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Private Preview: Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage
Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage and take advantage of ZRS ability to achieve an RPO of 0.
August 2023
Generally Available: Azure Monitor VM Insights using Azure Monitor Agent
VM Insights using Azure Monitor Agent provides various benefits like cost savings, simplified management experience and enhanced security & performance.
July 2022
Generally available: New KMS DNS in Azure Global Cloud
All Azure Windows VMs provisioned in Azure Global Cloud from July 2022, are activated via azkms.core.windows.net, which points to two new KMS IP addresses, 20.118.99.224 and 40.83.235.53.
November 2021
Automatic VM guest patching is now generally available
Automatic VM guest patching provides safe and automatic patching for virtual machines to simplify update management and maintain security compliance.
June 2021
Public preview: Azure Automanage now supports Arc enabled servers
Now you can automatically onboard your Arc enabled servers to best practice Azure management services using Azure Automanage, saving time and manual management effort.
April 2021
Azure Site Recovery now supports Azure Policy in public preview
Leverage Azure Policy to enable Azure Site Recovery for your VMs at scale and ensure organizational standards.
September 2020
Automatic VM guest patching is now in public preview
Automatic VM guest patching provides safe and automatic patching for virtual machines to simplify update management and maintain security compliance.
December 2019
Serial console for Azure Virual Machines now available in US Government Cloud
Serial console is now available in preview in the Azure US Government Cloud, allowing customers in the government-only clouds to access the serial console of their VMs or virtual machine scale set instances.
May 2019
Azure Virtual Machine PowerOff now available with fast shutdown
You can now quickly and forcefully power off (stop) your Azure VM with the new skipShutdown flag.
Azure Serial Console updated with VMSS support and improved language support
You may now use the Serial Console feature to troubleshoot connectivity issues in both VMs and individual VMSS instances in a variety of languages.
February 2019
Feature update: Serial console for Azure Virtual Machines
Target availability: Q1 2019
The serial console for Azure Virtual Machines has been updated to add VM reboot and additional fonts to choose from.
September 2018
General availability: Serial console for Azure VMs
Serial console for Azure VMs is generally available with new features and many bug fixes and improvements.
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