Updates Archives
Monthly updates for December 2019
Azure Red Hat OpenShift region expansion
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now generally available in Brazil South, Central India, Japan East, Korea Central, North Central US and South Africa North.
Service-aided subnet configuration for managed instance in Azure SQL Database is now available
To address customer security and manageability requirements, managed instance, a deployment capability of Azure SQL Database, is transitioning from a manual to service-aided subnet configuration.
Improvements to Azure Monitor for containers could impact your queries
The new Azure Monitor for containers agent, version ciprod12042019, introduces major improvements in resource use and data volume optimizations to help reduce costs. As part of these improvements, we’ve disabled the collection of Name and Image fields in the ContainerLog table since these fields are available in other tables
Azure DevOps—Create a dashboard without a team
With this latest update sprint to Azure DevOps, it’s now possible to create a dashboard without associating it to a team. The dashboard will be visible to everyone in the project and you decide who can edit or manage it. In addition, a sprint burndown thumbnail has been added. Configure it to burndown based on stories, story points, or by count of tasks.
Azure Backup resource group for virtual machines
Azure Backup policy for virtual machines (VMs) now lets you customize the resource group name created by Backup so you can update it as your company requires.
IoT Hub feature, service tags, is now generally available
With the general availability of IoT Hub service tags, customers can discover IoT Hub service endpoints’ IP addresses with ease.
Azure Data Box Disk is now available in East Asia
Azure Data Box Disk is now available in the East Asia (Hong Kong) region. This is in addition to the other Azure regions where Data Box Disk is already available—US, EU, Canada, Australia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Azure Government (US).
Azure Monitor for VMs now stores data in dedicated data types
Azure Monitor for virtual machines (VMs) now stores computer-related and process-related data in dedicated data types, making it simpler to query against as well as offering quicker data ingestion.
Azure Service Map now stores data in dedicated data types
Service Map now stores computer-related and process-related data in dedicated data types, making it simpler to query against as well as offering quicker data ingestion.
Data Factory Expands Data Flow Parameterization Capabilities
Azure Data Factory expands parameterization capabilities to make data flows even more reusable and scalable.
Azure Data Factory supports preserving metadata during file copy
Azure Data Factory copy activity now supports preserving metadata during file copy among Amazon S3, Azure Blob, and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
New Azure PowerShell module is available in preview
The new PowerShell module for Azure provides updates to all Azure services and comes with a preview module for Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Functions.
Azure Service Fabric 7.0 is now available
The new Azure Service Fabric release introduces several new features as well as stability and performance improvements.
Proximity placement groups are now available
Proximity placement groups—an Azure Virtual Machine logical grouping capability to decrease inter-VM network latency—is now available.
Azure Database for MySQL support for MySQL 8.0 is now available
Azure Database for MySQL now provides general availability support for the latest major version of MySQL, version 8.0.
Azure Functions 3.0 go-live release is now available
The go-live release for Azure Functions 3.0 is now available, so it’s now possible to build and deploy 3.0 functions in production. Functions 3.0 brings new capabilities including the ability to target .NET Core 3.1 and Node 12.
Use GitHub Actions to trigger a run in Azure Pipelines
GitHub Actions for Azure Pipelines is now available in the sprint 161 update of Azure DevOps. Use GitHub Actions to trigger an Azure Pipelines run directly from your GitHub Actions workflow.
Custom Translator—November 2019 improvements and language models update
Target availability: Q4 2019
Here are the updates on Microsoft Custom Translator bug fixes, improvements, and new/refreshed models for November 2019.
Azure API Management Consumption tier is now available in 13 new regions
Azure API Management Consumption tier is now available in 13 more regions (19 in total).
HC-Series High Performance Computing VMs now available in South Central US
HC-Series VMs are now available in South Central US
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