Updates Archives
Monthly updates for February 2021
We are retiring Classic Azure Migrate on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Transition to Azure Migrate by 29 February 2024.
Action required: Switch to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 by 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Migrate to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
Start using new alerts in Azure Monitor for Azure Government Cloud
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Classic alerts in Azure Monitor will be retired on 29 February 2024
Start using new alerts in Azure Monitor for Azure China 21Vianet
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Classic alerts in Azure Monitor will be retired on 29 February 2024.
Update the Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK by 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
We’ll be retiring version Sync 2.x of the Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK.
Azure Stack Edge Pro FPGA is retiring on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 28, 2024
Upgrade to the new Azure Stack Edge Pro GPU devices.
Azure Batch rendering VM images & licensing will be retired on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Azure Batching rendering VM images & licensing are being retired.
We’re retiring the standard version of Custom Voice on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Upgrade to Custom Neural Voice.
We are retiring Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics v2.x on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Transition to Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics v3.
Please upgrade your Azure AD Connect sync to a newer version by 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
We’re retiring older versions of Azure Active Directory Connect.
Azure Batch Transcription and Customization Rest API v2 will be retired by 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Update your code that uses Azure Batch Transcription and Customization Rest API.
Azure Application Gateway analytics will be retired on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Transition to Azure Monitor Network Insights workbook.
Update your scripts to use Az PowerShell modules by 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
We'll retire AzureRM PowerShell modules on 29 February 2024.
Update your Azure Media Services REST API and SDKs to v3 by 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
We’ll be retiring version 2 of the Azure Media Services API and the associated client SDKs on 29 February 2024.
We’re retiring Classic Application Insights on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Transition to workspace-based Application Insights.
Jenkins plug-ins for Azure are being retired on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Start using Azure CLI for a better experience integrating with Azure service.
AKS legacy Azure AD integration will be retired on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Transition to AKS Managed Azure AD by 29 February 2024.
We’re retiring Azure Network Watcher Connection Monitor (classic) on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Transition to the new Connection Monitor in Azure Network Watcher.
We’re retiring Network Performance Monitor on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Transition to the new Connection Monitor in Azure Network Watcher.
Earlier versions of Analysis Services client libraries will retire on 30 June 2021
Target retirement date: June 30, 2021
Update your Analytics Services client libraries to version 15.1.37.40 or higher by 30 June 2021.
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