Updates Archives
Monthly updates for November 2020
Azure IoT Central new and updated features—October 2020
October updates job scheduling, enhanced IoT Edge support, dashboard improvements, and documentation updates.
New version of SSMS and ADS tools for serverless SQL pools in Azure Synapse Analytics
Serverless SQL pool released a new version of SSMS and ADS which improves scripting in object explorer and increases stability.
Azure achieves Service Organization Controls compliance for 14 additional services
Azure gives you some of the industry’s broadest certifications for the critical SOC 1, 2, and 3 compliance offering, which is widely used around the world.
Service Fabric release 7.2 is now available
This release brings new features, bug fixes, and performance enhancements.
Support for Oracle WebLogic Server on Azure Kubernetes Service is now available
This initial release of solutions jointly developed between Microsoft and Oracle enables you to bring your WebLogic workloads to a managed Kubernetes service on Azure.
.NET 5 now available in App Service
App Service support for .NET 5 applications is available across all public regions and scenarios on both Windows and Linux App Service plans.
New constrained vCPUs capable VMs now available
The latest memory optimized Azure VM series Esv4, Edsv4, and Easv4 now offer new constrained vCPU VM sizes.
SQL Server Reporting Services Virtual Machine images now available
Migrate SQL Server Reporting Services workloads into Azure using pre-configured VM images to enable easier workload management, more efficient onboarding to the cloud, and leverage benefits by selecting preconfigured images.
New recommendations from Azure Advisor are now available
Four new best practice recommendations will help you improve the reliability and performance of your Azure resources
Azure Automation is now available in Brazil Southeast region
Automate tasks across Azure & Non-Azure environment using Powershell and Python based scripts.
SQL Server Analysis Services Virtual Machine images now available
SQL Server Analysis Services Virtual Machine images (in general availability) can help make your workloads more efficient, enable an easier onboarding experience, and helps viewing your different virtual machine workloads and managing them.
Premium tier for Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available
Premium tier is ideal for big data analytics applications and workloads that require low and consistent latency (fast access) or have a high number of transactions.
Azure HDInsight ID Broker (HIB) is now generally available
HDInsight ID Broker (HIB) provides modern OAuth authentication and enables federated users to login to cluster without syncing on-premise password hashes to the cloud.
Azure Sphere 20.10 update is now available
Learn about what's new in the the 20.10 release, including new and updated features in the OS, SDK, and extensions for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
New Azure Firewall capabilities will be generally available in Q4 CY2020
Custom DNS, DNS Proxy capability, and FQDN filtering in network rules will be generally available.
Azure Monitor Application Insights Java 3.0 is now generally available
Now you can monitor your Java apps without a single change of code - the Application Java agent can be enabled through just a couple of configuration changes, and will monitor Java applications in any environment.
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 recursive access control list (ACL) update is generally available
Set, update, or remove access control lists (ACLs) recursively for existing Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 filesystem.
Azure Backup—Soft delete for SQL Server and SAP HANA running in Azure VM
Soft Delete for Azure Backup for SQL and SAP HANA in Azure Virtual Machines is now generally available.
New region added to Azure HDInsight
Azure HDinsight is now generally available in UAE Central
HoloLens 2 Development Edition is now available for purchase in the United States
The Development Edition combines the capabilities of HoloLens 2 with Azure, Unity, and Pixyz to empower developers to build interactive experiences and render 3D holographic content with people, places, and things.
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