Updates Archives
Monthly updates for August 2021
Azure Synapse Analytics Compute Optimized data flows will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Transition from Compute Optimized data flows to General Purpose data flows by 31 August 2024.
Hard coded IP address for Azure Site Recovery will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Hard coded IP for Azure Site Recovery will be retired on 31 August 2024 – transition to using service tags.
Retiring version Async 2.x of the Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Update to Java Async 2.x to Java SDK 4.x by 31 August 2024.
Multi-step web tests will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Transition to custom availability tests in Application Insights by 31 August 2024.
Transition to new work item integration in Application Insights by 31 August 2022
Target retirement date: August 31, 2022
Work item integration (classic) will be retired on 31 August 2022.
Machine Learning Studio (classic) will retire on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Machine Learning Studio (classic) will be retired by 31 August 2024 – transition to Azure Machine Learning.
Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Migrate your cloud services to a new deployment model before 31 August 2024.
Azure Data Factory Compute Optimized data flows will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Transition from Compute Optimized data flows to General Purpose data flows by 31 August 2024.
Basic and Standard A-series VMs will retire on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Migrate your Azure workloads to Av2-series VMs before 31 August 2024.
Azure AD B2C redirect URL login.microsoftonline.com will be retired on 31 August 2022
Update apps using Azure AD B2C to new redirect b2clogin.com.
Version 2.x of the Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target availability: Q3 2024
Update your Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK to version 3 by 31 August 2024.
H-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired by 31 August 2022
Target retirement date: August 31, 2022
Migrate to HPC, GP, or RAM optimized VMs by 31 August 2022
Release annotations using API keys will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Transition to new release annotations without using API keys in Application Insights.
We're retiring the Log Analytics agent in Azure Monitor on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Start using the Azure Monitor agent instead of the Log Analytics agent before 31 August 2024.
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.
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.
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