Updates Archives
Monthly updates for November 2018
Azure Policy now audits applications installed inside virtual machines
Azure Policy Guest Configuration provides the capability to audit settings inside VMs on Azure. The newest policy offers the ability to check for known applications installed inside VMs on Azure.
Azure API Management update November 8
Learn about the latest regular update to Azure API Management.
General availability: Row-level security (RLS) for Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Row-level security (RLS) for Azure SQL Data Warehouse, a new capability that can help you manage security for sensitive data, is now generally available.
Azure Container Instances now available in Canada Central
Azure Container Instances supports Linux and Windows container groups in Canada Central.
OMS Agent for Linux November release now available
The OMS Linux Agent November 2018 release is now available. This release contains many stability and installation success improvements.
Azure IoT Edge 1.0.4 release
The 1.0.4 update of Azure IoT Edge contains connectivity improvements, puts C# functions in general availability, and allows for longer createOptions fields.
Upcoming Azure Sphere 18.11 release
We plan to publish the 18.11 release of Azure Sphere during the week of November 12. This release includes substantial investments in our security infrastructure, and it incorporates user feedback.
Azure AD group-based licensing management is now available
Scalably assign Microsoft service licenses to groups of users rather than individuals in Azure AD.
Azure Stack security—drift detection
New and updated features are being developed to ensure customers can determine that their Azure Stack system has not been tampered with and can remediate if configuration has drifted.
Azure Government cloud integration for Azure Stack
Azure Stack is now integrated with the Azure Government cloud, enabling connections to Azure Government identity, subscription, registration, billing, backup/DR, and Azure Marketplace.
Enterprise backup for SQL Servers in Azure Virtual Machines
Users can backup their SQL Servers running in Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). This workload backup capability is built as an infrastructure-less, pay-as-you-go service that uses native SQL backup and restore APIs to provide a comprehensive solution to backup SQL servers running in Azure IaaS VMs.
Kubernetes on Azure Stack in preview
We now support Kubernetes cluster deployment on Azure Stack, a certified Kubernetes Cloud Provider. Install Kubernetes using Azure Resource Manager templates generated by ACS-Engine on Azure Stack.
Azure Stack support for Azure Backup
Azure Stack operators can now backup and recover guest OS, data disks, and volumes using Azure Backup.
Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Stack
Azure Stack operators or tenants can now replicate and failover Windows Server and Linux guest OS based application deployed in IaaS VMs on Azure Stack to Azure.
Azure China cloud integration for Azure Stack
Azure Stack is integrated with the Azure China cloud, enabling connections to identity, subscription, registration, billing, backup/DR, and Azure Marketplace.
Azure Stack—FedRAMP High documentation now available
FedRAMP High documentation is now available for Azure Stack customers.
Ability to incrementally add capacity to Azure Stack
Azure Stack operators can now add a node to an existing Azure Stack scale unit within the supported scale unit limits.
Azure Stack Infrastructure—compliance certification guidance
We have created documentation to describe how Azure Stack infrastructure satisfies regulatory technical controls for PCI-DSS and CSA-CCM.
Azure Stack integrated systems support for multiple scale units
For customers who want larger Azure Stack integrated systems, we're working on adding support to have multiple scale units in an Azure Stack integrated system.
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