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Web apps migration experience now available in Azure Migrate
Azure Migrate now provides a dedicated experience for migrating .NET web applications to Azure App Service
October 2019
The unique identifier for your Azure billing account has changed
Your billing account’s unique identifier, which is used to identify your billing relationship with Microsoft, has changed. This change only affects accounts under the Microsoft Customer Agreement with Microsoft—it does not impact other agreements like Enterprise Agreement.
Azure Service Fabric 6.5 fifth refresh release
The Azure Service Fabric 6.5 fifth refresh release includes bug fixes and performance enhancements.
Changes are coming to the Azure Sphere SDK in the next release
The next release of the Azure Sphere SDK will bring significant enhancements in response to great feedback from the community.
Batch API for Blob Storage
Batch API for Azure Blob Storage preview simplifies development of your applications that make several concurrent API requests to Blob storage. Batch API reduces the number of connections a client has to open, manage and distribute the requests to by allowing multiple API calls to be embedded into a single HTTP request. Currently the API supports two types of sub-requests: SetBlobTier for Block Blobs and DeleteBlob, with more requests to follow. This API is available starting version 2018-11-09.
Azure Sphere 19.09 release adds new use cases for enterprise customers
Update 19.09 for Azure Sphere public preview now available in Retail feed
August 2019
Azure Service Fabric 6.5 third refresh release is now available
The Azure Service Fabric 6.5 third refresh release, which includes bug fixes and performance enhancements, has started rolling out to various Azure regions. The updates for .NET SDK, Java SDK and Service Fabric Runtime will soon be available for all regions through Web Platform Installer, NuGet packages and Maven repositories.
Azure Service Fabric 6.5 Second Refresh Release is Now Available
Azure Service Fabric 6.5 Second Refresh Release rolled out last month with key announcements, along with bug fixes and performance enhancements.
Service Fabric Azure Resource Manager (ARM) application and service deployment is now generally available
The deployment of Service Fabric applications as resources via Azure Resource Manager is now generally available.
New tool for automating load testing of Power BI Embedded capacities now available
A tool for automating load testing of Power BI Embedded capacities helps you understand how much user load your capacity can handle when used. It uses PowerShell to create automated load tests against your capacities and lets you choose which reports to test and how many concurrent users to simulate.
Public Preview of Managed Identity for Azure Service Fabric applications
Azure Service Fabric applications now support user-assigned and system-assigned managed identities.
New Tools are now available in Azure Cloud Shell
Azure Cloud Shell has added a number of new tools and capabilities.
July 2019
A new set of Azure SDKs is now available in preview
A new set of libraries for working with Azure Storage, Cosmos DB, Key Vault and Event Hubs in Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript and C# is now available in preview.
Azure Service Fabric 6.5 Refresh Release is now available
The bugs identified in 6.5 Release of the Service Fabric runtime has been fixed in this refresh release and started rolling out to the various Azure regions along with tooling and SDK updates. For more details, please read the release notes.
June 2019
HDInsight Tools for VSCode: Enhanced PySpark Interactive Query
We are pleased to announce the integration of VSCode Python extension to handle PySpark interactive for HDInsight in VSCode. The Azure HDInsight Tools for VSCode leverages the Python extension to…
HDInsight Tools for VSCode: Hive Table Preview
HDInsight for VSCode continues to boost the experience of Hive users with self-service exploratory capabilities. The HDInsight explorer in VSCode not only empowers you to browse Hive databases across…
Azure DevTest Labs: PowerShell module to simplify management of labs
PowerShell module now available to simplify management of labs
Azure Service Fabric 6.5 Release is now available
Service Fabric 6.5 release version has been rolled out to the various Azure regions along with tooling and SDK updates. The release contains many new features, bug fixes, supportability, reliability and performance improvements. For the full list of all the changes, refer to the release notes.
Power BI REST API with ‘Try-it’ tool allows you to try APIs without any code
Anyone with a Power BI licence can now log into the account to see how the Power BI REST API works, get information or perform operation on Power BI artifacts you have access to - without writing any code using the Power BI REST API Try-it Tool. With five simple steps, users are able to try capabilities of the Power BI REST API without writing code.
May 2019
Azure Sphere 19.05 Release Unlocks new features in the MT3620
Update 19.05 for Azure Sphere public preview now available in Retail feed
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