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GA: Azure Monitor log search alerts support managed identities
A common challenge for developers is the management of credentials for applications to use when connecting to resources. Managed identities provide an automatically managed identity in Microsoft Entra ID. Applications can use managed identities to obtain Microsoft Entra tokens without having to manage any credentials.
January 2024
Generally available: FHIR service integration with Azure Active Directory B2C
Now you can use the FHIR service in Azure Health Data Services with Azure Active Directory B2C (Azure AD B2C). This capability gives healthcare organizations a secure and convenient way to grant access the FHIR service in Azure Health Data Services without creating or comingling user accounts in their organization’s Microsoft Entra ID tenant.
December 2023
Azure Event Grid releases public preview support for events from services like Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Teams.
Target availability: Q4 2023
Support for Microsoft Graph API events helps you automate actions in response to Microsoft resource changes.
November 2023
General availability: Integration of Azure Monitor Agent support with Connection Monitor
Integration of Azure Monitor Agent support in Connection Monitor for monitoring connectivity across ARC enabled endpoints as sources and destinations
Experiment templates now available in Azure Chaos Studio
Create and customize an experiment from a template. Chaos Studio currently supports AAD Outage and Availability Zone Down scenarios.
October 2023
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.
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.
Generally Available: Multi-user authorisation for Backup vaults
Multi-user authorization provides enhanced protection for your backup data against unauthorized critical operations.
Public Preview: Azure Log Alerts support for Azure Resource Graph (ARG)
We are now introducing support for running queries also on Azure Resource Graph (ARG) tables, and even joining data between Azure Resource Graph (ARG) data sources from your Log Analytics workspace and Application Insights resources in a single query.
September 2023
SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances will be retired by 30 June 2025 – transition to Virtual Machines
Target retirement date: June 30, 2025
SAP HANA Large Instance (HLI) on Gen4/Gen4.5 is being retired - Migrate to SAP certified Azure Virtual Machines before 30 June 2025
Authenticate Azure Monitor logs connector in Logic App with managed identity
When you enable managed identity authentication in Logic App, and grant it permissions in Log Analytics workspace, or Application Insights component, you can query data without needing...
August 2023
Public Preview: Custom NFSv4.1 ID Domain in Azure NetApp Files
Non-LDAP volumes can now be configured to use a custom authentication ID Domain that matches your NFS environment.
Public Preview: Azure Active Directory integration with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Target availability: Q3 2023
Now you can use Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication on Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters.
July 2023
Azure AD is becoming Microsoft Entra ID
Microsoft Entra ID is the new name for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). No action is required from you.
June 2023
General availability: MySQL extension for Azure Data Studio
Connect to, query, and develop for MySQL hosted on-premises or in the cloud with the MySQL extension for Azure Data Studio.
Generally Available: Managed identity authentication in Azure Monitor container insights
Managed Identity is a secure & simplified authentication model where our agent uses the cluster’s managed identity to send data to Azure Monitor.
General availability of Azure Front Door integration with managed identities
Azure Front Door supports using managed identity to access Key Vault without the need to generate, store, and rotate secrets. This is a secure service to service authentication method to enhance security.
Public Preview: Azure AD Support for Azure Files SMB shares REST API
With this announcement, cloud native and modern applications that use REST APIs to access Azure SMB shares can utilize identity-based authentication and authorization to access file shares.
Generally available: Private Link support for Application Gateway
Application Gateway Private Link allows you to connect your workloads over a private connection spanning across VNets and subscriptions
May 2023
Generally available: Azure Files scalability improvement for Azure Virtual Desktop and other workloads that open root directory handles
Target availability: Q2 2023
Azure Files has increased the root directory handle limit per share from 2,000 to 10,000 for standard and premium file shares.
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