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Visual Studio App Center retirement
Target retirement date: March 31, 2025
Visual Studio App Center is scheduled for retirement on March 31, 2025.
Retirement: Support for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall v2 Configuration is ending
Target retirement date: March 15, 2027
On 15 March 2027, the Application Gateway WAF v2 Configuration will be retired. To continue using this service, switch to the Application Gateway WAF v2 Policy before the retirement date.
Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Cloud Services (classic) retiring in August 2024.
February 2024
Support for log alert rules that use cross-workspace queries with resource names or qualified name identifiers will be retired on 31 May 2024
Target retirement date: May 31, 2024
As of May 31, 2024, log alert rules will no longer support cross-workspace queries that use resource names or qualified name identifiers.
January 2024
Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Migrate your cloud services to a new deployment model before 31 August 2024.
December 2023
On 31 August 2024, both the update management feature of Azure Automation and the Log Analytics agent it uses will be retired
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
n 31 August 2024, both the update management feature of Azure Automation and the Log Analytics agent it uses will be retired
Change tracking and inventory with Log Analytics agent in Azure Automation will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
On 31 August 2024, change tracking and inventory with Log Analytics agent in Azure Automation will be retired.
Container insights recommended alerts (custom metrics) (preview) retirement moving up to 31 May 2024
Target retirement date: June 01, 2024
Transition to Prometheus recommended alert rules (preview) before 31 May 2024.
Retirement: Azure Container Apps preview API versions 2023-04-01-preview
Target retirement date: March 06, 2024
Azure Resource Manager API version 2023-04-01-preview will be retired in March 2024. Upgrade to a newer version before then.
Standard and High-Performance VPN Gateway SKUs will be retired on 30 September 2025
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
Standard and High-Performance VPN Gateway SKUs are retiring on September 30th, 2025
Pod Security Policy is being deprecated with AKS 1.25 and 2023-06-01 API version
Target retirement date: October 14, 2025
Migrate your AKS cluster from Pod Security Policy to Pod Security Admission
Azure Object Anchors Retirement
Target retirement date: May 21, 2024
Please note that Azure Object Anchors (AOA) will be retired on May 20, 2024. Object anchoring capability is generally available (GA) in Dynamics 365 Guides.
Azure Spatial Anchors Retirement
Target retirement date: November 21, 2024
Please note that Azure Spatial Anchors (ASA) will be retired on November 20, 2024.
November 2023
Extended support for .NET 6 (LTS) ends on 12 November 2024
Target retirement date: November 12, 2024
Extended support for .NET 6 (LTS) ends 12 November 2024 - upgrade your apps to .NET 8 (LTS)
Extended support for .NET 7 (STS) ends on 14 May 2024
Target retirement date: May 14, 2024
Extended support for .NET 7 (STS) ends on 14 May 2024 - upgrade your apps to .NET 8 (LTS)
Azure support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will end by 31 October 2024
Target retirement date: October 31, 2024
If you have resources that interact with Azure services and still use TLS 1.1 or earlier, transition them to TLS 1.2 or later by 31 October 2024
Game Dev VM Marketplace Application will be retired on February 1st, 2024
Target retirement date: February 01, 2024
Announcement of Azure Game Dev VM retirement
October 2023
Changes to My Groups admin controls
Target retirement date: June 30, 2024
New settings will enable admins to restrict end users from viewing and editing security groups in My Groups. The existing settings that allow enabling or disabling of My Groups will be retired in June 2024.
Default outbound access for VMs in Azure will be retired— updates and more information
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
Default outbound access connectivity for virtual machines will be retired in September 2025 -- updates and more information
Azure Functions support for Python 3.8 is ending on 14 October 2024
Upgrade Azure Functions to use Python 3.9 or above.
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