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October 2023

20 Oct

Changes to My Groups admin controls

IN DEVELOPMENT

Target retirement date: June 30, 2024

New settings will enable admins to restrict end users from viewing and editing security groups in My Groups. The existing settings that allow enabling or disabling of My Groups will be retired in June 2024.

  • Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)
  • Retirements
  • Security

April 2023

19 Apr

General Availability: Support for Linux clients to use identity-based access to Azure file shares over SMB

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2023

Linux SMB clients can now use Azure Files identity based authentication and authorization. This capability is available to devices that are domain joined to either customer-managed Microsoft AD DS or Azure AD DS.

  • Azure Files
  • Storage Accounts
  • Premium Files Storage
  • Open Source
  • Features

January 2023

18 Jan

General Availability: Active Directory Connector for Arc-enabled SQL MI

NOW AVAILABLE

Active Directory Connector (ADC) for Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance is now available to perform Active Directory authentication.

  • Services
  • Features

June 2022

20 Jun

General availability: LDAP signing

NOW AVAILABLE

Feature has reached general availability.

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features

April 2022

11 Apr

Generally available: DNS reservations to prevent subdomain takeover in Cloud Services deployments

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2022

As a preventive measure, DNS record is reserved for seven days to allow clean-up of dangling DNS domains or reclaim from same Azure Active Directory tenant only.

  • Cloud Services
  • Features
  • Security

November 2020

11 Nov

Support for Oracle WebLogic Server on Azure Kubernetes Service is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

This initial release of solutions jointly developed between Microsoft and Oracle enables you to bring your WebLogic workloads to a managed Kubernetes service on Azure.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Services
  • Features
9 Nov

Azure HDInsight ID Broker (HIB) is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

HDInsight ID Broker (HIB) provides modern OAuth authentication and enables federated users to login to cluster without syncing on-premise password hashes to the cloud.

  • HDInsight
  • Security

July 2020

14 Jul

Revocation of non-compliant Certificate Authorities potentially impacting customer’s Azure service(s).

NOW AVAILABLE

Recent reports detailed Certificate Authorities that were not compliant with industry standards for trusted CAs. As per industry requirements, non-compliant CAs are being revoked requiring customers certificates to be re-issued.

  • App Service
  • API Management
  • Application Gateway
  • Content Delivery Network
  • Azure Front Door
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Security

May 2020

19 May

Azure HDInsight enterprise security enhancements

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2020

Azure HDInsight enterprise security enhancements include support for customer-managed key encryption with Azure Key Vault and a new feature, ID broker, which simplifies authentication setups.

  • HDInsight
  • Features
  • Security

March 2020

4 Mar

Active Directory for authentication on SMB access to Azure File in preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Files Active Directory (AD) Authentication is now in preview. Use it to mount your Azure Files using AD credentials with the exact same access control experience as on-premises.

  • Azure Files
  • Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)
  • Features
  • Security

February 2020

27 Feb

We are retiring Azure AD Domain Services classic VNET support on 1st March, 2023

Target retirement date: March 01, 2023

In 2017, Azure AD Domain Services became available to host in an Azure Resource Manager network. Since then, we have been able to build a more secure service using the Azure Resource Manager‘s modern capabilities.

  • Microsoft Entra Domain Services
  • Retirements
  • Security

December 2019

20 Dec

Azure Active Directory Domain Services meter name changes

The meter names of Azure Active Directory Domain Services directory objects will change between 10th December 2019 and 1st February 2020. The name changes will be in effect to accommodate upcoming enhancements. This will not impact existing service behavior, only the name you see on your bill.

  • Microsoft Entra Domain Services
  • Services
  • Security

August 2019

7 Aug

Azure Files Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication with Azure AD domain services is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Files offers fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible via the industry standard SMB protocol. Integration with Azure AD enables SMB access to Azure file shares using Azure AD credentials from Azure AD domain services domain joined Windows VMs.

  • Azure Files
  • Features

April 2019

10 Apr

Home realm discovery during sign-in for Microsoft 365 services

IN DEVELOPMENT

We are changing our Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) sign-in behaviour to make room for new authentication methods and improve usability. During sign-in, Azure AD determines where a user needs to authenticate. Azure AD makes intelligent decisions by reading organisation and user settings for the username entered on the sign-in page. This is a step towards a password-free future that enables additional credentials like FIDO 2.0.

  • Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)
  • Services
  • Features
  • Security

February 2019

25 Feb

Support for Enterprise Security Package–enabled HDInsight clusters in Azure Data Factory

You can use Azure Data Factory to operationalise your Azure HDInsight Spark and Hadoop workloads against HDInsight clusters with Enterprise Security Package that are joined to an Active Directory domain.

  • Data Factory
  • Data Factory V2
  • Features

October 2018

17 Oct

Health monitoring and alerts for Azure AD DS

You can monitor the health of your Azure Active Directory Domain Services managed domain and resolve configuration issues that affect your managed domain's health.

  • Microsoft Entra Domain Services
  • Features
  • Security
17 Oct

Disable NTLM, TLS v1 and secure your Azure AD DS managed domain

NOW AVAILABLE

You can secure your Azure AD DS managed domain by disabling NTLM v1 support, TLS v1 and synchronisation of NTLM password hashes from the on-premises Active Directory instance.

  • Microsoft Entra Domain Services
  • Features
  • Security
17 Oct

Azure AD DS now supports Azure managed disks

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure AD DS managed domains gain greater availability and resilience with support for Azure managed disks.

  • Microsoft Entra Domain Services
  • Managed Disks
  • Features
  • Security
17 Oct

General availability: HDInsight Hadoop Enterprise Security Package

NOW AVAILABLE

Easily set up an HDInsight cluster with Enterprise Security Package that is joined to an Azure AD DS managed domain.

  • HDInsight
  • Microsoft Entra Domain Services
  • Features
  • Security
17 Oct

Public preview: Azure AD authentication for Azure Files SMB access

IN PREVIEW

Secure your Azure Files SMB shares by using your Azure AD DS managed domain.

  • Azure Files
  • Microsoft Entra Domain Services
  • Features
  • Security

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