Updates Archives
Monthly updates for October 2023
ExpressRoute Traffic Collector is now generally available
Use ExpressRoute Traffic Collector to enable collection of flow logs for traffic sent over your ExpressRoute direct circuit.
LSA payload update for fixes on 15-Jan
On the 15-Jan we are going to fix those 2 values in LSA payload to contain the correct values according to our other alerts services.
Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio has Query-Based Dynamic Targets
Azure Chaos Studio has Query-Based Dynamic Targets.
Migrate to Azure Resource Manager control plane API version 2021-11-01 by 30 September 2026
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
Older control plane APIs in Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Relay will be retired.
Retirement notice: Bing Speech will be retired on 3 November 2023
Target retirement date: November 03, 2023
Migrate from Bing Speech to Speech Services and the Speech SDK by 3 November 2023
Azure Cosmos DB built-in Jupyter notebooks will be retired March 30, 2024
Target retirement date: March 30, 2024
On 30 March 2024, the Azure Cosmos DB preview of built-in Jupyter notebooks will be retired. If you’re using notebooks to interact with your Azure Cosmos DB account, transition to run these notebooks using Visual Studio Code’s support for Jupyter notebooks, or your preferred notebooks client.
Azure Activity Logs Legacy solution is replaced by Diagnostic settings
Target retirement date: September 15, 2026
Deprecation of Azure Activity Logs legacy solution and auto migration
Support for TLS 1.0/1.1 on Azure Cache for Redis ending on 31 October 2024
Target retirement date: November 01, 2024
Azure Cache for Redis support for TLS 1.0/1.1 will be retired on 31 October 2024.
Support for Azure Machine Learning Explanation and Fairness Dashboards is ending on 14 March 2025
Target retirement date: March 14, 2025
The Explanation and Fairness Dashboard will be retired on 14 March 2025, please transition to the Responsible AI Dashboard (generally available) by that date. The Responsible AI dashboard will have feature parity and new additional features. You can still create and view the Explanation and Fairness dashboards with our open-source offerings (InterpretML and Fairlearn respectively), which are free for public use on GitHub and will continue to be maintained.
Migrate to Azure Monitor agent–based VM insights by 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Log Analytics agent–based VM insights will be retired.
Some Azure Service Bus SDK libraries will be retired on 30 September 2026—migrate to the latest SDKs
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
Azure Service Bus SDK libraries that don't conform to Azure SDK guidelines will be retired and support will end.
App Service: Backup and Restore over Azure Virtual Network
Customers can now use custom backups, to back up their web app's files and configuration data to a firewall-protected storage account.
Generally Available: Add an Azure Cosmos DB custom endpoint in Azure IoT Hub
Azure IoT Hub now supports the ability to setup an Azure Cosmos DB account as a custom endpoint. This will help route device data from IoT Hub to Azure Cosmos DB directly.
Public Preview: Customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption is now available in US Gov regions (Preview)
Customer keys are protected from attacks for maximum security of their Azure NetApp File volumes; the feature is now available in US Gov regions (Preview)
Public preview: Announcing Microsoft Playwright Testing service: Scalable end-to-end testing for modern web apps
Now in preview: Microsoft Playwright Testing, a new service for running Playwright tests easily at scale. Playwright, a fast-growing, open-source framework, enables reliable end-to-end testing and automation for modern web apps. Microsoft Playwright Testing service uses the cloud, enabling you to simultaneously run Playwright tests with much higher parallelization across different operating system-browser combinations. Learn more https://aka.ms/MPT/about
General Availability: Upgrade your existing Azure Gen2 VMs to Trusted Launch
Enable Trusted Launch foundational compute security on existing Azure Generation 2 VMs.
General availability: Microsoft Azure now available from new cloud region in Italy
Target availability: Q4 2023
Microsoft launched its first cloud region in Italy.
Generally Available: Multi-user authorisation for Backup vaults
Multi-user authorization provides enhanced protection for your backup data against unauthorized critical operations.
Generally available: Enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup
Enhanced soft delete helps you recover your backup data even after it has been deleted, giving you protection against data loss scenarios like ransomwares, malicious actors, and accidental deletes.
Public Preview: Azure Data Explorer Add-On for Splunk
Azure Data Explorer Add-On for Splunk (Public Preview)
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