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Monthly updates for May 2023

May 15

Transition to Azure AD to query data from Azure Monitor application insights by 31 March 2026

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Target retirement date: March 31, 2026

API keys for querying data from Azure Monitor application insights will be retired on 31 March 2026

  • Retirements
May 15

Switch to Azure AD authentication for application insights by 30 September 2025

IN DEVELOPMENT

Target retirement date: September 30, 2025

API keys used to stream live metrics telemetry into application insights will be retired on 30 September 2025.

  • Retirements
May 12

We're retiring Speech-to-text REST preview API v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023

Target retirement date: May 12, 2023

We recently made the Speech-to-text REST API version 3.1 generally available. With this release, we'll retire the preview version v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023.

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May 5

Retirement of SQL Server Native Client (SNAC) OLE DB provider for linked servers in Azure SQL Managed Instance

IN DEVELOPMENT

Target retirement date: June 01, 2023

All existing linked server objects configured to use SQLNCLI will automatically switch to using the fully compatible third (current) generation of provider – known as Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server or MSOLEDBSQL.

  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Retirements
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