Azure Update, September

Kanio Dimitrov

API Management• Public roadmap here

• Request log access

• XSL Transform Policy

• Developer Tier restrictions removed• Unlimited user accounts• VNET Support

API Management

•Mock responses with return-response policy

• Retry policy – executes enclosed policies until retry condition is met• Fixed, linear and exponential algorithms are supported

• Dynamically specify partition keys in Log to Event Hub policy

DevTest Labs – Auto-shutdown notifications

• Sent to lab users 15 minutes before auto-shutdown

• Save the work before shutdown

• Links to skip the shutdown

• Sent through webhook endpoints

Service Fabric• Load metrics per node in Service Fabric Explorer

• Actor constructor dependency injection for Service Fabric platform dependencies

• Preview ReliableConcurrentQueue:• Strict ordering not required•Multiple concurrent consumers and producers

• 1-Node local cluster for faster debugging

Azure AD Application Proxy• Improved exception

handling for network glitches

• Connector telemetry for bootstrap operations

• Updated Azure Service Bus relay infrastructure to improve connectivity success

Mobile Apps

• Apple requires IPv6-only networking as part of submission process

• Support for IPv6

• Support for Apple submission process

Event Hubs

• Archiving directly to Azure Blob Storage account • Time or size interval supported • Simplified architecture• Completely managed experience

• Azure Portal Management Experience available• Namespaces unique to corresponding service• Current namespaces - mixed

Azure Batch

• Batch pool support for Linux VMs and VM scale sets

• Linux Message Passing Interface support

• Task application packages

Azure Batch• Virtual networks support for Windows VMs

• Job Auto-completion

• Persisted job and task output to Azure Storage

• Azure Portal Updates

Azure SQL Advisor

• Index-tuning recommendations

• Reduced time – from week to a day

• Automated tuning mode – automatically applied recommendations

Azure PowerShell 1.7

• Fixing breaking changes for the following Storage cmdlets:• Get-AzureRmStorageAccountKey: Accessing keys•New-AzureRmStorageAccountKey: Accessing keys•New-AzureRmStorageAccount: Specifying account type • Get-AzureRmStorageAccount: Specifying account type • Set-AzureRmStorageAccount: Specifying account type

Microsoft Operations Management Suite• Adding Docker monitoring capabilities

• Centralize monitoring• Container inventory• Performance data• Logs

• Simplified view of container usage and diagnoses issues• Covers cloud and on-premise• Search, custom reports and alerts