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September update for Web Apps and App Service Environments

This blog post is a bit overdue, but we are making up with shipped features and improvements.

This blog post is a bit overdue, but we are making up for that with shipped features and improvements.

Support for .Net framework 4.6

You can now configure your apps to use .Net framework 4.6.

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Process Explorer

Process Explorer got some reliability fixes as well as a facelift to include process icons making it easier to differentiate between the website process, site extensions, web jobs and kudu processes.

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Authentication/Authorization

We made some improvements to better handle large directories, making the UI a lot more responsive.

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New CI provider: OneDrive

You can now setup a OneDrive folder for continuous deployments.

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App Service Plan essentials

App Service Plan essentials now provides app counts across Web/Mobile and slots. Browse also includes all types in a unified list.

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Tools menu

We included Events and Alerts in the tools menu.

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App Service Environment updates

New ASE Create experience

We took all the learnings from the re-vamp of the Web App create experience and applied them to App Service Environment creates. The result is a much more streamlined experience, eliminating all “locking” and requiring minimal inputs.

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ASE Autoscale support

You can now do metrics and schedule based auto-scale on App Service Environment Worker Pools and Front Ends.

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Full resource blades for Worker Pools and Front Ends

Front Ends and Worker Pools can now be managed as individual resources.

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IP addresses management experience

New App Service Environment IP management experience to scale IP addresses and consume them in apps hosted in an App Service Environment.

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Alert support for all App Service Environment resource types

You can now setup metrics-based alerts on App Service Environments, Worker Pools and Front Ends, to receive email notifications or trigger the new web hooks functionality.

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ClearDB cluster support

We also delivered the new Hi-Performance MySQL SKU for ClearDB. This includes support for mission critical databases as well as a refined create experience based on our learning from the Web App create experience re-vamp.

Read the ClearDB MySQL Premium tiers announcement here.

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