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Monthly updates for April 2019

30 Apr

Azure Application Gateway Standard v2 and WAF v2 SKUs generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Application Gateway Standard v2 and WAF v2 SKUs are now generally available and fully supported with a 99.95 SLA.

  • Application Gateway
  • Security
  • Features
30 Apr

Azure AD entitlement management

IN PREVIEW

Govern employee and partner access requests, approvals, auditing and reviews for any app integrated with Azure AD.

  • Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)
  • Security
  • Features
29 Apr

PowerShell support in Azure Functions

IN PREVIEW

With the preview of PowerShell support in Azure Functions, it is now possible to automate operational tasks and take advantage of the native Azure integration to modernise the delivering and management of services.

  • Azure Functions
  • Services
  • Features
25 Apr

Azure Site Recovery: Update Rollup 35 (March 2019)

NOW AVAILABLE

Update Rollup 35 for Azure Site Recovery is now available.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Features
25 Apr

Azure Site Recovery: Update Rollup 34 (Feb 2019)

NOW AVAILABLE

Update Rollup 34 for Azure Site Recovery is now available.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Features
25 Apr

Azure Site Recovery: Update Rollup 33 (February 2019)

NOW AVAILABLE

Update Rollup 33 for Site Recovery is now available.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Features
25 Apr

New governance setting for cache refreshes from Azure Analysis Services

NOW AVAILABLE

The new ClientCacheRefreshPolicy property allows IT or the Analysis Services practitioner to disable automatic cache refreshes.

  • Azure Analysis Services
  • Features
24 Apr

Group claims in Azure AD tokens

IN PREVIEW

User group membership information can be emitted from SAML and OIDC/OAuth tokens issued by Azure AD so organisations so apps that require this information can be managed and secured from the cloud.

  • Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)
  • Security
  • Features
23 Apr

Azure Active Directory activity logs integration with Diagnostics Logs for Azure Monitor and Log Analytics in Azure Monitor

NOW AVAILABLE

Gain insights from Azure AD user activity logs stored in an Azure storage account and streamed to your preferred SIEM or custom environment or integration with Log Analytics in Azure Monitor directly in the Azure portal.

  • Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)
  • Security
  • Features
22 Apr

Azure Batch updates now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Here are the latest new or enhanced capabilities for Azure Batch, available now.

  • Batch
  • Features
19 Apr

Azure reservations: New experience and APIs for purchasing reservations

Azure reservation updates include new purchase experience and APIs.

  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Management
  • Features
19 Apr

Azure API Management update 19th April

Learn about the latest regular update in Azure API Management update.

  • API Management
  • Services
  • Features
19 Apr

Service Fabric Mesh preview - spring update for features in development

IN DEVELOPMENT

Service Fabric Mesh preview is being updated with some new features and improvements based on feedback we have received.

  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Features
17 Apr

Server-level collations in Managed Instance are globally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance now brings even more application compatibility by offering a choice of server-level collation to meet the needs of the existing applications that should be migrated to azure cloud. This eliminates need for changes in the existing applications that are not using SQL Server instances with default server-level collation when they are migrated to Azure cloud

  • Features
17 Apr

Azure Container Registry singularity image files (SIF) support is now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Support for storing singularity image files (SIF) in Azure Container Registry based on the OCI distribution-based container registries specification is now available in preview.

  • Azure Container Registry
  • Features
  • Open Source
17 Apr

Pod security policy for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now available in preview

IN PREVIEW

Pod Security Policy enables customers to control sensitive aspects of a pod specification by defining a set of conditions that a pod must run with in order to be accepted.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Services
  • Features
17 Apr

Azure Logic Apps Tools for Visual Studio 2019

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Logic Apps Tools for Visual Studio 2019 is now available.

  • Logic Apps
  • Visual Studio
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
17 Apr

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Read Replica is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Database for PostgreSQL now supports asynchronous replication of data from one Azure Database for PostgreSQL server to up to five servers in the same region.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Features
17 Apr

Azure Database for MariaDB: New compute options are now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Database for MariaDB now supports even larger workloads and helps you to accommodate future growth.

  • Azure Database for MariaDB
  • Features
16 Apr

Announcing Azure Backup support to move Recovery Services vaults across subscriptions and resource groups

NOW AVAILABLE

Announcing the GA support for move functionality for recovery services vaults where you can migrate a vault between subscriptions and resource groups with a few steps, in minimal downtime and without any data-loss of old backups. You can move RS vault and retain recovery points of protected VMs to restore to any point in time later.

  • Azure Backup
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features

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