Azure Updates – Number 116 – July 14, 2025

A summary update on Azure News that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. Every update is linked to it’s original Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Sentinel or other blog source. Hopefully this will save you some time digging around to find recent releases and changes.

Updates 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, Sentinel Blog, or the Microsoft Security Copilot Blog to see all the updates.

This post is a couple of days behind my usual schedule, please be patient as summer activities are in full swing

Microsoft Sentinel Blog

With a slower summer amount of posts, I’ve included a few bonus ‘back in time’ posts for Sentinel Blog this week:

Planning your move to Microsoft Defender portal for all Microsoft Sentinel customers

Introducing Summary Rules Templates: Streamlining Data Aggregation in Microsoft Sentinel

Manage cases from across tenants in one place

Microsoft Sentinel: Repositories, the Future of Content-as-Code & Best Practices?

Case Management: Incidents, Cases, and When to Use Them

Exciting Announcements: New Data Connectors Released Using the Codeless Connector Framework

Automating Microsoft Sentinel: Part 2: Automate the mundane away

AI-Powered MITRE ATT&CK Tagging for SOC Optimization

Azure Updates

[Launched] Generally Available: Migrate Azure VM backups from standard to enhanced policy

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Automation supports PowerShell 7.4 & Python 3.10 runbooks and Runtime environment

[Launched] Generally Available: Granular Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Azure File Sync

[In development] Private Preview: Enable Trusted launch on existing Virtual machine Flex scale set

[Launched] Generally Available: Enable Trusted launch on existing Virtual machine Uniform scale set

[In preview] Public Preview: Trusted launch default for new Gen2 VMs & Scale sets

[Launched] Generally Available: Customer controlled maintenance for Azure Firewall

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Storage Mover adds free, direct AWS S3-to-Azure Blob migration

[Launched] Generally Available: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure DNS security policy

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for early-July 2025

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for early-July 2025

Retirement: VM Insights Map and Dependency Agent are being on June 30, 2028

[Launched] Generally Available: FQDN Filtering in DNAT rules in Azure Firewall

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub 25R1

[Launched] Generally Available: Encryption in Transit (EiT) for Azure Files NFS shares

[Launched] Generally Available: Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics

[In preview] Generally Available: Two-Way Forest Trusts for Microsoft Entra Domain Services

Microsoft Security Copilot Blog

Using parameterized functions with KQL-based custom plugins in Microsoft Security Copilot

Automating Phishing Email Triage with Microsoft Security Copilot

Busting myths on Microsoft Security Copilot