Azure updates

Delaying Domain Front Block on Azure Front Door and CDN services

Azure Front Door and Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) are postponing the domain fronting blocking enforcement to January 22, 2024, and will add two log fields to help you check if your resources display domain fronting behavior by December 25, 2023.

• Azure Front Door
• Content Delivery Network
• Security
• Features

Changes to My Groups admin controls

Target retirement date: June 30, 2024

New settings will enable admins to restrict end users from viewing and editing security groups in My Groups. The existing settings that allow enabling or disabling of My Groups will be retired in June 2024.

• Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)
• Security
• Retirements

Switch to Azure AD authentication for application insights by 30 September 2025

Target retirement date: September 30, 2025

API keys used to stream live metrics telemetry into application insights will be retired on 30 September 2025.

• Retirements

Hotpatch is now available on preview images of Windows Server VMs on Azure with the Desktop Experience installation mode

Hotpatch is available for preview images of Windows Server Azure Edition VMs running the Desktop Experience installation mode.

• Services
• Management

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 66 - February 2023

This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components. 

• Features

Generally available: AKS support for Ubuntu 22.04

AKS will start using Ubuntu 22 instead of Ubuntu 18 as the Ubuntu version for node pools.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 22.09 expected on September 22

Participate in the 22.09 retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.

• Azure Sphere
• Operating System

General availability: Azure Red Hat OpenShift support for OpenShift 4.9

Benefit from new features and enhancements in OpenShift release 4.9.

• Azure Red Hat OpenShift
• Services

General availability: Increased connection limit for VPN Gateways

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

• VPN Gateway
• Security
• Features

Public preview: AKS support for Kubernetes 1.22

You can now take advantage of the latest features of Kubernetes 1.22 including a new PodSecurity admission feature and more.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 21.09 expected on Sept 22

Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.

• Azure Sphere
• Operating System

The Azure Cloud Shell image has been updated

Azure Cloud Shell has been updated to use a new base image. This will provide updates to some of the most common tools and commands.

• Cloud Shell
• SDK and Tools
• Management

Azure Machine Learning offers added capabilities at lower cost

Azure Machine Learning Enterprise Edition (preview) and Basic Edition are merging on September 22, 2020. This change does not cause any downtime or impact existing deployments.

• Azure Machine Learning
• Services
• Features

Azure SQL Managed Instance management pack is now generally available

Target availability: Q3 2020

System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) management pack for Azure SQL Managed Instance is now generally available.

• Azure SQL Managed Instance
• Services
• Management
• Features

Azure API Management update—January 2020

A regular Azure API Management service update was started on 22nd January 2019 and included the following new features, bug fixes and changes, along with other improvements. It may take over a week for your API Management service to receive the update.

• API Management
• Features

SR-IOV availability schedule on NCv3 Virtual Machines SKU

As part of Azure’s ongoing commitment to providing industry-leading performance, we are enabling support for all MPI types and versions, and RDMA verbs for InfiniBand-equipped virtual machines, beginning with NCv3 coming in early November 2019.

• Virtual Machines
• Features