Updates Archives
Monthly updates for November 2019
Azure Storage—Restoration of NSG flow logs retention
Retention on NSG flow logs was recently disabled, however, the functionality has been restored for general purpose v2 (GPv2) accounts and Blob storage accounts. Support for general purpose v1 (GPv1) storage accounts in NSG flow logs is being deprecated and retention for them will not be restored.
Azure SQL Database—Extensions for index resumable online operations
Now in general availability, a new configuration option, PAUSED_RESUMABLE_INDEX_ABORT_DURATION_MINUTES, has been added to ALTER DATABASE SCOPED CONFIGURATION (Transact-SQL) for resumable online index operations.
Azure Active Directory server principals (logins) for SQL managed instance
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) server principals (also known as Azure AD logins) for managed instance are now in general availability.
Azure Cosmos DB API now supports MongoDB version 3.6
The Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB now supports MongoDB wire protocol version 6 and server version 3.6. All new accounts provisioned using the Azure portal will have the option to provision with server version 3.6.
Azure Cosmos DB supports GROUP BY for queries for SQL (Core) API
Now in general availability, Azure Cosmos DB supports GROUP BY for queries for SQL (Core) API. This is one of our top asks from users and we are excited to release this capability.
Device telemetry events from IoT Hub to Event Grid
Azure IoT Hub integrates with Azure Event Grid so that you can send event notifications to other services and trigger downstream processes. workflows
IoT Hub message routing to Azure Data Lake StoreGen2 is now available
IoT Hub message routing to Data Lake StoreGen2 is now available
SAP HANA backup using Azure Backup is now GA in UK South region
The solution to backup SAP HANA DBs in Azure VMs using Azure Backup is now generally available in UK South region. The Azure Backup solution is also certified by SAP HANA and is the only native cloud backup solution to be certified as such.
IoT Hub message enrichment is now available
IoT Hub message enrichment adds the ability to stamp messages with rich information before they’re sent, simplifying downstream processing and accelerating customer insights.
New Azure SQL Database backup storage metrics are now generally available
New metrics are now available to monitor Azure SQL Database backup storage consumption.
The latest Azure IoT Edge release is now available
The latest version of Azure IoT Edge includes the following improvements. See the full release notes on the GitHub release page.
Azure HDInsight—Simplify NSG rules management using service tags
Azure HDInsight now supports the use of service tags to simplify inbound network security group (NSG) rule management. Azure service tags group multiple IP addresses under a single user friendly tag. Administrators need to only create rules by referring to the tags while Microsoft takes the responsibility of keeping the IP addresses up to date. Administrators maintaining Azure HDInsight clusters can now benefit from this manageability improvement.
Azure Cognitive Services Translator Text— Maori language now available
Target availability: Q4 2019
Translator Text now supports the Maori language.
New Dashboard with Cost Estimator
Azure Lab Services added a dashboard view enabling instructors to view the summary of the lab
IoT Hub new features now available for device and module twins
Announcing several feature improvements for Azure IoT Hub device and module twins, namely the support for deep property nesting, and increases to the twin document max size and key/value lengths.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL single server is now available in Switzerland regions
Azure Database for PostgreSQL is now generally available in the recently announced regions of Switzerland.
Azure Database for MariaDB server is now available in Switzerland regions
Azure Database for MariaDB is now generally available in the recently announced regions of Switzerland.
Azure Database for MySQL is now available in Switzerland regions
Azure Database for MySQL is now generally available in the recently announced regions of Switzerland.
Azure Site Recovery is now available in new Azure regions
Azure Site Recovery is now available in Norway East and Norway West Azure regions.
Microsoft cloud in Norway opens with availability of Microsoft Azure
Microsoft announces the availability of Microsoft Azure from our new cloud datacenter regions in Norway, marking a major milestone as the first global cloud provider to deliver enterprise-grade services in country.
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