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Monthly updates for May 2023
Transition to Azure AD to query data from Azure Monitor application insights by 31 March 2026
Target retirement date: March 31, 2026
API keys for querying data from Azure Monitor application insights will be retired on 31 March 2026
Switch to Azure AD authentication for application insights by 30 September 2025
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
API keys used to stream live metrics telemetry into application insights will be retired on 30 September 2025.
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.
Retirement of SQL Server Native Client (SNAC) OLE DB provider for linked servers in Azure SQL Managed Instance
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.
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