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RSS feedDecember 2020
Deprecation of webview sign-in support announcement from Google
Target retirement date: January 04, 2021
Google is deprecating webview support starting January 4, 2021.
October 2020
Action Required: Migrate to Data Science Virtual Machine Ubuntu 18.04
Target retirement date: April 01, 2021
End of Support for Data Science Virtual Machine for Ubuntu 16.04 on 1 April 2021.
Bing Search APIs will transition from Azure Cognitive Services to Azure Marketplace on 31 October 2023
Target retirement date: October 31, 2023
Continue to create new instances of Bing Search APIs under the Azure Marketplace.
We’re retiring Azure SQL DB Import-Export Direct Endpoints on 31 October 2023
Target retirement date: October 31, 2023
Start using Azure Resource Manager REST APIs.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift 3.11 will be retired on 30 June 2022
Target retirement date: June 30, 2022
Start using Azure Red Hat OpenShift on OpenShift 4.
Community support for PHP 7.4 is ending on 28 November 2022
Target retirement date: November 28, 2022
App Service support for PHP 7.4 on Windows is ending on 28 November 2022.
Legacy developer portal in Azure API Management will retire on 31 October 2023
Target retirement date: October 31, 2023
Start using the new developer portal in Azure API Management.
Action Required: Update to Data Science Virtual Machine Ubuntu 18.04
Target retirement date: October 31, 2023
Migrate to Data Science Virtual Machine – Ubuntu 18.04 Image.
Azure Dev Spaces is retiring on 31 October 2023
Start using Bridge to Kubernetes in Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio Code
September 2020
Begin migrating your codespaces to GitHub Codespaces
Target retirement date: February 17, 2021
To simplify our user experience, Visual Studio Codespaces is transitioning to GitHub Codespaces, and the current Azure service will retire on 17 February 2021.
Azure API Management will retire 5 legacy metrics in Azure Monitor on 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Start using the new Requests metric in Azure Monitor.
Azure S8 and S9 Analysis Services SKUs retiring on 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Migrate to S8V2 or S9V2 SKUs
Azure Storage classic metrics will be retired on 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Transition to using metrics in Azure Monitor
Migrate your Azure Data Factory version 1 to 2 service
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
We’re retiring Azure Data Factory version 1 service on 31 August 2023
View Designer in Azure Monitor is retiring on 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Start using Azure Monitor Workbooks for rich visual reports
Update your Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDKs by 31 August 2022
Target retirement date: August 31, 2022
We’ll be retiring version 1.x of the Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK and the .NET Core SDK.
Start using Power BI Embedded to access, share and distribute content easily
Target retirement date: August 31, 2021
We’re retiring Power BI Workspace Collection on 31 August 2021.
August 2020
Update your Traffic Analytics queries by 31 August 2022
Target retirement date: August 31, 2022
Update Traffic Analytics log schema to use new fields in queries
Version 2 of Translator is retiring on 24 May 2021
Target retirement date: May 24, 2021
Migrate to version 3 of Translator
Update your Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK by 31 August 2022
Target retirement date: August 31, 2022
We’ll be retiring version 1.x and 2.x of the Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK
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