Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2019
Unified application registration experience
Register, configure and manage all your apps in the new application registration blade in the Azure portal.
Azure AD support in GitHub Enterprise
GitHub Enterprise customers can synchronize groups of users with Azure AD to leverage existing infrastructure.
Azure Cosmos DB notebook experience
Azure Cosmos DB now provides a notebook experience for all APIs. The feature allows Python developers to enjoy a supported notebook experience for native APIs in Azure Cosmos DB. Notebooks are popular because they offer developers an easy way to share code and collaborate. <br> <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/planet-scale-operational-analytics-and-ai-with-azure-cosmos-db/" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Read blog |</a><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db/" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement"> Learn more</a>
Inline Code for Azure Logic Apps is in preview
Committed to meet customers where they are, the new Inline code feature enables developers to write and execute simple ECMAScript (also known as JavaScript) right from within Logic Apps.
RosettaNet connector and standard support is now in preview
Logic Apps provides the ability to send and receive RosettaNet based messages through RosettaNet connector, which supports the operations to decode or receive and encode or send messages.
Adaptive network hardening - now in public preview
Adaptive network hardening is now in public preview
Adaptive application controls - changing a VM group membership
Adaptive application controls - changing a VM group membership
Azure Container Instances Windows Server 2019 container support is now in preview
Azure Container Instances (ACI) now supports Windows Server 2019 based containers in public preview
New features for Azure Machine Learning are now available
Features include: Model Interpretability - Machine learning interpretability allows data scientists to explain machine learning models globally on all data, or locally on a specific data point using the state-of-art technologies in an easy-to-use and scalable fashion. Machine Learning interpretability incorporates technologies developed by Microsoft and proven third-party libraries (for example, SHAP and LIME).
Visual Studio Subscription with GitHub Enterprise offering
The native integrations of GitHub Enterprise with Visual Studio and Azure DevOps make it easier and faster for your development teams to adopt Git.
Public Preview of Azure Data Explorer capabilities to integrate deeper with ADLS Gen 2
At Build, Azure Data Explorer will preview the capability for enterprises to query data from ADLS Gen 2 without ingesting data
Public Preview of tighter integration of Azure Data Explorer with Python and Spark
Spark connector for Azure Data Explorer and ability to run inline Python and R as part of the query.
New features for Azure Machine Learning are now in preview
Features include: Open Datasets - Open Datasets are a collection of datasets from the public domain to accelerate the development of machine learning models built in Azure. Open Datasets integrates with Machine Leaning Studio or can be accessed from python notebooks in Azure Machine Learning Service.
Azure now supports GitHub identity single sign-on
GitHub identities are now supported as sign in option to log in to Azure. An existing Microsoft account is no longer needed to sign in to Azure.
Azure Policy for AKS is now in public preview
Azure Policy now has the capability of adding policy controls inside your AKS clusters including pods, namespaces and ingress
Built-in support for Apache Spark in Azure Cosmos DB now in preview
By using built-in support for Apache Spark and Jupyter notebooks, Azure Cosmos DB helps reduce time to insights by ingesting and serving data and running analytics against the local database replica in an Azure region.
Azure now supports GitHub identity single sign-on
GitHub identities are now supported as sign in option to log in to Azure. An existing Microsoft account is no longer needed to sign in to Azure.
Hyperscale (Citus) is now in preview on Azure Database for PostgreSQL
We’re excited to announce preview of Hyperscale (Citus), a new deployment option for Azure Database for PostgreSQL that scales out Postgres horizontally.
Azure Search now supports complex search types
Azure Search now supports complex searches for raw datasets that don’t break down neatly.
HBase accelerated writes in Azure HDInsight is now in preview
HBase accelerated writes significantly improves the value proposition for low-latency, high- throughput NoSQL workloads.
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