Updates Archives
Monthly updates for January 2023
Generally available: Apply Azure storage access tiers to append blobs and page blobs with blob type conversion
Target availability: Q1 2023
Convert append blobs and page blobs to block blobs so that you can apply access tiers.
Chaos studio - Public preview updates for January 2023
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Chaos Studio in January 2023.
Public preview: Incremental snapshots for Ultra Disk Storage
To ensure business continuity, incremental snapshots for Ultra Disks are now available in public preview in the Sweden Central and US West 3 Azure region.
Generally available: Indirect enterprise agreement on Azure Cost Management and Billing
Manage your enrollment hierarchy, view account usage, and monitor costs directly from the Azure Cost Management and Billing menu on the Azure portal (for indirect enterprise agreement customers)
General availability: Application security groups support for private endpoints
Application security groups (ASGs) support for private endpoints is now generally available.
General availability: Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Windows Code
Mounting Azure Storage File share as a network share in Windows code (non-container) in App Service is now generally available.
General Availability: 5 GB Put Blob
Target availability: Q4 2022
Maximum Put Blob size is now increasing to 5 GB
Public Preview: Container insights support for AKS hybrid clusters
Container insights now supports AKS hybrid clusters
Classic VM retirement: extending retirement date to September 1st 2023
Target retirement date: September 01, 2023
Extended migration period for your IaaS VMs from Azure Service Manager to Azure Resource Manager. Please complete the migration by 1 September 2023.
Public Preview: Azure App Health Extension - Rich Health States
Application Health Extension, Rich Health States allows for more detailed health reporting on your VM applications.
Public preview: Azure Database for MySQL - Logic Apps and Power Automate integration
Use the Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server connector to connect to MySQL data and build with Power Automate and Logic Apps.
Azure Machine Learning - Generally availability updates for January 2023
New features in GA include the ability to place customized tags, search for machine learning assets, isolate network for managed online endpoints, build custom metrics views, and simplify data security.
Azure Machine Learning - Public preview announcements for January 2023
New features now available in Public Preview include the ability to build an end-to-end training pipeline with no-code, recover a deleted workspace, and identify root causes of pipeline failure.
General Availability: Active Directory Connector for Arc-enabled SQL MI
Active Directory Connector (ADC) for Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance is now available to perform Active Directory authentication.
Public preview: Tribal Group events available to Azure Event Grid customers
You can now subscribe to events Tribal Group applications and automate your processes based on Tribal Group application state changes.
Generally available: Azure Active Directory authentication for SQL Server 2022
Customers with SQL Server 2022 can enable Azure Active Directory authentication, single sign-on, unify SQL Server authentication and leverage multi-factor authentication.
Public Preview of Viewing SQL Server Databases via Azure Arc
Surfaces all the active databases and their configurations for each of the Arc-enabled SQL Servers in Azure.
Public Preview: Microsoft Purview access policies for SQL Server 2022
Author policies that govern the access to Active Directory users directly from Azure to all your SQL Server 2022 data sources at scale.
Public Preview: Azure Automation Visual Studio Code Extension
Use the Azure Automation extension to perform local authoring and management of automation runbooks using VS Code
General availability: IoT Edge Metrics Collector 1.1
This refresh updates the module's dependencies and base image.
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