Azure Updates – Number 25 – December 4, 2021

A summary update on Azure News that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. I’ll provide links to all the resource updates with each item. Hopefully this will save you some time digging around to find recent releases and changes.

Updates will include preview and general availability announcements, news, and technical articles published in the listed topic areas for the previous 2 week snapshot. Presented is a subset of news that is highlighted here, visit Azure Blog or Azure Updates Blog to see all the updates.

Azure Updates

Public preview: FSLogix profiles support for Azure AD-joined VMs for Azure Virtual Desktop

Public preview: Measure product effectiveness with new user analytics experience in Application Insights

IaaS Agent extension full mode no restart for SQL VMs generally available

SQL Server IaaS Agent extension for Linux SQL VMs generally available

Public preview: Azure Monitor action rules are now ‘alert processing rules’

General availability: Audit Logs of Azure Monitor log queries

General availability: Create AKS clusters without local user accounts

General availability: AKS auto-certificate rotation

General availability: AKS node image auto-upgrade

Azure Communication Services: Short code functionality for SMS now available in public preview

General availability: New capabilities in Network Watcher Diagnostic tools to evaluate AVNM Security rules

Public preview: Azure NetApp Files application volume group for SAP HANA

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now generally available

Azure Load Testing now available in public preview

Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server: Geo-redundant backup and restore in public preview

General availability: Azure HDInsight API version updated

General availability: Data transformation at Export in Azure IoT Central

General availability: Secure Data Egress via Managed Identity in Azure IoT Central

General availability: VPN Gateway NAT

General availability: Wildcard listener on Application Gateways

Public preview refresh: Azure IoT Central REST API new and updated endpoints

Private preview: Root cause analysis, new telemetry, & alerts for SAP NetWeaver in AMS

Public preview: New SAP HANA telemetry in AMS

General availability of custom OpenID providers in App Service and Azure Functions

Azure Scheduler will be retired on 31 January 2022

In development: New planned datacenter region in Belgium (Belgium Central)

General availability: Improved legends in IoT Central Analytics charts

Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCasv5 and ECasv5-series now available

Public preview: Node.js 16 in Azure Functions

Azure Site Recovery update rollup 59 is now generally available – November 2021

Azure Blog

4 reasons to attend the Put Responsible AI into Practice Azure digital event

5 reasons Azure Databricks is best for Hadoop workloads

Azure Cost Management and Billing updates ??? November 2021

Introducing Azure Load Testing: Optimize app performance at scale

SONiC opens more opportunities for network innovation

Scaling for the future of ophthalmology with artificial intelligence powered by Azure Healthcare APIs

Advancing service resilience in Azure Active Directory with its backup authentication service

Microsoft expands cloud services with two new datacenters in Wyoming

Simplify connectivity, routing, and security with Azure Virtual WAN

Azure Sentinel Blog

MSTICPy Hackathon – January 2022

Unlock value from your incidents using advanced incident search

Investigating Suspicious Azure Activity with Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Sentinel – SAP continuous threat monitoring with UEBA entity pages

Creating your first Microsoft Sentinel Notebook