Azure Updates
- Retirement: Information regarding the end of support for the "Microsoft Translator [DEPRECATED]" connector
- Retirement: Open Service Mesh extension for Arc-enabled Kubernetes will be retired on September 30, 2027
- Retirement: Azure Maps Spatial APIs V1 & 2022-08-01 will be retired on September 30th, 2025.
- Public Preview: Azure Functions .NET 9 support in Linux plans
- Retirement: Deprecation of Virtual Network Injection for Azure Data Explorer
- Public Preview: Introducing Reporting and Microsoft Entra ID Authentication for Microsoft Playwright Testing
- Public Preview: Virtual machines node pools support in AKS
- Retirement: Open Service Mesh add-on for AKS will be retired on September 30, 2027
- Generally Available: Long-term support for version 1.27 and 1.30 in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Retirement: AKS GPU image (preview) will retire on Jan 10, 2025
- Generally Available: FIPS mutability support in AKS
- Generally Available: Extended support: PHP 8.1 on App Service
- Retirement: Extended support for Python 3.9 ends October 2025 - upgrade your apps to Python 3.10
- Retirement: Extended support for PHP 8.2 ends December 31st, 2026 - upgrade apps to PHP 8.3
- Retirement: Azure Machine Learning data drift detection will retire on September 1st, 2025
- Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB dynamic scaling-per region and per partition autoscale
- Generally Available: Azure confidential VMs with NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs
- Public Preview: New FX series VMs - FXmsv2 and FXmdsv2
- Retirement: Azure Load Balancer Inbound NAT rule V1 for Azure VMs and Azure VMSS will be retired
- Retirement: Azure Front Door support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will end by 1 Dec 2024
- Retirement: Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) will be retired on 30 September 2027
- Retirement: Azure Application Gateway support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will end by 31 August 2025
- Generally Available: gRPC and frontend mTLS now available for Application Gateway for Containers
- Retirement: Intent Recognition an Azure AI Speech feature will be retired on September 30th, 2025
- Retirement: SQL Data Sync will be retired on September 30th, 2027
- Retirement: Network security group flow logs in Azure Network Watcher will be retired
- Retirement: Azure AI Speaker Recognition
- Retirement: Retirement of Classic Alerts for Azure Site Recovery
- Retirement: Conversation Transcription Multi Channel Diarization
- Retirement: VpnGw1-5 (Non-AZ SKUs) will be retired on Sep 30, 2026 - gateways will be automatically migrated to AZ SKUs
- Retirement: Transition from Helm Repositories to OCI Artifacts for Storing Helm Charts
- Retirement: Azure Automanage Best Practices Retirement. Migrate to Azure Policy
- Generally Available: V5 reservations for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
- Generally Available: Smaller Enterprise tier cache instance for Azure Cache for Redis
- Generally Available: Online migration from Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Single Server to Flexible Server
- Generally Available: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
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- Microsoft Cost Management updates—August 2024 (summary)
- What’s new in FinOps toolkit 0.5 – August 2024
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- Unmasking DNS Timeouts: The Hidden Culprit in Azure Virtual Networks
- Comprehensive Nvidia GPU Monitoring for Azure N-Series VMs Using Telegraf with Azure Monitor
- Cloudcloak
- Understanding the KubeConfig File: Insights from Building KubeTidy
- Azure Update – 27th September 2024
- Integrating Defender EASM with Microsoft Sentinel Guide
- User the Power Platform to control Azure DevOps Pull Requests
- Cloud Design Patterns
- Microsoft is headed to VMware Explore 2024 in Barcelona!
- Storm-0501: Ransomware attacks expanding to hybrid cloud environments
- Cloud Native Weekly – Cert Manager Part 2: Ready.. Set… Production!
- My Experience with Technically Stable’s Custom and Pre-Designed Desk Mats
- Azure AD B2C: Single Tenant to Serve Multiple Environments using Custom Policies
- Passkey Provider AAGUIDs PowerShell Module
- Announcing the General Availability of Azure CycleCloud Workspace for Slurm
- Announcing Public Preview of Windows Server Hotpatch enabled by Azure Arc
- Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms
- It’s fantastic to be in Colombia meeting with change-makers like Pablo Arbeláez of the Universidad de Los Andes, who, along with colleagues, is showing us how AI can be a powerful tool to protect the biodiversity of the Amazon.
- Azure OpenAI Service – Streaming ChatCompletions and Token Consumption Tracking
- Activate your data responsibly in the era of AI with Microsoft Purview
- What is Phishing Resistant Authentication
- 257 – On productivity
- Fix: Visual Studio 2022 Git Commit button grayed out
- Fix: Visual Studio 2022 message – Git failed with a fatal error – Permission denied
- Customizing the combo of Azure Developer CLI and .NET Aspire
- It was great to meet with innovators at Tecnológico de Monterrey today, who are building on the university’s legacy by pioneering the use of AI for both students and teachers in the classroom—and beyond.
- It’s great to be back in Mexico City, where the new investments we’re making in AI infrastructure and skilling will help ensure people and organizations across Mexico realize the benefits of this technology shift.
- Resetting SMS MFA with Entra External ID
- Microsoft expands its Global Engineering Development Center’s footprint to the UAE’s capital, Abu Dhabi
- Serverless vs. Just-in-Time Compute: Are They the Same?
- General Availability: Azure confidential VMs with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs
- Azure AI Confidential Inferencing: Technical Deep-Dive
- Using Terraform for Geo-Restore in Azure PostgreSQL
- Dapr v1.14.4 now available in the Dapr extension for AKS and Arc-enabled Kubernetes
- How to intercept the “run as administrator” event
- Connecting Azure AD B2C to Kinde via OIDC
- Azure Container Registry More Than Just an Image Store
- Securing our future: September 2024 progress update on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI)
- Quick Fix: Resolving the ‘subscription_id is a required provider property’ Error in Terraform
- Enterprise business intelligence
- Optimize inventory and forecast demand with Power Platform and Azure
- Line-of-business application using Azure App Service Environment v3
- Azure Monitor Logs Update
- How to Create an xPath Filter for a Data Collection Rule
- Building RAG on Phi-3 locally using embeddings on VS Code AI Toolkit
