Changes Microsoft announces – page 180

New and changed items from the Microsoft 365 roadmap and Azure Updates.

ChangeListStatusKey dateMicrosoft updatedVersions
Azure Cosmos DB—Limit of 25 collections per databaseAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20201
Azure Cosmos DB—Save up to 33 percent on multi-master accountsAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20201
Web Application Firewall with Azure Front Door service now supports exclusion listsAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20201
Generally Available: Vulnerability scanning for images in Azure Container Registry is now generally availableAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20201
Azure Security Center supports integration with Azure Monitor alertsAzure Updates–March 20201
Azure Cosmos DB free tier is now availableAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20201
Improved resource governance for Azure Analysis ServicesAzure Updates–March 20201
Azure Site Recovery mobility service automated deployment using JetPatchAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20201
Azure IoT Python SDK v2—New improvements are now availableAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20201
Automatic instance repairs for Azure virtual machine scale sets now in previewAzure UpdatesIn previewMarch 20201
NDv2-Series VMs are now Generally AvailableAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20201
NVv4-Series VMs are now Generally AvailableAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20201
Azure Database for PostgreSQL—Planned maintenance notifications now in previewAzure Updates–March 20201
Azure Database for MySQL—Planned maintenance notification now in previewAzure UpdatesIn previewMarch 20201
Azure Database for MariaDB—Planned maintenance notifications now in previewAzure UpdatesIn previewMarch 20201
Backup Reports is now in previewAzure UpdatesIn previewMarch 20201
Azure DevTest Labs—Security alerts for lab environmentsAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20201
Updates to Azure HDInsightAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20201
New features in Azure Cosmos DB Jupyter notebooks are now in previewAzure UpdatesIn previewMarch 20201
Virtual machine scale sets now simpler to manageAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20201
PowerShell 7.0 is now generally availableAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20201
Data Factory adds Flatten transformation, single-row lookups, and updated UI for container activitiesAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20201
Active Directory for authentication on SMB access to Azure File in previewAzure UpdatesIn previewMarch 20201
Service Management REST APIs and support will be retired on November 1, 2021Azure Updates–
Retirement
1 November 20211
Migrate your IaaS resources to Azure Resource Manager by March 1, 2023Azure Updates–
Retirement
1 March 20231
Azure Site Recovery data encryption feature will be retired April 30, 2022Azure Updates–
Retirement
30 April 20221
We are retiring Azure AD Domain Services classic VNET support on March 1, 2023Azure Updates–
Retirement
1 March 20231
Azure Load Balancer TCP resets on idle timeout is now availableAzure UpdatesLaunchedFebruary 20201
Azure Virtual Network service endpoint policies feature is now availableAzure UpdatesLaunchedFebruary 20201
We’re retiring some Azure Site Recovery support options on March 1, 2023Azure Updates–
Retirement
1 March 20231
(updated) Azure StorSimple 8000/1200 series will no longer be supported starting December 31, 2022Azure Updates–
Retirement
31 December 20221
Preview a fully parsed YAML document without running the pipelineAzure UpdatesLaunchedFebruary 20201
A8 – A11 Azure Virtual Machine sizes will be retired on March 1, 2021Azure Updates–
Retirement
1 March 20211
Kubernetes on Azure Stack Hub in GAAzure UpdatesLaunchedFebruary 20201
Virtual machines NVv4 series meter name changesAzure Updates–February 20201
Public IP prefix static IP addresses meter ID changesAzure Updates–February 20201
Cognitive Services Bing Speech API is being retired November 1, 2021Azure Updates–
Retirement
1 November 20211
We are retiring Azure Media Analytics preview processors on June 1, 2020Azure Updates–
Retirement
1 June 20201
Azure Cognitive Services Computer Vision Read API v3.0 now in previewAzure Updates–February 20201
Fileless attack detection for Linux is now in previewAzure UpdatesIn previewFebruary 20201
Azure Security Center for IoT real-time operating system supportAzure UpdatesIn previewFebruary 20201
A secure foundation for IoT, Azure Sphere now generally availableAzure UpdatesLaunchedFebruary 20201
Azure Monitor Log Analytics now has new, upgraded visualizationsAzure UpdatesLaunchedFebruary 20201
Azure API Management update—February 2020Azure UpdatesLaunchedFebruary 20201
Drill into the costs for your resourcesAzure UpdatesLaunchedFebruary 20201
Azure Sphere update 20.01 is now availableAzure UpdatesLaunchedFebruary 20201
Azure Bastion is now available in 20 new regionsAzure UpdatesLaunchedFebruary 20201
Unified network monitoring with connection monitor now in previewAzure UpdatesIn previewFebruary 20201
Azure Backup offline-backup with Azure Data BoxAzure UpdatesIn previewFebruary 20201
Azure Firewall Spring 2020 updatesAzure UpdatesIn previewFebruary 20201

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