Updates Archives
Monthly updates for October 2018
Power BI Embedded capacity monitoring app
Power BI has released a new capacity monitoring app that helps you make more informed and data-driven decisions when managing your Power BI Embedded capacity.
Azure AD DS now supports Azure managed disks
Azure AD DS managed domains gain greater availability and resilience with support for Azure managed disks.
General availability: HDInsight Hadoop Enterprise Security Package
Easily set up an HDInsight cluster with Enterprise Security Package that's joined to an Azure AD DS managed domain.
Public preview: Azure AD authentication for Azure Files SMB access
Secure your Azure Files SMB shares by using your Azure AD DS managed domain.
Improved synchronization performance from Azure AD to Azure AD DS managed domain
We've improved performance of synchronization from Azure AD to your Azure AD DS managed domain.
Scoped synchronization from Azure AD to your Azure AD DS managed domain
You can now choose which sets of user accounts should be synchronized into an Azure Active Directory Domain Services managed domain.
Fine-grained password policy support in Azure AD DS
Azure Active Directory Domain Services now supports custom fine-grained password lifetime policies.
Azure App Service: Price reductions for App Service on Linux basic and premium tiers
We’ve recently reduced prices for Azure App Service on Linux for the basic and premium tiers.
Azure Cognitive Services available in new regions
New regions are now available for Azure Cognitive Services. The Content Moderator, Computer Vision, Face, Translator Text, and Language Understanding (LUIS) Services are now generally available in US Government regions.
Azure SQL Database dev/test pricing available as part of Azure Enterprise dev/test offer
Now generally available for vCore-based resource types in Azure SQL Database (excluding Managed Instance), dev/test pricing provides a cost-effective way to run your development and testing workloads on Azure SQL Database. With dev/test pricing for Azure SQL Database, you can save up to 55 percent versus list prices.
Public preview: Virtual network integration for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1
Virtual network integration for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 1 to secure your Data Lake Storage accounts is in public preview.
Application Insights is available in Central India and Canada Central
Application Insights is now available in Central India and Canada Central.
Azure Security Center update September 2018
Target availability: Q3 2018
New features are in preview for Azure Security Center.
Limited public preview: Premium blobs in the Azure portal
You can create and manage premium blob storage accounts from the Azure portal. This preview is available in the US East 2, US Central, and US West regions.
Azure IoT Edge 1.0.3 release
The 1.0.3 update of Azure IoT Edge includes only a fix for a security vulnerability in a dependency of the runtime.
Azure API Management update October 11
Learn about the latest regular update to Azure API Management.
Ability to Diagnose and resolve hybrid identity directory errors is now available
Identify and remediate directory errors caused by duplicate user attributes and orphaned objects, which complicate synchronizing your AD and Azure AD hybrid identity environment.
Azure Container Instances now available in Central India and South Central US
Target availability: Q4 2018
Azure Container Instances supports Linux and Windows containers in two new regions: Central India (Pune) and South Central US (Texas).
Azure Security Center update - Ignite 2018
Target availability: Q3 2018
This update contains new features announced as generally available at Ignite 2018.
Integrate Office 365 data at scale into Azure by using Data Factory
Azure Data Factory added a new capability that enables secured, governed, and scalable access of Office 365 data in Azure.
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