Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2019
Significant new updates to Azure Cognitive Services
We are introducing a new category in Cognitive Services called Decision that reflects the evolution of the product portfolio. We are also introducing new services and capabilities under the Vision, Speech and Language categories. And, we are continuing to make more Cognitive Services available on the edge and on-premises with containers. <br> <a href="https://aka.ms/Build2019_AI-ML" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Read blog</a>
IoT Central introduces capabilities for rules and alerts, visualization, personalization & more
IoT Central is introducing new capabilities that are designed to simplify IoT Central for developers and enable integration to a customer’s existing enterprise and line of business solutions by enabling more seamless integration to a customer’s existing enterprise and line of business solutions.
Microsoft Authentication Library for .NET
.NET developers can use MSAL.NET to securely sign-in and authenticate any Microsoft identity (Azure AD and Microsoft Accounts) and call Microsoft Graph or other APIs.
Hyperscale service tier for select Azure database engines
A new Hyperscale service tier in Azure Database for PostgreSQL joins Azure SQL Database Hyperscale to enable developers to build highly scalable, low latency applications using their existing skills. Azure Databases with Hyperscale significantly scales out compute, storage and memory resources as needed, allowing developers to focus on building app experiences without worrying about performance and scale limitations. <br> <a href="https://aka.ms/Build2019_Hyperscale" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Read blog</a>
Azure Cosmos DB API for etcd in preview
With a wire-protocol compatible API for etcd on top of Azure Cosmos DB, developers will automatically get highly reliable, globally distributed and highly available Kubernetes and K8 tools with no code changes or management required.
Azure IoT Edge 1.0.7 release is now available
The 1.0.7 update of Azure IoT Edge fixes connectivity issues, introduces a troubleshooting tool, and is the first version which is generally available on Windows.
IoT Plug and Play announcement at Build
Today we’re announcing IoT Plug and Play, which is based on an open modeling language that allows developers to connect IoT devices to the cloud without having to write any code.
Azure Shared Image Gallery is now generally available
Azure Shared Image Gallery makes it easier to manage, share and distribute custom virtual machine (VM) images in Azure. Shared Image Gallery is now generally available in all public cloud regions.
New series of Azure Bot Framework enhancements now available
Azure Bot Service, built on Microsoft Bot Framework, makes it easier to develop bots and intelligent agents. New enhancements include: Adaptive dialogs enable developers to create more sophisticated, dynamic conversations.
Announcing Ephemeral OS Disk in Public Preview
We are happy to announce Ephemeral OS disk in Public Preview. Ephemeral OS disks work well for stateless workloads, where applications are tolerant of individual VM failures and are more concerned about the time it takes to deploy at scale or to reimage the individual VMs.
Language Understanding now has analytics dashboard
Language Understanding service makes it easier to build language models by extending roles to all entity types, dynamic lists, and providing a new analytics dashboard.
QnA Maker now supports multi-turn dialogs
QnA Maker now can handle multi-turn conversation and is even more simple to deploy without code
Microsoft Authentication Library for Javascript
Developers building a Single Page Javascript App can use MSAL.js to securely sign-in and authenticate any Microsoft identity (Azure AD and Microsoft Accounts) and call Microsoft Graph or other APIs.
Microsoft Bot Framework enhancements
New feature enhancements to the Microsoft Bot Framework allow developers to handle complex dialogs with users while also enjoying more natural language experiences. The updates include the ability to improve the dialog management process — necessitating less code by using adaptive dialogs. Additionally, Language Generation allows developers to decouple language resources for their bot and then manage those resources in separate files, avoiding the need to hardcode bot responses.
Azure Cosmos DB API for Spark and etcd
Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed multi-model database service, now offers APIs for Apache Spark and for etcd, a distributed key-value store designed to securely store data across a cluster. These updates bolster the abilities of Cosmos DB users to build and manage operational analytics workloads that run real time over globally distributed data. <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>See documentation for <a href="https://aka.ms/SparkAPI" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Spark API | </a>See documentation for <a href="https://aka.ms/EtcdAPI" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">etcd API</a>
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.
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