Updates Archives
Monthly updates for August 2021
HB-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired by 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Transition to new HPC virtual machines by 31 August 2024.
Azure Blob storage - Inventory generally availability
Administrators can enable a daily or weekly inventory to be created to gain understanding of their blobs and containers.
Migrate your Azure IoT Central apps to version 3 before 1 March 2022
Target retirement date: March 01, 2022
IoT Central V2 is retiring 1 March 2022.
Upgrade to Text-to-Speech Neural Voice by 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
All standard Text-to-Speech voices will be retired on 31 August 2024.
Update Java SDK 3.x to Java SDK 4.x by 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
We’ll be retiring version 3.x of the Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK on 31 August 2024.
Select Azure Cognitive Search skills will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Upgrade your skills to version 3 of Azure Cognitive Search sentiment analysis and entity recognition skills.
Azure Monitor’s Baseline and CalculateBaseline APIs will be retired on 30 November 2021
Target retirement date: November 30, 2021
Azure Monitor’s Baseline and CalculateBaseline APIs will be retired on 30 November 2021, use the MetricBaselines API instead.
Placement polices now in public preview for Azure VMware Solution
Placement policies enable admins to specify constraints or rules when allocating Virtual Machines within an Azure VMware Solution private cloud. With this update the creation and assignment of vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) rules for running Virtual Machines in an Azure VMware Solution SDDC has been simplified and is now executable directly from the Azure Portal for cloud admin roles.
General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—July 2021
July updates include enhancements to device information displays and new features to help you manage your IoT Edge devices.
Public preview: Address changes on an Azure virtual network that has active peerings
You can now update your virtual network address space without needing to remove the peering links on their virtual networking and incurring any downtime.
Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements - August 2021
New features Cross Location Compute, Hierarchical Time Series, and Compute Instance auto-shutdown and auto-start capabilities are now available in preview in Azure Machine Learning.
General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 21.08 expected on Aug 25
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.
General availability: GitHub Codespaces
GitHub Codespaces is now available to all GitHub Teams and GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers.
Automatic Azure VM extension upgrade capabilities now generally available
Automatic extension upgrade provides safe and automatic upgrades for extensions on Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets, keeping your environments more secure and up to date.
Public preview: Discovery and assessment for ASP.NET web apps with Azure Migrate
Secure your connection to Azure Migrate services with Azure Migrate Private Link
Public preview: Containerize apps and migrate to AKS and Azure App Service with Azure Migrate
Azure Migrate: App Containerization helps you containerize and migrate ASP.NET and Java web applications to Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure App Service.
General availability: Azure VPN Client for macOS
Azure VPN Client for macOS enables you to utilize features of Azure AD natively, such as multi-factor authentication, conditional access, and user-based policies for you Mac clients.
General availability: Introducing global disaster recovery via Azure Site Recovery
Replicate your virtual machines to any Azure region on the planet to safeguard your applications from disaster.
Public preview: Azure Percept DK July (2107) software update is available
The Azure Percept July update includes fixes related to security, Wi-Fi/Network, and OOBE UI localization.
General availability: Azure ExpressRoute Global Reach: 2 new locations
ExpressRoute Global Reach allows you to link ExpressRoute circuits in different locations together to make a private network between your on-premises networks.
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