Updates Archives
Monthly updates for August 2019
Azure Site Recovery update rollup 39—August 2019
This update provides information on recent fixes as well as download links to the latest versions of Site Recovery components.
Storage Ultra Disks meter name change
Effective October 1, 2019 the meter (also known as resource GUID) names for Ultra Disks in US East 2 regions will change.
Help protect large data disks Azure Site Recovery
You can now protect large data disks of up to 8 TB in size with Azure Site Recovery.
Microsoft Azure Ultra Disks now generally available
Microsoft Azure Ultra Disks is the new managed disks offering which is now generally available for running data intensive business critical workloads on cloud requiring high IO performance and low latency
New enhancements to Azure Boards are now available
Azure Boards has new items that can help enhance your experience. For example, you can now customize system picklist values such as severity, activity, and priority. In addition, rule support is now available for setting fields to read-only or required based on group membership. Finally, there is a new extension that will allow you to create cascading picklists on your work item form.
New filters experience is available in Power BI Embedded
The new Power BI filters experience is available in Power BI Embedded and in embedded reports as well. The new experience has an updated design and useful features, such as hide, lock and rename filters.
Announcing Azure Backup limited public preview support for large disks up to 30TB size
Today, we are announcing the limited public preview of larger and more powerful Azure Managed Disks of up to 30 TiB size. This preview provides production level support for managed virtual machines.
Disaster recovery of Azure Disk Encryption-enabled virtual machines
Azure Site Recovery now supports disaster recovery for Azure Disk Encryption-enabled virtual machines without Azure Active Directory app.
Azure Blob Storage on IoT Edge is now generally available
Azure Blob Storage on IoT Edge is a lightweight, Azure-consistent IoT module that provides local block blob storage and enables you to automatically upload data to Azure from your local block blob storage using deviceToCloudUpload properties.
New AMD-based Azure VMs for general purpose and memory intensive workloads in preview
New AMD-based Azure Dav3 and Eav3-series virtual machines – ideal for general purpose and memory intensive workloads – are now in Preview.
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