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December 2023

1 Dec

Standard and High-Performance VPN Gateway SKUs will be retired on 30 September 2025

Target retirement date: September 30, 2025

Standard and High-Performance VPN Gateway SKUs are retiring on September 30th, 2025

  • IP Addresses
  • VPN Gateway
  • Security
  • Retirements

November 2023

15 Nov

Public preview: Customer-controlled maintenance

IN PREVIEW

Customers can now use configurable maintenance windows to schedule gateway maintenance at a time that is most convenient for their business.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Virtual WAN
  • Security
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

January 2022

11 Jan

General availability: Multiple custom BGP APIPA addresses for active VPN gateways

NOW AVAILABLE

Get more flexibility for your on-premises BGP connections to Azure and create BGP-enabled VPN connections between Azure and other cloud providers.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Security
  • Features

November 2021

29 Nov

General availability: VPN Gateway NAT

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure VPN Gateway NAT (Network Address Translation) can be used to connect on-premises networks or branch offices to an Azure virtual network with overlapping IP addresses.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Security
  • Features
19 Nov

General availability: Increased connection limit for VPN Gateways

NOW AVAILABLE

VPN Gateways can now support up to 100 Site-to-Site/VNet-to-VNet connections for some VPN Gateway SKUs.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Security
  • Features
2 Nov

General availability: New troubleshooting experiences in Network Insights for VPN Gateway & Azure Firewall

NOW AVAILABLE

Rich insights for additional networking resources in Azure Monitor.

  • Azure Monitor
  • VPN Gateway
  • Azure Firewall
  • Security
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

August 2021

9 Aug

General availability: Azure VPN Client for macOS

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure VPN Client for macOS enables you to utilize features of Azure AD natively, such as multi-factor authentication, conditional access, and user-based policies for you Mac clients.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Security
  • Features

June 2021

30 Jun

VPN NAT now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure VPN Gateway NAT (Network Address Translation) can be used to connect on-premises networks or branch offices to an Azure virtual network with overlapping IP addresses.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Security
  • Features

May 2021

14 May

Public preview of Azure VPN Client for macOS

IN PREVIEW

Azure VPN Client for macOS enables customers to utilise features of Azure AD natively, such as multi-factor authentication, Conditional Access and user-based policies for their Mac clients.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Security
  • Features
5 May

General availability: Multiple features for Azure VPN Gateway

NOW AVAILABLE

Take advantage of multiple new enhancements and features that are now generally available in Azure VPN Gateway.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Security
  • Features

March 2021

2 Mar

Multiple new features for Azure VPN Gateway in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Take advantage of multiple new enhancements and features that are now available in Azure VPN Gateway.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Security
  • Features

November 2020

20 Nov

Multiple new features for Azure VPN Gateway are now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Take advantage of multiple new enhancements and features that are now generally available in Azure VPN Gateway.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Security
  • Features
16 Nov

General availability: VPN over ExpressRoute private peering

NOW AVAILABLE

VPN over ExpressRoute allows customers to encrypt all traffic going over their ExpressRoute circuit. VPN over ExpressRoute, combined with site-to-site and point-to-site VPN provides end-to-end encryption between data centres, branch offices and remote users.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Security
  • Features

October 2020

21 Oct

Multiple new features for Azure VPN Gateway in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Take advantage of multiple new enhancements and features that are now available in Azure VPN Gateway.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Security
  • Features

February 2020

10 Feb

Native Azure Active Directory authentication support and Azure VPN Client now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Native Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication support for OpenVPN protocol and Azure VPN Client for Windows are now generally available for Azure point-to-site (P2S) VPN.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Security
  • Features

November 2019

5 Nov

Native Azure Active Directory authentication support in point-to-site VPN

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2019

Native Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication support for OpenVPN protocol and Azure VPN Client for Windows are now available.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Security
  • Features

October 2019

21 Oct

VNet Gateway meter name changes

NOW AVAILABLE

Effective 1st December 2019, the meter names of VNet Gateway standard, high performance and ultra high performance will change. There will not be a pricing impact from this change, but you will need to modify billing routines that rely on names.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Security

April 2019

12 Apr

General availability: Gateway Transit support for Global VNet Peering

NOW AVAILABLE

Global VNet Peering now supports Gateway Transit to simplify customer network's by allowing the use of a remote gateway in another region.

  • Virtual Network
  • VPN Gateway
  • ExpressRoute Gateways
  • Security
  • Features

September 2018

24 Sep

OpenVPN support for Azure VPN Gateways

IN PREVIEW

Azure Virtual Network Gateways now support OpenVPN as a protocol for point-to-site clients to connect.

  • Virtual Network
  • VPN Gateway
  • Services
  • Security
24 Sep

Zone-redundant VPN and ExpressRoute virtual network gateways generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Zone-redundant VPN and ExpressRoute virtual network gateways are now generally available. This physically and logically separates them across different availability zones, protecting your on-premises network connectivity to Azure from zone-level failures. Additionally, we have made fundamental performance improvements including reducing the deployment time to create a virtual network gateway.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Services
  • Security

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