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Generally available: AMD confidential VM option for Azure Databricks
Users can now select AMD-based confidential VMs for their Azure Databricks cluster driver node and cluster worker nodes.
Azure Virtual Network Manager Security Admin Rule generally available in select regions
Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in select regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.
Public preview: ExpressRoute Scalable Gateway
The ExpressRoute virtual network gateway facilitates both management and control plane connectivity to Virtual Machines and Private Endpoints over ExpressRoute.
General Availability: Ubuntu Server to Ubuntu Pro in-place upgrade now available
Upgrade from Ubuntu Server (16.04 or higher) to Ubuntu Pro on your existing Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) without redeployment or downtime.
Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent JSON log collection
Target availability: Q4 2023
Azure Monitoring Agent team has released for public preview JSON log collection. New collection types enable customers to migrate from other competing data collection services to Azure Monitor.
Latency metrics for disks and performance metrics for temporary disks on Azure Virtual Machines
New latency metrics on OS, data and temporary disks are now available in preview, allowing you to see how long it takes to complete input/output (IO) requests to Azure Disks . In addition, new performance metrics for temporary disks are generally available now and allow users to see the IOPS, throughput and queue depth for virtual machines with temporary disks.
Ability to add dynamic values in Alert’s custom fields
Alerts help you detect and address issues before users notice them by proactively notifying you when Azure Monitor data indicates there might be a problem with your infrastructure or application. We added to the Custom properties section in the alert payload ability to add dynamic value extracted from the alert payload, or a combination of both can be added to the alert notification payload.
October 2023
New E-mail templates for Log search alerts - API version 2021-08-01 and up
During November, we will replace log search alerts (API version 2021-08-01 and up) that uses non-common schema template with an upgraded and more informative email template.
The availability of Azure compute reservations exchanges extended until at least July 1st, 2024
The availability of Azure compute reservations exchanges extended until at least July 1st, 2024
Microsoft Security email update and Resources for Azure AD rename to Microsoft Entra ID
Microsoft Entra ID is the new name for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). The rename and new product icon are being rolled out across experiences from Microsoft. Most updates will be complete by mid-November of this year. Resources are also now available to support the renaming of your product experiences. Additionally, Identity emails will now be sent from Microsoft Security (MSSecurity-noreply@microsoft.com). The emails are currently coming from Microsoft Azure (azure-noreply@microsoft.com). You may need to update Outlook rules as a result.
Default outbound access for VMs in Azure will be retired— updates and more information
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
Default outbound access connectivity for virtual machines will be retired in September 2025 -- updates and more information
General Availability: Azure AI Content Safety
Target availability: Q4 2023
Azure AI Content Safety, now generally available, is a service that enables developers to build safer online environments by detecting and assigning severity scores to unsafe images and text across content categories and languages. These capabilities empower businesses to effectively prioritize and streamline the review of both human and AI-generated content, enabling the responsible development of next-generation AI applications. Learn more: https://aka.ms/contentsafety Get started in Azure AI Content Safety Studio: https://aka.ms/contentsafetystudio
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for October
Four features now available in Public Preview enable you to customize your compute instance experience by using curated or custom environments, collect all model dependencies in a single operation to generate a package than can be move and deployed across environments, label your images at each pixel level with high quality, and conenct and fine-tune Azure OpenAI models with Azure Machine Learning.
Windows Server 2012/R2 reaches end of support
Windows Server 2012/R2 reaches end of support today on October 10, 2023. Microsoft has several options for organizations to remain protected.
Breaking Change Notice: Virtual Machine Scale Set Default Orchestration Mode changing from Uniform to Flexible on PowerShell, Azure CLI
Starting November 2023, Virtual Machine Scale Sets created on PowerShell and Azure CLI will automatically default to Flexible orchestration mode.
Azure Files has been improved to support all valid Unicode characters
Azure Files now supports an expanded character set enabling file and directory names with all valid Unicode characters.
LSA payload update for fixes on 15-Jan
On the 15-Jan we are going to fix those 2 values in LSA payload to contain the correct values according to our other alerts services.
Retirement notice: Bing Speech will be retired on 3 November 2023
Target retirement date: November 03, 2023
Migrate from Bing Speech to Speech Services and the Speech SDK by 3 November 2023
App Service: Backup and Restore over Azure Virtual Network
Customers can now use custom backups, to back up their web app's files and configuration data to a firewall-protected storage account.
Public Preview: Customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption is now available in US Gov regions (Preview)
Customer keys are protected from attacks for maximum security of their Azure NetApp File volumes; the feature is now available in US Gov regions (Preview)
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