion – RDP and SSH over SSL – now available for preview
Fully managed service for seamless and secure RDP/SSH access to your virtual machines without public IP on the VM.
ExpressRoute now supports up to four circuits from the same peering location into the VNet
You can now connect up to four circuits in a peering location to the same ExpressRoute virtual network gateway.
Application Insights connector will retire on 30 June 2019
Application Insights Connector which provided a way to export Application Insights data to a Log Analytics workspace will retire on 30 June 2019.
Database engine auditing for Azure Database for MariaDB now in preview
Azure Database for MariaDB now provides preview support for database audit logging integrated with Azure Monitor Diagnostic Logs.
Database engine auditing for Azure Database for MySQL now in preview
Azure Database for MySQL now provides preview support for database audit logging integrated with Azure Monitor Diagnostic Logs.
Default backup retention period for DTU-based Azure SQL databases is changing soon
Target availability: Q3 2019
The default retention period for DTU-based Azure SQL databases is changing to 7 days
Security Center recommendations and their corresponding policy names are aligned
Now it is easier to find the relevant policy that match a recommendation and enable/disable it.
Adaptive network hardening in Security Center – now generally available
Adaptive network hardening provides recommendations to further harden the NSG rules
Improved integration of Azure Security Center with Azure Advisor is now available
You can now get clear visibility and reporting for your Azure Security Center recommendations in Azure Advisor
Azure SQL Database default configuration changing soon
Target availability: Q2 2019
With the latest Gen 5 hardware in place, we are making a change to the default configuration for all new Azure SQL databases and elastic pools.
Azure DevTest Labs: PowerShell module to simplify management of labs
PowerShell module now available to simplify management of labs
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