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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.
May 2017
Introducing the Azure app (preview)
With the Azure mobile app, you can check status and critical metrics of your Azure resources, get notifications and alerts, and perform simple operations to resolve common issues.
July 2016
New generation of D-Series instances in Brazil South
The new Dv2 instances carry the same CPU, memory, and disk configurations as the current D-Series, but they offer more powerful CPUs and run about 35 percent faster.
May 2016
New generation of D-Series instances for Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Cloud Services in Japan West
The new generation of D-Series instances is available in Japan West. These Dv2 instances offer more powerful CPUs and run about 35 percent faster than the current D-Series.
October 2015
New generation of D-Series instances for VMs and Azure Cloud Services
A new generation of D-Series instances can be used as VMs or Azure Cloud Services. These DV2 instances offer more powerful CPUs and run about 35 percent faster than the current D-Series.
May 2015
Multiple VIPs per cloud service
Now you can assign more than one load-balanced public IP address to a set of virtual machines, enabling high-availability and high-scale scenarios.
January 2015
Public Preview: Azure Active Directory Connect Health
Azure AD Connect Health helps you monitor your on-premises identity infrastructure.
October 2014
General Availability: Microsoft Antimalware for Cloud Services and VMs
Microsoft Antimalware for Cloud Services and Virtual Machines (VMs) is now generally available to help identify and remove viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.
General Availability: Instance-Level Public IPs
With Instance-Level Public IPs, you can enable scenarios such as running FTP servers in Azure and monitoring virtual machines directly using their IPs.
August 2014
Azure SDK 2.4 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 are available for download
Azure development tooling features include support for WebJobs publishing, Dev/Test environments for Mobile Services, Remote debugging for Virtual Machines, Emulator Express, and more.
Azure PowerShell 0.8.6
This Azure PowerShell release includes Compute, SQL Database, and Windows Azure Pack updates.
July 2014
Reverse DNS support for Azure Cloud Services
We’ve added support for reverse DNS for all Azure Cloud Services at no additional cost!
May 2014
Azure PowerShell 0.8.1 and 0.8.2
New support for Managed Cache, Azure Automation, Traffic Manager and the Anti-Malware Cloud Service extension.
General Availability: IP Reservation for VIPs
Reserve public IP addresses and use them as virtual IP (VIP) addresses for your applications.
Microsoft Antimalware and security partnerships with Trend Micro and Symantec
Microsoft Antimalware offers customers the ability to install an antimalware agent for both PaaS roles and virtual machines
Preview: Internal load balancing for virtual machines
Load-balance Azure (VMs) with private IP addresses within a virtual network.
Preview: Azure Files
Mount a shared file system and access it from various virtual machines in an Azure datacenter.
April 2014 Cloud Services Guest OS Release completed
The April 2014 Guest OS release (versions 4.7, 3.14, 2.26, and 1.34), which incorporates all the latest MSRC updates, started release on May 2 and completed today May 6.
April 2014
General Availability: Autoscale
The new GA release of Autoscale includes performance- and schedule-based scaling, and you can customize it to scale based on metrics you define.
Azure Management Library 2.0.0-Preview for .NET and Node.js
This Preview release includes support for Azure Resource Manager.
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