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Azure IoT Central new and updated features—February 2021
February updates include device model, API, dashboard, and documentation improvements.
February 2021
Azure IoT Central new and updated features—January 2021
January updates include jobs improvements, new API features, new data export features, and documentation enhancements.
December 2020
Azure IoT Central new and updated features—November 2020
November updates include IoT Plug and Play support, new pricing tier, a preview of the jobs API, and documentation updates.
November 2020
Azure IoT Central new and updated features—October 2020
October updates job scheduling, enhanced IoT Edge support, dashboard improvements, and documentation updates.
October 2020
Azure IoT Central new and updated features—September 2020
September updates include the data export feature, more jobs improvements, offline commands, new dashboard formatting capabilities, new Power Automate templates, and documentation enhancements.
September 2020
New IoT Event Learning Path
A new Event Learning Path is now available for solution architects, business decision makers, and developers interested in IoT Solutions with Azure IoT Services.
Announcing the unified Azure Certified Device program
A unified and enhanced Azure Certified Device program was announced at Microsoft Ignite, expanding on previous Microsoft certification offerings that validate IoT devices meet specific capabilities and are built to run on Azure. This program offers a low-cost opportunity for device builders to increase visibility of their products while making it easy for solution builders and end customers to find the right device for their IoT solutions.
Azure IoT Central new and updated features—August 2020
August updates include jobs improvements, a new file upload feature, a preview of the new data export feature, CLI updates, and documentation enhancements.
IoT Hub TLS certificate update
Microsoft is updating Azure services in a phased manner to use TLS certificates from a different set of Certificate Authorities.
August 2020
Azure Certified for Plug and Play is now available
IoT Plug and Play device certification is now available from Microsoft as part of the Azure Certified device program.
Azure IoT Central UI new and updated features—July 2020
July updates include jobs improvements, CLI updates, documentation enhancements, new REST APIs, and a new mobile gateway sample.
New Azure IoT Central App Template - Video Analytics is now available
Microsoft and Intel have collaborated to build end-to-end video analytics solutions using Azure IoT Central & Live Video Analytics. IoT Central application template is removing the complexity and challenges related to Video Analytics solution development and deployment.
July 2020
Azure IoT Central UI new and updated features—June 2020
June 2020 feature updates for Azure IoT Central are now available.
Azure IoT Central UI and documentation updates—June 2020
June 2020 UI and documentation updates for Azure IoT Central are now available.
June 2020
Azure IoT Central jobs and metrics feature updates—May 2020
May 2020 jobs and metrics feature updates for Azure IoT Central are now available.
Azure IoT Central—May 2020 dashboard updates
Azure IoT Central May 2020 dashboard feature updates are now available.
May 2020
Azure IoT Central - Build 2020 announcements
New Azure IoT Central features, including new template and support for Azure Sphere and Azure IoT Edge, are now available.
Azure IoT Central—April 2020 new features
April 2020 new features in Azure IoT Central are now available.
Azure IoT Central—April 2020 updates
April 2020 feature updates in Azure IoT Central are now available.
April 2020
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