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Transition to Azure AD to query data from Azure Monitor application insights by 31 March 2026
Target retirement date: March 31, 2026
API keys for querying data from Azure Monitor application insights will be retired on 31 March 2026
Switch to Azure AD authentication for application insights by 30 September 2025
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
API keys used to stream live metrics telemetry into application insights will be retired on 30 September 2025.
We're retiring Speech-to-text REST preview API v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023
Target retirement date: May 12, 2023
We recently made the Speech-to-text REST API version 3.1 generally available. With this release, we'll retire the preview version v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023.
Retirement of SQL Server Native Client (SNAC) OLE DB provider for linked servers in Azure SQL Managed Instance
Target retirement date: June 01, 2023
All existing linked server objects configured to use SQLNCLI will automatically switch to using the fully compatible third (current) generation of provider – known as Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server or MSOLEDBSQL.
April 2023
Application Gateway V1 will be retired on 28 April 2026– Transition to Application Gateway V2
Target retirement date: April 28, 2026
Application Gateway V1 will be retired on 28 April 2026
Support has ended for Gen 4 hardware on Azure SQL Database
Target retirement date: March 31, 2023
Gen 4 hardware on Azure SQL Database is no longer supported, effective March 31, 2023. Databases may remain on Gen 4 configurations, albeit with limitations.
Cognitive Services Custom Commands feature is being retired on April 30, 2026
Target retirement date: April 30, 2026
Custom Commands voice commanding solution will be retired on 30 April 2026.
App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Migrate to App Service Environment v3 by 31 August 2024.
Retirement notice: transition to the Authentication methods policy for Azure Active Directory
Target retirement date: September 30, 2024
The ability to manage authentication methods in the legacy MFA and SSPR policies will be retired on 30 September 2024.
March 2023
Action recommended: Implement disaster recovery strategies for your Azure App Service web apps by 31 March 2025
Target retirement date: March 31, 2025
We'll no longer place apps in disaster recovery mode in the event of a regional disaster.
The “managed” IoT Edge solution on Azure stack Edge will be retired on March 31, 2024. Transition your IoT Edge workloads to an IoT Edge solution running on a Linux VM on Azure Stack Edge.
Target retirement date: March 31, 2024
The “managed” IoT Edge solution on Azure Stack Edge will be retired on 31 March 2024
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Single Server will be retired—migrate to Flexible Server by 28 March 2025
Target retirement date: March 30, 2023
On 28 March 2025, Azure Database for PostgreSQL Single Server will be retired, and you'll need to migrate to Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server by that date.
Action Required: Transition to DCR-based KQL transformations by 31 March 2026
Target retirement date: March 31, 2026
Custom fields feature will be retired on 31 March 2026
Azure CDN will be retiring Azure CDN Standard from Akamai on 31 October 2023 – transition to another CDN profile to avoid service interruption
Target retirement date: November 01, 2023
Azure CDN Standard from Akamai is being retired and services will end on 31 October 2023
SQL Server connector’s V1 actions and triggers will be retired on 31 March 2024 – transition to SQL Server connector’s V2 actions and triggers
Target retirement date: March 31, 2024
SQL Server connector’s V1 actions and triggers will be retired on 31 March 2024
Retirement notice: Migrate from Public Peering by March 31, 2024
Target retirement date: April 01, 2024
ExpressRoute Public Peering will be retired on March 31, 2024.
Classic experience to protect VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery will be retired on 30 March 2026
Target retirement date: March 30, 2026
Azure Site Recovery’s classic experience to protect VMware VMs will be retired on 30 March 2026
Transition to built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Recovery Services vaults in Azure Backup by 31 March 2026
Target retirement date: March 31, 2026
Classic alerts for Azure Backup will be retired on 31 March, 2026
Docker container runtime retirement for Windows node pools effective May 1, 2023
Migrate to containers before May 1, 2023
Batch custom image pools using VHD or managed images will be retired on 31 March 2026
Target retirement date: April 01, 2026
Transition custom image pools use images from Azure Compute Gallery
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