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March 2024

22 Mar

Community support for Standard_M192ims_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

Target retirement date: March 19, 2027

Support for Standard_M192ims_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027.

  • Retirements
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
22 Mar

Community support for Standard_M192is_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

Support for Standard_M192is_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027.

  • Retirements
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
22 Mar

Some compliance features in Microsoft Defender for Cloud will be retired on September 30, 2025

Target retirement date: September 30, 2025

Microsoft Actions and Compliance offerings, two regulatory compliance features in public preview, will no longer be available through the Defender for Cloud portal pages starting September 30, 2025.

  • Security Center
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Retirements
22 Mar

Azure HDInsight 4.0 will be retired on 31 March 2025 - migrate your HDInsight clusters to 5.1

Target retirement date: March 31, 2025

Azure HDInsight 4.0 will be retired on 31 March 2025 - migrate your HDInsight clusters to 5.1

  • Retirements
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
22 Mar

Announcing Azure HPC Cache Retirement

Target retirement date: October 01, 2025

Azure HPC Cache is retiring. End of support is 30 September 2025.

  • Azure HPC Cache
  • Retirements
22 Mar

Announcing Avere vFXT for Azure Retirement

Target retirement date: October 01, 2025

Avere vFXT for Azure is retiring. End of support is 30 September 2025.

  • Avere vFXT for Azure
  • Retirements
15 Mar

Azure Classic Administrator roles are retiring on 31 August 2024

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

On 31 August 2024, Azure classic administrator roles will be retired. Transition from Azure Classic Administrator roles to RBAC roles

  • Retirements
  • Services
15 Mar

Visual Studio App Center retirement

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: March 31, 2025

Visual Studio App Center is scheduled for retirement on March 31, 2025.

  • App Centre
  • Retirements
15 Mar

Retirement: Support for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall v2 Configuration is ending

Target retirement date: March 15, 2027

On 15 March 2027, the Application Gateway WAF v2 Configuration will be retired. To continue using this service, switch to the Application Gateway WAF v2 Policy before the retirement date.

  • Web Application Firewall
  • Application Gateway
  • Security
  • Retirements
1 Mar

Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

Cloud Services (classic) retiring in August 2024.

  • Cloud Services
  • Retirements

February 2024

1 Feb

Support for log alert rules that use cross-workspace queries with resource names or qualified name identifiers will be retired on 31 May 2024

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: May 31, 2024

As of May 31, 2024, log alert rules will no longer support cross-workspace queries that use resource names or qualified name identifiers.

  • Alerts
  • Compliance
  • Retirements
  • Services
  • Features

January 2024

26 Jan

Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

Migrate your cloud services to a new deployment model before 31 August 2024.

  • Cloud Services
  • Retirements

December 2023

22 Dec

On 31 August 2024, both the update management feature of Azure Automation and the Log Analytics agent it uses will be retired

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

n 31 August 2024, both the update management feature of Azure Automation and the Log Analytics agent it uses will be retired

  • Retirements
22 Dec

Change tracking and inventory with Log Analytics agent in Azure Automation will be retired on 31 August 2024

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

On 31 August 2024, change tracking and inventory with Log Analytics agent in Azure Automation will be retired.

  • Retirements
15 Dec

Container insights recommended alerts (custom metrics) (preview) retirement moving up to 31 May 2024

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: June 01, 2024

Transition to Prometheus recommended alert rules (preview) before 31 May 2024.

  • Retirements
8 Dec

Retirement: Azure Container Apps preview API versions 2023-04-01-preview

Target retirement date: March 06, 2024

Azure Resource Manager API version 2023-04-01-preview will be retired in March 2024. Upgrade to a newer version before then.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Retirements
1 Dec

Standard and High-Performance VPN Gateway SKUs will be retired on 30 September 2025

Target retirement date: September 30, 2025

Standard and High-Performance VPN Gateway SKUs are retiring on September 30th, 2025

  • IP Addresses
  • VPN Gateway
  • Security
  • Retirements
1 Dec

Pod Security Policy is being deprecated with AKS 1.25 and 2023-06-01 API version

Target retirement date: October 14, 2025

Migrate your AKS cluster from Pod Security Policy to Pod Security Admission

  • Retirements
  • Features
1 Dec

Azure Object Anchors Retirement

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: May 21, 2024

Please note that Azure Object Anchors (AOA) will be retired on May 20, 2024. Object anchoring capability is generally available (GA) in Dynamics 365 Guides.

  • Retirements
1 Dec

Azure Spatial Anchors Retirement

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: November 21, 2024

Please note that Azure Spatial Anchors (ASA) will be retired on November 20, 2024.

  • Retirements

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