Updates Archives
Monthly updates for August 2019
Custom OpenID Connect identity providers for user flows in Azure AD B2C
Use any OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity provider in the built-in user flows in Azure AD B2C.
New enhancements to Azure Boards are now available
Azure Boards has new items that can help enhance your experience. For example, you can now customize system picklist values such as severity, activity, and priority. In addition, rule support is now available for setting fields to read-only or required based on group membership. Finally, there’s a new extension that will allow you to create cascading picklists on your work item form.
Pass through an identity provider's access token in Azure AD B2C
Applications can now get the identity provider's access token passed through as part of the Azure AD B2C token.
Azure Service Fabric 6.5 Second Refresh Release is Now Available
Azure Service Fabric 6.5 Second Refresh Release rolled out last month with key announcements, along with bug fixes, and performance enhancements.
Service Fabric Azure Resource Manager (ARM) application and service deployment is now generally available
The deployment of Service Fabric applications as resources via Azure Resource Manager is now generally available.
The service principal is now available for Power BI Embedded
Service principal allows you to access resources or perform operations using Power BI API without the need for a user to sign in or have a Power BI Pro license.
Visual Authoring API for Power BI Embedded now available
The new Power BI Report Authoring SDK extension allows programmatic creation of visuals, binding them to columns, measures, hierarchies, and personalizing them by setting properties like axis visibility and titles.
Azure AD Application Proxy integration with the Power BI Mobile application
Use Azure AD Application Proxy to access reports in the Power BI Report Server hosted on-premises from the Power BI mobile application
Recent Rendering performance improvements now available in Power BI Embedded
Power BI Embedded recently improved performance in two key areas: embedding different reports into the same iframe and query caching for embedded reports.
New filters experience is available in Power BI Embedded
The new Power BI filters experience is available in Power BI Embedded and in embedded reports as well. The new experience has an updated design and useful features, such as hide, lock, and rename filters.
Public Preview of Managed Identity for Azure Service Fabric applications
Azure Service Fabric applications now support user-assigned and system-assigned managed identities.
Announcing Azure Backup limited public preview support for large disks up to 30TB size
Today, we are announcing the limited public preview of larger and more powerful Azure Managed Disks of up to 30 TiB size. This preview provides production level support for managed virtual machines.
FastTrack for Azure
FastTrack for Azure is a customer success program for organizations with cloud projects that enables the rapid, effective design and deployment of solutions. It includes tailored guidance from Azure engineers that leverages proven practices and architectural guides.
Azure SignalR Service introduces Event Grid integration feature
Announcing a new Azure SignalR Service feature that enables the service to publish client events to Event Grid. SignalR applications can subscribe and respond to these client events without the need for a dedicated app server for these events.
Service Tag Discovery API is now available in preview
Service Tag Discovery API is in preview. It's now possible to programmatically retrieve global IP address information for Azure and its services using the Discovery API.
Azure Monitor Application Insights Status Monitor v2 is now generally available
Announcing Application Insights Status Monitor v2 is now generally available.
Azure IoT Edge support in Azure DevOps Project and Azure Pipelines
We're excited to announce that IoT Edge support in Azure DevOps Project and Azure Pipelines is generally available. Developers can easily set up CI/CD pipelines for IoT Edge projects with best practices.
Azure Migrate is now available in Australia, Canada, India, and Japan
Azure Migrate now supports the creation of migration projects in Australia, Canada, India, and Japan geographies.
Disaster recovery of Azure Disk Encryption-enabled virtual machines
Azure Site Recovery now supports disaster recovery for Azure Disk Encryption-enabled virtual machines without Azure Active Directory app.
Azure Firewall feature updates for July 2019
Here are the Azure Firewall feature updates for July 2019.
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