Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2019
Azure Sphere 19.05 Release Unlocks new features in the MT3620
Update 19.05 for Azure Sphere public preview now available in Retail feed
IoT Hub device telemetry events in Event Grid - public preview
IoT Hub expands its capabilities as an event source in Event Grid by enabling subscribing to device telemetry events.
Events up to 1MB in Event Grid - public preview
Public preview of support for larger events, now up to 1MB.
Event Grid can now publish events to Service Bus
Service Bus is now available as an event handler in Event Grid.
Azure Container Registry—Helm 3 support is now in preview
Helm 3 support is now in preview. This update brings support for storing Helm 3 charts, the next version of Helm, which brings an improved security model and a new Lua based scripting engine.
Azure Container Registry—Open Container Initiative (OCI) new artifact registry types supported (in preview)
Azure Container Registry –OCI new artifact registry types support is now in preview.
Azure App Configuration is now available in preview
Azure App Configuration provides a service to centrally manage application settings and helps secure their accesses. In addition, it helps developers to ship code faster by being able to easily “flight” their features in production using feature flags.
Application Change Analysis for Azure Monitor is now in public preview
Change Analysis public preview with integration into App Services Diagnose and solve problems tool.
Generation 2 virtual machines in Azure – Public Preview
Generation 2 (UEFI Boot) Virtual Machines available in Azure for public preview
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports Windows Server containers
Use managed Kubernetes for all of your workloads whether they are in Windows, Linux or both.
Update 19.05 for Azure Sphere public preview now available for evaluation
The Azure Sphere public preview 19.05 feature release is available today via the Retail Evaluation feed. The regular Retail OS feed will continue to deliver version 19.04; we plan to upgrade it to 19.05 in two weeks.
Azure AD Conditional Access policy for the combined MFA and password reset security info registration experience
Control the conditions in which sensitive security information for multi-factor authentication and self-service password reset can be registered.
Read replica across regions for Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL
Cross-region asynchronous replication is now in preview for Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
Background on Azure Sphere tenant concept
An Azure Sphere tenant provides a secure way for your organization to remotely manage its Azure Sphere devices in isolation from other customers’ devices.
Result-set Caching for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now in preview
Result-set caching enables instant query response times while reducing time-to-insight for business analysts and reporting users
Azure Monitor BUILD 2019 updates
Azure Monitor is launching a number of exciting features including end to end AKS monitoring, granular RBAC for logs, intelligent and scalable alerts, a new application change analysis capability and more.
Ordered Clustered Columnstore Indexes for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now in preview
Columnstore is a key enabler for storing and efficiently querying large amounts of data.
JSON data support for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now in preview
Business analysts can now use familiar T-SQL language to query and manipulate documents that are formatted as JSON data
Dynamic Data Masking for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now in preview
Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) prevents unauthorised access to your sensitive data in your data warehouse by obfuscating it on-the-fly in the query results, based on the masking rules you define.
New networking features for App Service Linux are now in preview
New networking capabilities to enable Linux apps to access resources securely are now available in preview.
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