Updates Archives
Monthly updates for April 2019
Azure AD entitlement management
Govern employee and partner access requests, approvals, auditing, and reviews for any app integrated with Azure AD.
PowerShell support in Azure Functions
With the preview of PowerShell support in Azure Functions, it is now possible to automate operational tasks and take advantage of the native Azure integration to modernize the delivering and management of services.
Update 19.04 for Azure Sphere public preview now available in Retail feed
The Azure Sphere public preview 19.04 quality release is available today via the Retail feed.
Group claims in Azure AD tokens
User group membership information can be emitted from SAML and OIDC/OAuth tokens issued by Azure AD so organizations so apps that require this information can be managed and secured from the cloud.
Public Preview: Microsoft adds full IPv6 support for Azure VNets
Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6 Connectivity allows you to bring your private IPv6 space into Azure and enables connectivity over IPv6 within your Virtual Networks.
Public Preview: Resource Change History API
With the last 14 days of resource changes, the public preview of the new Change History capability within the Azure Resource Graph API enables you to find when changes were detected on an Azure Resource Manager property and see what properties changed as part of that change event.
Azure Container Registry singularity image files (SIF) support is now in preview
Support for storing singularity image files (SIF) in Azure Container Registry based on the OCI distribution-based container registries specification is now available in preview.
Pod security policy for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now available in preview
Pod Security Policy enables customers to control sensitive aspects of a pod specification by defining a set of conditions that a pod must run with in order to be accepted.
Preview of Azure virtual network service endpoint policies expanded to four new regions
The public preview of Azure virtual network policies for Azure Storage was expanded to four new US regions on March 25.
Update 19.04 for Azure Sphere public preview now available for evaluation
The Azure Sphere public preview 19.04 quality release is available today via the Retail Evaluation feed. The regular Retail OS feed will continue to deliver version 19.03; we plan to upgrade it to 19.04 in two weeks.
Public Preview: Time zone choice for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance now brings even more compatibility by offering a choice of time zone to eliminate need for any changes in the existing applications when migrating to cloud.
AzCopy Preview now supports Amazon Web Services S3 as a data source
Target availability: Q2 2019
AzCopy Preview (v10) now supports Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 as a data source and can copy an entire AWS S3 bucket (or even multiple buckets) to Azure Blob storage.
Azure Policy for AKS is now in private preview
Apply at-scale enforcements and safeguards for AKS clusters in a centralized, consistent manner through Azure Policy.
Azure FXT Edge Filer is in public preview
The Avere FXT Edge Filer solution is currently being previewed. This redesigned hardware takes advantage of Avere Systems’ software technology to accelerate network-attached storage (NAS) environments and expand access to Azure Blob.
Public preview: Windows Server 2019 container support in Azure App Service
Windows Server 2019 Container Support is now available in the public preview of Windows Containers on Azure App Service.
Azure Functions Premium plan
The Premium Plan is a new hosting option for Function Apps which provides pre-warmed workers to run your app with no delay after being idle, VNET connectivity, and more powerful hardware, without compromising on latency or scale
Azure Security Center for IoT in public preview
Azure is now the first major public cloud with end-to-end security for IoT for your devices, hubs and cloud resources. We are adding advanced threat protection for IoT to three key services: Azure Security Center, Azure Sentinel and Azure IoT Hub.
Anomaly Detector is now available
Anomaly Detector, a new service within Azure Cognitive Services, is now available for developers. Easily embed anomaly detection capabilities into your apps to quickly identify problems and help minimize loss and customer impact.
Azure Search—New storage optimized service tiers are now in preview
The new L-series tiers offer significantly more storage at a reduced cost per terabyte compared to the standard tiers. This is ideal for internal applications searching over large file repositories, archival scenarios when you have business data going back many years, or e-discovery applications.
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