Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2019
General Availability: Time zone choice for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
Time zone choice for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance eliminating need for any changes in the existing applications when migrating to cloud is now generally available.
Mapping Data Flows feature is now available in Azure Data Factory
The new Mapping Data Flows feature in Azure Data Factory allows Data Engineers to visually design, debug, manage, and operationalize data transformations at scale in the cloud.
Identity Secure Score in the Azure AD Portal
Gain visibility and control over your security posture by discovering opportunities that will help to improve security across your organization
Azure Monitor classic alerts retirement date extended to August 31st, 2019
Target retirement date: August 31, 2019
Azure Monitor classic alerts retirement date which was originally scheduled for June 30th, 2019 is being extended to August 31st, 2019 to provide customers more time to voluntarily migrate their classic alerts. You can migrate your classic alerts today using the migration tool. After August 31st, 2019 we will perform an automatic migration on your behalf.
Generation 2 virtual machines in Azure – Public Preview
Generation 2 (UEFI Boot) Virtual Machines available in Azure for public preview
Azure Security Center new analytics agent for Linux
Azure Security Center is beginning roll out of a new Azure Linux analytics agent to improve the onboarding of Linux VMs and servers to Security Center
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports Windows Server containers
Use managed Kubernetes for all of your workloads whether they’re in Windows, Linux or both.
Kubernetes integration with Azure Pipelines is now available
You can now use GitHub identity to login into the Azure DevOps portal. In addition, you can take your GitHub repo all the way to Kubernetes using a YAML based multistage pipeline.
Azure AD Conditional Access policy for the combined MFA and password reset security info registration experience
Control the conditions in which sentive security information for multi-factor authentication and self-service password reset can be registered.
Network Security Group service tag for Azure Backup is now available
NSG service tag for Azure Backup aims to ease the process of running backups in an environment locked down using NSGs. With this, you now have the option to simply use the ‘AzureBackup’ tag to allow outbound access to Azure Backup for your workload (SQL server) agent running inside the VM, instead of managing whitelisting of required IPs.
Upgraded Gremlin API functionality for Azure Cosmos DB is now available
Enhanced Gremlin functionality in Cosmos DB Gremlin API is now available.
Enhanced SQL API query functionality in Azure Cosmos DB is now available
Azure Cosmos DB SQL API provides support for Distinct, Skip & Take, Correlated Subquery, and Composite indexes.
Slow query log integration with Azure Monitor for Azure Database for MariaDB is now supported
Azure Database for MariaDB users can now take advantage of generally available support for slow query log integration with Azure Monitor, which allows you to export your logs to Azure Monitor logs (previously named Log Analytics), Event Hubs, and Azure Storage.
The Orafce extension on Azure Database for PostgreSQL is now available
Now generally available, the orafce extension is supported on Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
Read replica across regions for Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL
Cross-region asynchronous replication is now in preview for Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
Azure Cosmos DB Operator role for role-based access control (RBAC) is now available
Azure Cosmos DB now provides a new RBAC role: Cosmos DB Operator. This new role lets you provision Azure Cosmos accounts, databases, and containers, but can’t access the keys that are required to access the data.
Enhanced Azure Resource Manager support for Azure Cosmos DB is now available
Azure Cosmos DB now provides support for databases, containers, and offers in Azure Resource Manager.
High-Performance Computing Virtual Machines are now available in South Central US, Western Europe
HB-Series VMs are now available in South Central US, Western Europe
Expansion of the password character limit in Azure AD
Passwords for accounts created in Azure AD can now be up to 256 characters including spaces.
General Availability: Azure Dev Spaces
Azure Dev Spaces is now available in the East US, East US 2, Central US, West US 2, North Europe, West Europe, UK South, Southeast Asia, Australia East, Canada Central, and Canada East regions.
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