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General availability: Azure Bastion native client support
Azure Bastion native client support brings you the ability to connect to target VMs from the command line and log in using your Azure Active Directory credentials.
Operator Assistance in Azure MFA will be retired on 30 September 2023
Target retirement date: September 30, 2023
Turn off Operator Assistance and enable automated attendant features for phone system.
General availability: Enablement of combined security information registration for Azure Active Directory
Target availability: Q3 2022
Beginning 1 October 2022, combined registration for multifactor authentication and self-service password reset is rolling out to you.
January 2022
Public preview: Support for managed identity in Azure Cache for Redis
Connect Azure Cache for Redis to storage accounts via managed identity.
December 2021
Soft delete for blobs capability for Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available
If you have processes or tools to detect accidental deletion of files and directories for your Azure Data Lake Storage accounts, you can now also restore the deleted objects using soft delete for blobs capability. During the retention period that you specify, you can now restore a soft-deleted object to its state at the time it was deleted.
Azure Storage: Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) conditions with principal attributes now in public preview
Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) is an authorisation mechanism that defines access levels based on attributes associated with security principals, resources, requests or the environment. You can now use Azure AD custom security attributes for principals in role assignment conditions for Azure Storage, along with resource and request attributes.
Public preview: FSLogix profiles support for Azure AD-joined VMs for Azure Virtual Desktop
Create an Azure Files share to store FSLogix profiles and configure it to support Azure AD authentication.
General availability: Create AKS clusters without local user accounts
Disable local accounts for AKS cluster and use AAD only for more secure cluster access.
November 2021
General availability: Secure Data Egress via Managed Identity in Azure IoT Central
Azure IoT Central now supports System Assigned Managed Identity allowing you to configure secure data exports.
Azure Web PubSub service now generally available
WebSockets support enables loosely coupled, scalable, real-time messaging applications.
Public preview: Azure Bastion native client support
Azure Bastion native client support brings you the ability to connect to target VMs from the command line and log in using their Azure Active Directory credentials.
Azure Automation support for Managed Identities is now generally available
Use Managed Identities to authenticate runbooks to any Azure service that supports Azure AD authentication.
Public preview: gMSAv2 security policy support for Kubernetes workloads on Windows
AKS will now take care of GMSA configuration, as well as maintaining trust during scale operations in the Windows nodepool.
Public preview updates to Azure SQL Managed Instance boosts performance, scale, and flexibility
New investments in Azure SQL Managed Instance bring more performance, scale, and flexibility to your SQL workloads in this latest significant update to the service.
October 2021
Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud RBAC config server and registry access and Nginx logs and metrics
Spring Cloud Config Server and Service Registry access using Azure Active Directory and Nginx ingress logs and metrics are now available in preview in Azure Spring Cloud.
Public preview: Customize Azure Static Web Apps authentication with a serverless function
Azure Static Web Apps adds support for programmatically assigning custom user roles using Azure Functions.
September 2021
Azure Automation Hybrid Worker Extension for Azure and Arc-enabled servers now in public preview
Onboard Azure Automation User Hybrid Runbook Worker based on VM extension platform for Azure Virtual machines and Arc-enabled servers. The extension-based platform leverages Azure Active Directory authentication.
Announcing general availability of Azure AD-joined VMs support
You can now deploy Azure AD-joined VMs in your host pools for Azure Virtual Desktop.
Azure Cosmos DB: Azure Functions extension version 4.0 in public preview
Use the latest Azure Cosmos DB Azure Functions extension version 4.0 based on the .NET SDK version 3.x, enabling authentication with AAD, built-in change feed processor support and performance enhancements.
Screen Capture Protection for Azure Virtual Desktop is now generally available
This new Azure Virtual Desktop feature prevents sensitive information from being captured in screen captures and screen shares.
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