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General availability: Azure App Service Mobile Apps
The Mobile Apps feature in Azure App Service is now fully supported with a 99.95-percent SLA.
November 2015
Enhancements to App Service Authentication/Authorization
The App Service Authentication/Authorization feature now supports social identity providers and headless authentication flows.
October 2015
Open Source App Service Mobile .NET Server SDK
The App Service Mobile .NET Server SDK is now open source on GitHub!
General availability: Azure Mobile Engagement
Azure Mobile Engagement enables real-time and fine-grain user segmentation, app-user analytics, and context-aware, smart-push notifications across all connected devices.
September 2015
Public preview: Performance Test Web Apps and Mobile Apps
Generate thousands of virtual users to simulate real-world traffic on Web Apps and Mobile Apps.
Updates to Azure Mobile Apps server SDK
We have released a new open-source Node.js server SDK for Azure Mobile Apps and have made improvements to our .NET server SDK.
Public preview: Microsoft Azure Active Directory B2B collaboration
Azure Active Directory B2B collaboration helps improve security while simplifying the management of partner access to resources, including SaaS apps such as Office 365, Salesforce, many Azure services, and other mobile, cloud, and on-premises claims-aware applications.
July 2015
Updated Mobile Apps Server SDK available
The latest Mobile Apps SDK works with any ASP.NET project and provides more control over how your app operates.
April 2015
Windows Universal apps SDK for Azure Mobile Engagement
The Windows Universal Apps SDK is available for the Azure Mobile Engagement service.
March 2015
Launch of Azure App Service
App Service integrates the best of Azure Websites, Mobile Services, API Management, and Azure BizTalk Services, along with new capabilities in Logic and API apps to provide you with a unified set of capabilities for everything from the billing model to the development and management experience.
Whats new with Azure App Service?
Azure Websites changes to Azure App Service Web Apps. Mobile Apps, Logic Apps and API Apps are new Azure service as part of App Service.
February 2015
Public preview: Azure Mobile Engagement
This is an SaaS-delivered, data-driven user-engagement platform that enables real-time fine-grain user segmentation, app user analytics, and contextually-aware smart-push notifications and in-app messaging across all connected devices.
October 2014
Updates to the Azure Mobile Services .NET backend
Azure Mobile Services has recently released several updates to the .NET backend including the following: custom scopes for authentication providers, single sign-on for Windows Store applications, CORS for SignalR, and support for Web API 5.2.
August 2014
General Availability: Mobile Services .NET backend
Write your services using the power of ASP.NET Web API and your favorite .NET language.
February 2014
Mobile Services support for .NET backend
Write backend Mobile Service logic by using .NET and the ASP.NET Web API framework, run Mobile Service code locally, and debug remotely.
PhoneGap support for Azure Mobile services
Develop cross-platform mobile apps with PhoneGap and Azure Mobile Services.
January 2014
Mobile Services Integration with Sencha Touch
Together with our partners at Sencha, we recently added support for SenchaTouch to Mobile Services.
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