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General availability: Simplified disaster recovery for VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery
Target availability: Q4 2022
Today we’re officially announcing the general availability of a simpler, more reliable and modernised way to protect your VMware virtual machines using Azure Site Recovery, for recovering quickly from disasters.
Migrate to Azure Monitor VM insights by 30 September 2025 when Service Map will be retired
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
Azure Service Map will be retired on 30 September 2025.
September 2022
Azure unmanaged disks will be retired on 30 September 2025
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
Migrate your data from Azure unmanaged disk storage to managed disks before 30 September 2025.
August 2022
Generally available: Enforcement mode of machine configuration (previously guest configuration)
Set the configuration of your Azure Virtual Machine or Azure Arc-enabled server using the enforcement mode of machine configuration (formerly guest configuration).
July 2022
General availability: VM Applications – Manage and deploy applications to VMs and VMSS
VM Apps is a service that simplifies management, sharing, and global distribution of application packages at scale.
Public preview: Migration tools for Azure Monitor Agent
Migration to the cost-effective, secure, performant, and manageable new Azure Monitor agent is now made easy using migration tools and helpers.
Public preview: User-assigned Managed Identity support for Azure Monitor Agent
Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) provides a secure, cost-effective, simplified, performant way to collect telemetry data from IaaS resources. It now supports installation and authentication at-scale using Managed Identity user-assigned mode.
Generally available: Enabling JBoss EAP on Azure Red Hat OpenShift
You can now use jointly developed guidance from Red Hat and Microsoft to get JBoss EAP applications up and running quickly on Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
June 2022
Public preview: Connection Monitor Support for virtual machine scale sets
Azure Network Watcher Connection Monitor announces support for virtual machine scale sets which enables faster performance monitoring and network troubleshooting through connectivity checks.
Public preview: Network Watcher packet capture support for virtual machine scale sets
Azure Network Watcher packet capture announces support for virtual machines scale sets. This is as an out of the box, on-demand capability, enabling faster diagnostics and troubleshooting of networking issues.
March 2022
App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Migrate to App Service Environment version 3 by 31 August 2024.
Generally available: Azure Batch supports Spot Virtual Machines
Target availability: Q1 2022
Azure Batch supports Spot Virtual Machine's in user-subscription mode and is offered at a significantly reduced price compared with dedicated virtual machines.
General availability: Inbound NAT rule now supports port management for backend pools
You can now specify target backend pool in inbound NAT rule for less management overhead when configuring port forwarding.
February 2022
Public preview: Azure Monitor predictive autoscale for Azure virtual machine scale sets
Predictive autoscale for Azure virtual machine scale sets can manage and scale your virtual machine scale sets by observing and learning from historical CPU usage patterns.
Generally available: Azure Monitor agent extension support for automatic upgrade extension feature
Enable the ‘automatic extension upgrade’ feature on the Azure Monitor agent extension to automatically get new extension versions rolled out to your virtual machines and scale sets in Azure.
November 2021
Public preview: Run Command – Execute PowerShell or shell scripts on Virtual Machines and Scale Sets
The updated Run Commands are now management orientated, allows to run multiple scripts, track their progress and define Run Command resources in ARM templates to automate VM deployments.
Public preview: VM Applications – Manage and deploy applications to Virtual Machines and Scale Sets
With VM Applications, you can create and securely store application packages in an Azure Compute Gallery. Package management is greatly simplified with logical grouping and versioning capabilities and packages can be shared with other users in your organization, across subscriptions, and tenants.
Autoscale public preview is now available for Azure Virtual Desktop
Azure Virtual Desktop now supports autoscale for pooled host pools to help you optimize costs.
New orchestration mode for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets now generally available
Increase the availability at scale of business-critical applications with new Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets features. Simplify workload deployment, management, and scalability with Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode, now generally available.
October 2021
General availability: Ephemeral OS disks for Azure VMs support additional VM sizes
You now can choose where to store Ephemeral OS disks, either in VM temp disk or on VM cache. This enables Ephemeral OS disks to be created on more VM sizes that have sufficient temp disks.
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