Updates Archives
Monthly updates for April 2020
Azure HPC Cache – Express Snapshots is now available
Azure HPC Cache recent updates include express snapshots, MTU setting support, expansion to South Central US and more.
Azure Support API is generally available
Create and manage Azure support tickets programmatically
Automatic instance repairs for virtual machine scale sets now available
Virtual machine scale sets now provide the capability to automatically repair unhealthy instances based on application health status.
Azure DevOps update to increase productivity and reduce latency
An update to Azure DevOps includes improvements to pull-request actionability, pipeline security and compliance, and npm API performances to increase productivity and reduce latency.
Azure Analysis Services—Improved query replica synchronization now available
Improved query replica synchronization in Azure Analysis Services is now generally available. Analysis Services features improved query-replica synchronization in scale-out environments with client queries distributed across one or more query replicas, reducing response times for high concurrency workloads.
Azure Analysis Services—Query interleaving is now generally available
Query interleaving in Azure Analysis Services is now generally available. Query interleaving helps to improve the user experience in high-concurrency scenarios where a lot of queries are submitted close to each other.
Azure SQL Database Hyperscale—Change tracking support now available
Azure SQL Database Hyperscale now fully supports change tracking, a lightweight solution that provides an efficient change tracking mechanism for applications. Use Azure SQL engine’s native ability to keep track of which rows have been inserted, updated, or deleted on behalf of the user.
SQL Server 2019 IaaS images with Linux distribution support now available
Azure Marketplace pay-as-you-go images for SQL Server 2019 on RHEL 8.0, Ubuntu 18.04, and SLES 12 SP5 are now generally available.
Azure Spot support for Azure Kubernetes Service is in preview
Take advantage of underused capacity as a way to achieve significant cost savings.
Many-to-many relationships in Azure Analysis Services are now generally available
Many-to-many relationships in Azure Analysis Services are now generally available. These are relationships between tables where both columns are non-unique, and are based on many-to-many relationships in Power BI.
Azure Analysis Services calculation groups are now generally available
Calculation groups for Azure Analysis Services are now generally available. Use them to declutter the user interface and improve the overall navigation experience for your users.
Virtual machine scale sets—Automatic image upgrades for custom images
Virtual machine scale sets now provides the ability to automatically deploy new versions of custom images to scale set virtual machines.
Azure Virtual Network now supports reverse DNS lookup
Azure Virtual Network now supports reverse DNS lookup (PTR DNS queries) for virtual machine IP addresses by default.
Replace existing disks is now supported for virtual machines with custom images
Support is now available for virtual machines (VMs) with custom images to replace existing disks during the restore flow.
New Azure API Management Visual Studio Code extension now available
A new version of the API Management Visual Studio Code extension is now available.
Azure Machine Learning—New log streaming feature is now available
Log streaming is now available in the Azure Machine Learning studio UI.
Java - Codeless application monitoring with Azure Monitor Application Insights in public preview
Monitor Java applications in any environment without changing the code with Azure Monitor Application Insights. A preview of the new codeless Java agent is now available.
Azure Monitor Logs new create workspace experience
Collect and analyze logs from your Azure estate using the power and flexibility of Azure Monitor Logs.
Storage Analytics logs for Azure Data Lake Storage are now generally available
Diagnosing Azure Data Lake Storage just got easier with Storage Analytics logs.
The preview version of Event Hubs on Azure Stack Hub is now available
The preview version of Event Hubs is now available on Azure Stack Hub.
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