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February 2019

5 Feb

Azure Portal February 2019 update

Learn about updates made to the Azure portal for February 2019.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Virtual Machines
  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features

January 2019

28 Jan

General availability: Standard Load Balancer and Standard Public IP in Azure Government

Azure Standard Load Balancer and Standard Public IP are now generally available in Azure Government cloud regions.

  • Load Balancing
  • Virtual Network
  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features

December 2018

6 Dec

Azure portal December 2018 update

NOW AVAILABLE

Learn about updates made available to the Azure portal for December 2018.

  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Virtual Machines
  • Security Center
  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
  • Security

November 2018

7 Nov

Azure portal November 2018 update

NOW AVAILABLE

See updates to the Azure portal in November 2018.

  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Marketplace
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Services
  • Management

October 2018

22 Oct

Azure portal October update

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure portal received updates in October 2018.

  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Azure mobile app
  • Storage Accounts
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Azure Advisor
  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Virtual WAN
  • Activity Log
  • Azure Managed Applications
  • Automation
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Management
20 Oct

General availability: Standard Load Balancer in Azure China cloud

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Standard Load Balancer is now generally available in Azure China cloud regions.

  • Load Balancing
  • Virtual Network
  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
15 Oct

Limited public preview: Premium blobs in the Azure portal

IN PREVIEW

You can create and manage premium blob storage accounts from the Azure portal. This preview is available in the US East 2, US Central and US West regions.

  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Management
  • Features

September 2018

24 Sep

Azure Cost Management in the Azure Portal preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Cost Management is in the Azure portal and currently in preview. It is now enabled by default, with improved performance and fuly integrated into the Azure platform.

  • Azure Cost Management and Billing
  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Services

August 2018

30 Aug

Troubleshoot connectivity issues in a virtual network

NOW AVAILABLE

The Virtual Network portal blade has been enhanced to troubleshoot connectivity and performance issues or continually monitor your network endpoints from virtual machines (VMs) in a virtual network.

  • Network Watcher
  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Virtual Network
  • Features
13 Aug

Add HTTPS probes to standard load balancers from the Azure portal

The Azure portal has built-in support to add HTTPS probes to standard load balancers.

  • Load Balancing
  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Management
  • Features

June 2018

5 Jun

General availability: Azure mobile app for Android and iOS

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure mobile app is generally available, so you can stay connected to your Azure resources—anytime, anywhere.

  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Management

September 2017

26 Sep

Public preview: PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell

IN PREVIEW

PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell is available in public preview. It provides an alternative to the existing Bash experience (also in public preview) while retaining the benefits of Cloud Shell.

  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Management
21 Sep

Support for blob storage lease management from the Azure portal

You can conveniently manage leases on containers and blobs of storage accounts right from the Azure portal.

  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Storage Accounts
  • Management
  • Features
21 Sep

Azure Cloud Shell: New CLI tools added and font-size selection

IN PREVIEW

Microsoft routinely maintains and updates Azure Cloud Shell, including the addition of new CLI tools to improve your productivity. Learn about the CLI tools we recently added.

  • Batch
  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Management
5 Sep

Manage stored access policies for storage accounts from within the Azure portal

You can now manage the stored access policies for your storage accounts from within the Azure portal.

  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Storage Accounts
  • Management
  • Features

August 2017

23 Aug

Azure Cloud Shell: Generate scripts by using mssql-scripter

Use mssql-scripter, an open-source command-line interface, to generate database scripts in Azure Cloud Shell.

  • Cloud Shell
  • Cloud Services
  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Services
  • SDK and Tools
  • Management

July 2017

26 Jul

New look for Azure Storage overview blade in the portal

In the Azure portal, the overview blade for storage accounts now loads faster, allows quickly accessible links to storage services, and includes upgraded metrics charts.

  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Storage Accounts
  • Management
  • Features
18 Jul

Improvements to blob upload blade in Azure portal

There are multiple enhancements and fixes to the blob upload experience for storage accounts in the Azure portal.

  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Storage Accounts
  • Features

January 2017

26 Jan

Get early access to the newest Azure portal features

IN PREVIEW

You can get early access to preview features in the Azure portal before they're broadly available.

  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Management

April 2016

12 Apr

Global search in the Azure portal

IN PREVIEW

In the Azure portal, you can jump to your resources, resource groups, and subscriptions no matter what you have open by using the global search box.

  • Microsoft Azure portal

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