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RSS feedJuly 2023
Windows Server end-of-support (EOS): Upgrade seamlessly with Azure Migrate (Public preview)
Target availability: Q3 2023
With Azure Migrate, seamlessly upgrade legacy Windows servers while migrating to Azure, minimizing effort, downtime, and risk. By creating a copy of the server in Azure and performing the upgrade there, the impact on the original server is minimized, ensuring a secure and efficient transition.
March 2023
Public Preview: Azure Migrate - Discover ASP.NET & Java web apps and assess ASP.NET in all environments
Discovery of Java & ASP.NET web apps and assessment of ASP.NET web apps to Azure App Service code (native) on VMware, Hyper-V and Physical servers is now in public preview.
October 2022
Public preview: Azure Migrate - SQL Server migration assessment for migration or modernization
Save cost in Azure for your SQL estate through the new unified discovery and assessment feature in Azure Migrate.
August 2021
Public preview: Discovery and assessment for ASP.NET web apps with Azure Migrate
Secure your connection to Azure Migrate services with Azure Migrate Private Link
Public preview: Containerize apps and migrate to AKS and Azure App Service with Azure Migrate
Azure Migrate: App Containerization helps you containerize and migrate ASP.NET and Java web applications to Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure App Service.
Software inventory and agentless dependency analysis generally available with Azure Migrate
You can inventory installed applications, roles and features and perform dependency analysis on discovered Windows & Linux servers without installing any agents.
June 2021
Azure Migrate private endpoint support available in public preview
Secure your connection to Azure Migrate services with Azure Migrate Private Link.
March 2021
Generally available: Plan your migration to Azure VMware Solution using Azure Migrate
Azure Migrate assessments for Azure VMware Solution with improved node sizing logic is now generally available.
Public preview: At scale discovery and assessment for SQL Server migration to Azure SQL
Azure Migrate now has unified discovery and assessment for SQL Server natively within the Azure Migrate experience.
Public preview: Containerize and migrate apps to Azure Kubernetes Service with Azure Migrate: App Containerization
The new app containerization feature will allow you to migrate your applications to containers on AKS.
General availability: Assessments for migration to Azure VMware Solution
You can seamlessly migrate your VMware applications to Azure with ease due to assessments for migration to Azure VMware Solution.
February 2021
We are retiring Classic Azure Migrate on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Transition to Azure Migrate by 29 February 2024.
November 2020
PowerShell support for Server Migration with Azure Migrate is now generally available
Automate migration of VMware virtual machines to Azure using Azure Migrate and Azure PowerShell
September 2020
Migrate servers to Availability Zones with Azure Migrate
Azure Migrate: Server Migration now offers Availability Zones, a platform native capability.
Migrate to Azure Availability Zones
Azure Migrate Server Migration now offers additional options to help you meet the resiliency requirements for business critical workloads that you are migrating to Azure by taking advantage of platform native capabilities like Availability Zones.
August 2020
Support to assess physical, AWS, GCP servers now generally available
The assessments offer Azure suitability analysis, migration cost planning and performance-based rightsizing.
June 2020
Azure Migrate now supports multiple credentials for discovery of physical servers
Support for adding multiple credentials for discovery and assessment of physical servers and a scale of 1000 physical servers per Azure Migrate appliance
Azure Migrate—Assessment of imported servers is now generally available
Assessment of imported servers in Azure Migrate is now generally available.
April 2020
Azure Migrate is now available in Azure Government
All Azure Migrate features, including agentless discovery and assessment, application inventory, and migration, are now available in Azure Government.
December 2019
Application discovery with Server Assessment in Azure Migrate is now in preview
Discover installed applications, roles, and features with server assessment in Azure Migrate.
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