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April 2021

Apr 14

Azure IoT Edge nesting capabilities are now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Our commitment is to simplify IoT for mainstream adoption. As such, we are announcing general availability of nesting capabilities for Azure IoT Edge for industrials to connect their equipment to the cloud through multiple network layers as recommended by the ANSI/ISA-95 standard.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Features
Apr 12

Azure IoT Edge 1.2.0 release is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure IoT Edge 1.2.0 enables Azure Device Update for IoT Hub and IoT Edge devices in a nested configuration.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Open Source
  • Features

March 2021

Mar 16

Azure IoT Central new and updated features—February 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

February updates include device model, API, dashboard, and documentation improvements.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features

February 2021

Feb 16

Azure IoT Edge 1.1.0 release is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure IoT Edge 1.1.0 is our first long term servicing (LTS) release.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Open Source
  • Services
  • Features

November 2020

Nov 12

Azure IoT Central new and updated features—October 2020

NOW AVAILABLE

October updates job scheduling, enhanced IoT Edge support, dashboard improvements, and documentation updates.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features

October 2020

Oct 13

Azure IoT Edge 1.0.10 release is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure IoT Edge 1.0.10 release is available with support for diagnostic metrics, message priorities, module startup order, and arrays in twins.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Open Source
  • Services
  • Features

September 2020

Sep 22

New IoT Event Learning Path

NOW AVAILABLE

A new Event Learning Path is now available for solution architects, business decision makers, and developers interested in IoT Solutions with Azure IoT Services.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Azure IoT Central
  • Azure Sphere
  • Windows 10 IoT Core Services
  • Azure Digital Twins
  • Azure RTOS
  • Features
Sep 22

Announcing the unified Azure Certified Device program

NOW AVAILABLE

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 Hub
  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Azure IoT Central
  • Azure Sphere
  • Azure Digital Twins
  • Azure RTOS
  • Services
Sep 22

IoT Security updates for September 2020

NOW AVAILABLE

New Azure IoT Security product updates include improvements around monitoring, edge nesting and the availability of Azure Defender for IoT.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Security
Sep 22

Announcing Azure SQL Edge now in general availability

NOW AVAILABLE

You can reduce cost, drive innovation, and improve operational efficiencies by using Azure SQL Edge to stream, store, and analyze IoT data.

  • Azure SQL Edge
  • Services
  • Features

August 2020

Aug 19

New Azure IoT Central App Template - Video Analytics is now available

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.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Services

July 2020

Jul 15

Azure IoT Central UI new and updated features—June 2020

NOW AVAILABLE

June 2020 feature updates for Azure IoT Central are now available.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features
Jul 15

Azure IoT Central UI and documentation updates—June 2020

NOW AVAILABLE

June 2020 UI and documentation updates for Azure IoT Central are now available.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features

May 2020

May 19

Azure IoT Central - Build 2020 announcements

NOW AVAILABLE

New Azure IoT Central features, including new template and support for Azure Sphere and Azure IoT Edge, are now available.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features
May 19

Azure Real-Time Operating System

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Real-Time Operating System, which helps make IoT development even easier to help you get to market faster, is now generally available.

  • Azure RTOS
  • Features

April 2020

Apr 28

Azure IoT Central—March 2020 updates

NOW AVAILABLE

March 2020 feature updates in Azure IoT Central

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features

March 2020

Mar 18

Azure IoT Edge 1.0.9 release is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure IoT Edge 1.0.9 release is available with support for x.509 certs and the 'iotedge support-bundle' command.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Services
  • Features

November 2019

Nov 22

The latest Azure IoT Edge release is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

The latest version of Azure IoT Edge includes the following improvements. See the full release notes on the GitHub release page.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Security
Nov 19

IoT Hub new features now available for device and module twins

NOW AVAILABLE

Announcing several feature improvements for Azure IoT Hub device and module twins, namely the support for deep property nesting, and increases to the twin document max size and key/value lengths.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Services
Nov 11

Azure Stream Analytics—C# custom deserializers in Cloud and IoT edge

NOW AVAILABLE

Take advantage of the power of Stream Analytics to process data in Protobuf, XML, or any custom format.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Features

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