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Monthly updates for July 2022

Jul 28

General availability: Azure Sphere version 22.07

NOW AVAILABLE

The 22.07 release includes reduced connect-to-cloud time for the OS, resulting in lower energy use; best practices guidance for production-ready applications; and optimized manufacturing scripts.

  • Azure Sphere
  • Operating System
  • SDK and Tools
Jul 28

Public preview: Azure Synapse Analytics Spark elastic pool storage

IN PREVIEW

Reduce job failures by using elastic pool storage.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Services
  • Features
  • Open Source
Jul 28

Generally available: Trusted Launch support for DCsv3 and DCdsv3 series Virtual Machines

NOW AVAILABLE

DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series virtual machines (VMs) now supports trusted launch feature.

  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Security
Jul 27

Generally available: Guided tour experience added to Azure IoT Central

NOW AVAILABLE

You now have the option to take the phone as a device guided tour when creating a new application in Azure IoT Central.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features
Jul 26

General availability: VM Applications – Manage and deploy applications to VMs and VMSS

NOW AVAILABLE

VM Apps is a service that simplifies management, sharing, and global distribution of application packages at scale.

  • Features
Jul 26

Public preview: SQL DB output connector improvements in Stream Analytics

IN PREVIEW

You can now configure your Azure Stream Analytics job to write to a SQL table that hasn't yet been created or see schema mismatch detection for an existing SQL table.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Features
Jul 25

Public preview: Share images across subscriptions and tenants with new Compute Gallery feature

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2022

Using direct shared gallery, a feature of Azure Compute Gallery, you can now share VM images directly with other subscriptions and tenants.

  • Features
  • Gallery
Jul 25

Generally available: Azure Stream Analytics in four new regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Regions & Datacenters
Jul 25

Generally available: New KMS DNS in Azure Global Cloud

NOW AVAILABLE

All Azure Windows VMs provisioned in Azure Global Cloud from July 2022, are activated via azkms.core.windows.net, which points to two new KMS IP addresses, 20.118.99.224 and 40.83.235.53.

  • Windows Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Operating System
Jul 25

Public preview: Managed attributes in Microsoft Purview data catalog

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2022

Append organizational metadata to your technical assets by creating and applying managed attributes in the Microsoft Purview data catalog.

  • Features
Jul 25

Generally available: Rich text editor in Microsoft Purview data catalog

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2022

Add rich text formatting to asset and term descriptions in the Microsoft Purview data catalog.

  • Microsoft Purview
  • Features
Jul 25

General availability: Microsoft Cost Details API for EA and MCA customers

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2022

Cost Details API is now generally available for use by EA and MCA customers.

  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • Management
  • Features
Jul 21

General availability: NVads A10 v5 Virtual Machines

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2022

NVads A10 v5 series virtual machines are now generally available. These are ideal for graphic, video, and AI workloads and include GPU portioning, making them perfect for any size workload.

  • Pricing & Offerings
Jul 21

Public preview: Enhanced experience to opt in to improved backup alerting

IN PREVIEW

Move to Azure Monitor based alerts for Azure Backup with just a few clicks.

  • Azure Backup
  • Azure Monitor
  • Management
Jul 20

General availability: Azure confidential VMs (DCasv5/ECasv5-series VMs)

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability of Azure confidential Virtual Machines.

  • Microsoft Inspire
Jul 20

Public preview: Azure Monitor for SAP solutions

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor for SAP solutions allows you to collect and visualize end-to-end SAP telemetry in the Azure portal.

  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Microsoft Inspire
  • Features
Jul 20

Generally available: CI/CD Guidance for Azure IoT Central

NOW AVAILABLE

CI/CD Guidance and sample code now available for Azure IoT Central deployment pipelines.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features
Jul 19

Public preview: Azure Marketplace for Arc-enabled Azure Stack HCI

IN PREVIEW

Get popular VM images directly from Microsoft and third-party publishers via the Azure Marketplace.

  • Azure Stack HCI
  • Microsoft Inspire
Jul 19

Public preview: Remote support for Arc-enabled Azure Stack HCI

IN PREVIEW

Get remote access to your cluster for support and maintenance purposes.

  • Azure Stack HCI
  • Microsoft Inspire
Jul 19

Public preview: Arc-enabled guest VMs with extensions for Azure Stack HCI

IN PREVIEW

Simplify management and configuration of your guest virtual machine.

  • Azure Stack HCI
  • Microsoft Inspire

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