What’s Brewing ?

February 2016

Application Insights Update

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• PowerShell script available for creating Release Annotations

• For those not using VSTS, PowerShell scripts available on GitHub

• Annotations detail blade now available

• This blade provides information about the release, including the

release id, requestor, source control branch, release definition, and

environment and lot more.

Azure Security Center

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• New integrated partner solutions.

• Advanced threat detection capabilities.

• Centralized security management.

Azure IoT Hub

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• General Availability brings following rich features in addition to

public preview

• Bulk device identity import/export

• Operations monitoring and Diagnostic metric

• Native support for MQTT and AMQP over websockets

• Availability in three new regions Southeast Asia, West Europe and

West US

• VS Connected Service

• Visual Studio extension to connect to IoT in Visual Studio Gallery

• Connect to IoT Hub without leaving Visual Studio.

General Availability

Azure Logic Apps

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• Improved designer experience

• Managed API connections

• Native webhook support

Preview Refresh

Elasticsearch for Azure File storage

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• Enable you to create a pre-configured Elasticsearch cluster which

stores data on Azure File storage

• Provides you with the option of installing plugins like Sense, Marvel

and Kibana, all in just a few minutes

SQL Server AlwaysOn Cluster Template updated

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• Support for Internal Load Balancer

• Configuration of Storage and SQL Server for workload

• Option to choose SQL Server version

• Automated Patching

Red Hat Enterprise Linux now available in the Azure Marketplace

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• Customers of Red Hat and Microsoft will now be able to rapidly and

seamlessly deploy instances for on-demand workloads, dev-test, and

cloud bursting

• The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 and 7.2 images are now live in all

regions, except China and US Government

Azure Data Factory (ADF) Monitoring & Management App

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• Enables pre-canned list of views for the data factories with the Diagram

view

• Provides ability to view the data factory in terms of activity windows in

pipelines with a calendar view

• Also added Global date time filter Colum filtering, Sorting, Batch

execution, Alert notifications and Configurable layouts.

SQL Server Express images in the Azure Gallery

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• Images for SQL Server Express with Tools 2014, 2012, and 2008R2 in

the Azure Gallery.

• SQL Server Express has a limit of 1 GB of memory and 10 GB per

database. The images include the core SQL Server Engine as well as

SQL Server Management Studio.

• The SQL Server Express licensing is free, so you only need to pay for

running the virtual machine.

Log Analytics (OMS) resource for Azure VMs

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• Log Analytics (OMS) brings the power of Microsoft’s new cloud-based

management solution, Operations Management Suite, right into the Azure

portal

• Azure quickstart templates and Azure VM extensions allow you to quickly

deploy a brand new Windows or Linux VM that instantly onboards to the

OMS service.

• Operations Management Suite also has the ability to bring insights across

your other on-premises, private cloud, public cloud environments.

Azure Search indexer for Azure Blob Storage

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Public Preview

• Azure Search blob indexer lets you seamlessly extract textual content

and blob metadata from the documents in following formats.

• PDF

• Microsoft Office: DOCX/DOC, XLSX/XLS, PPTX/PPT, MSG (Outlook

emails)

• HTML, XML, ZIP, EML

• Plain text files

• Also extracts custom blob metadata and content-specific document

metadata.

Azure Premium Storage

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• Azure Premium Storage is now available in East Asia, Australia

Southeast and South Central US.

• All Regions - West US, East US, East US 2, Central US, South Central

US, West Europe, North Europe, China East, Australia East, Australia

Southeast, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Japan West and Japan East.

More Regions

Azure PaaS services and DevOps tools for Azure Stack

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• Web Apps feature in Azure App Service

• SQL and MySQL database resource providers (to support Web Apps

data tier)

• Updated Azure SDK, including PowerShell support and cross-

platform CLI support

• Native Visual Studio support for Azure Stack

Early Preview

Azure SQL Data Warehouse

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• Improvements that added stability and increased reliability for SQL

Data Warehouse.

• Loading- Fixed issues with Polybase queries and bulk load

operations

• Monitoring - fixed issue with the dynamic management view .

• Stability - fixed issue that intermittently caused increased

unavailability for data warehouse instances during upgrades,

initiated by the Azure SQL DW service team

Updates

Azure Search .NET SDK roadmap

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• Released version1.0-preview of the Azure Search .NET SDK.

Download the new SDK from NuGet,

• Upcoming releases

• General availability and Lucene query syntax (version 1.1)

• Preview feature availability (2.x-preview versions) will target

version 2015-02-28-Preview of the REST API

• Soon after 2.x-preview ships, the features included in 2.x-preview

will be made generally available in a new locked REST API

version, followed closely by what we are tentatively calling

version 2.x of the .NET SDK

Azure Government Cloud

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• Backup of your Azure IaaS VMs using Azure Backup is available on

Government cloud now.

• US public sector customers can now use ASR to protect their critical

applications running on physical and virtual infrastructure – including

Hyper-V and VMware

Updates available at http://azure.microsoft.com

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/