Updates Archives
Monthly updates for August 2020
Azure Private Link support in Azure Data Factory now available
Azure Data Factory (ADF) now supports Azure Private Link.
Azure Blob versioning is now general available
Azure storage strives to protect your business critial data from any accident or attack. We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Blob versioning.
Windows Virtual Desktop is now available in the Azure Government cloud (in preview)
Get started today with Windows Virtual Desktop in public preview in US Government regions. Deploy and scale Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes.
Upcoming changes to Standard Public IPs and Standard Load Balancers
The zone related behavior in Standard Public IP address and Standard Load Balancer is being changed.
Stream Analytics now can be run on Azure Stack Hub
Azure Stream Analytics is now available on Azure Stack Hub via IoT Edge Runtime.
Configure upstream source for universal Packages with Azure Artifacts
This feature will add the ability to configure your Azure Artifacts feeds to automatically download Universal Packages from upstream sources on demand.
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 access control list recursive update in public preview
Set, update, or remove access control lists (ACLs) recursively for existing Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 directories and files.
Azure Data Explorer: Create a table with the new 1-click experience
Create a table easily and quickly using an intuitive 1-click wizard experience.
Support to assess physical, AWS, GCP servers now generally available
The assessments offer Azure suitability analysis, migration cost planning and performance-based rightsizing.
AzCopy v10.6 released with updated sync features and larger blob size support
AzCopy v10.6 sync now supports access control lists (ACLs) and properties as well as larger block blob size and blob versioning.
Public Preview: Cognitive Services Form Recognizer v2.1
Form Recognizer v2.1-preview.1 has been released. It includes support for new languages, checkbox/selection marks, and the submit multiple form types to a single model Id.
Azure Machine Learning announces output dataset (Preview)
With the new output datasets capability, write back to cloud storage and configure and register output data.
Simplified Chinese language support now available in Azure Cognitive Services Computer Vision public preview
Computer Vision Read API v3.1, part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with support for Simplified Chinese language.
Azure Cognitive Services Translator Text— New languages now available
Translator Text now supports the Odia, Dari, Pashto, Central Kurdish and Northern Kurdish languages.
Azure Policy Compliance Scan Action for GitHub Workflows is in public preview
Trigger on-demand Azure policy compliance scan on Azure resources from GitHub workflows and proceed/fail workflow execution depending on compliance state of resources.
Azure Site Recovery update rollup 49 - August 2020
The latest Azure Site Recovery update provides fixes and download links for Site Recovery components.
Azure IoT Central UI new and updated features—July 2020
July updates include jobs improvements, CLI updates, documentation enhancements, new REST APIs, and a new mobile gateway sample.
Azure Backup for SAP HANA databases running on RHEL is now generally available
On August 1, 2020, Azure Backups support for HANA databases running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) became generally available. This offering is available across all Azure regions except for Germany Northeast, Germany Central, France South, and US Gov IOWA.
PowerShell support in Durable Functions is in public preview
Developers can now orchestrate complex automation workflows in Azure Functions using familiar language constructs in PowerShell 7
Serverless offer for Azure Cosmos DB now in preview
A new consumption-based offer that requires no capacity management is now available
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