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March 2024

Mar 21

Private Preview: Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage

IN DEVELOPMENT

Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage and take advantage of ZRS ability to achieve an RPO of 0.

  • Managed Disks
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Virtual Machines
  • Windows Virtual Machines
  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Features

August 2023

Aug 31

Generally Available: Azure Monitor VM Insights using Azure Monitor Agent

NOW AVAILABLE

VM Insights using Azure Monitor Agent provides various benefits like cost savings, simplified management experience and enhanced security & performance.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Windows Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Services
  • Features

July 2022

Jul 25

Generally available: New KMS DNS in Azure Global Cloud

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Windows Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Operating System

November 2021

Nov 2

Automatic VM guest patching is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Automatic VM guest patching provides safe and automatic patching for virtual machines to simplify update management and maintain security compliance.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Windows Virtual Machines
  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Security
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

June 2021

Jun 29

Public preview: Azure Automanage now supports Arc enabled servers

IN PREVIEW

Now you can automatically onboard your Arc enabled servers to best practice Azure management services using Azure Automanage, saving time and manual management effort.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Windows Virtual Machines
  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features

April 2021

Apr 29

Azure Site Recovery now supports Azure Policy in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Leverage Azure Policy to enable Azure Site Recovery for your VMs at scale and ensure organizational standards.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Azure Policy
  • Virtual Machines
  • Windows Virtual Machines
  • Management
  • Features

September 2020

Sep 9

Automatic VM guest patching is now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Automatic VM guest patching provides safe and automatic patching for virtual machines to simplify update management and maintain security compliance.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Windows Virtual Machines
  • Security
  • Features

December 2019

Dec 17

Serial console for Azure Virual Machines now available in US Government Cloud

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Windows Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Management
  • Operating System
  • Features
  • Open Source

May 2019

May 13

Azure Virtual Machine PowerOff now available with fast shutdown

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now quickly and forcefully power off (stop) your Azure VM with the new skipShutdown flag.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Windows Virtual Machines
  • SDK and Tools
May 6

Azure Serial Console updated with VMSS support and improved language support

NOW AVAILABLE

You may now use the Serial Console feature to troubleshoot connectivity issues in both VMs and individual VMSS instances in a variety of languages.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Windows Virtual Machines
  • Open Source

February 2019

Feb 11

Feature update: Serial console for Azure Virtual Machines

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2019

The serial console for Azure Virtual Machines has been updated to add VM reboot and additional fonts to choose from.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Windows Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Management
  • Operating System
  • Features
  • Open Source

September 2018

Sep 17

General availability: Serial console for Azure VMs

NOW AVAILABLE

Serial console for Azure VMs is generally available with new features and many bug fixes and improvements.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Windows Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Operating System
  • Features
  • Open Source

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