Azure Weekly Update
Date: 16 February 2023
Availability: Available
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 66 - February 2023
This update provides the following improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components.
Mobility Service – Added Linux support for:
· Azure to Azure - Ubuntu 22.04, RHEL 8.7, and Cent OS 8.7
· Modernized VMware/Physical to Azure - Ubuntu 22.04, RHEL 8.7, and Cent OS 8.7
· Classic VMware/Physical to Azure - RHEL 8.7 and Cent OS 8.7
Azure Backup: Enhanced experience for creating and managing private endpoints for Recovery Services vaults is now available
Azure Backup allows you to use private endpoints to perform backups and restores securely using private IPs from your virtual networks. Backup has now introduced several enhancements that will provide a simpler and an improved experience for creation and use of private endpoints for backing up data to Recovery Services vaults. Following key improvements have been made as part of this upgrade:
· Ability to create private endpoints without managed identities
· Use fewer private IPs per vault
· No separate private endpoints are now required to be created for blob and queue services
Date: 21 February 2023
Availability: Available
General availability: Azure Data Explorer Dashboards
We are thrilled to announce the much-anticipated General Availability of ADX Dashboards!
ADX Dashboards provide the ability to create various types of data visualizations in one place and in an easy-to-digest form. Dashboards can be shared broadly and allow multiple stakeholders to view dynamic, real time, fresh data while easily interacting with it to gain desired insights. With ADX Dashboards, you can build a dashboard, share it with others, and empower them to continue their data exploration journey.
ADX Dashboards which are part of the Azure Data Explorer web UI, have a user-friendly interface, allowing users to quickly explore and analyze their data without needing extensive technical knowledge. They offer a range of customization options and are designed to handle big data. When workign with ADX Dashboards users also gain:
· Optimized dashboard rendering performance, built for large data sets and complex queries.
· Easy creation of Dashboards based on KQL queries written in the ADX web UI.
· Native query exploration in ADX web UI from Dashboards.
With this milestone, ADX Dashboards are now available in all Azure clouds. Our team is committed to continue investing in this product to deliver the best dashboarding experience for our customers.
Now Available: Azure Monitor Query client module for Go
We’re announcing the initial stable release of the Azure Monitor Query client module for Go.
This new, idiomatic module joins the Azure Monitor Query SDK, which is comprised of client libraries for .NET, Java, JavaScript, and Python. The module allows developers to build apps that execute read-only queries in Azure Monitor's Logs and Metrics platforms. Apps can then analyze and display logs and metrics data in custom ways.
General availability: Azure IoT Edge supports Ubuntu 22.04
Azure IoT Edge's set of Tier 1 operating systems has been expanded to include Ubuntu Server 22.04 on AMD64 and ARM64. Official installation packages targeting AMD64 and ARM64 for the latest IoT Edge releases (1.4.9) are now available from Microsoft's package repository.
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Date: 22 February 2023
Availability: Available
General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.02
Azure Sphere OS version 23.02 is now available in the Retail feed. This release includes bug fixes in the Azure Sphere OS only; it does not include an updated SDK. If your devices are connected to the internet, they will receive the updated OS from the cloud.
Fixed bugs and common vulnerabilities in the 23.02 release
The 23.02 release includes updates to mitigate against the following Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs):
CVE-2022-37434 zlib
CVE-2018-25032 zlib
The 23.02 release also includes bug fixes for the following behaviors:
Wiznet W5500 data dropouts when connected with a 100BaseTX connection are addressed, and overall performance has increased by up to 2x.
An AF_UNSPEC behavior change when using mDNS introduced in the 22.11 OS has been reverted.
New and updated samples, code snippets, and Gallery projects
The 23.02 release of the Azure Sphere samples, code snippets, and Gallery projects includes the following changes:
Unicast DNS Service Discovery Gallery project
The Unicast DNS service discovery gallery project demonstrates how to perform DNS service discovery by sending DNS-SD queries to a configured DNS server. Unlike multicast service discovery, this mechanism can be used to dynamically open access to not only local, but also remote endpoints in the device firewall at runtime.
GA: Create disks from CMK-encrypted snapshots across subscriptions and in the same tenant
We are making customer-managed keys (CMK) more flexible to use with managed disks. Azure already supports copying snapshots and disks across subscriptions. We are now extending this functionality to include CMK encrypted snapshots and disks. It will now be possible to create a disk in another subscription and in the same tenant while creating from a source snapshot or disk encrypted with CMK.
This new capability can be used to create disks to refresh a dev environment from CMK-encrypted snapshots of a production disk in another subscription. You can also use this functionality to create VM’s from CMK encrypted golden images stored in another subscription and in the same tenant.
Date: 23 February 2023
Availability: Available
General availability: Stream Analytics no-code editor updates in Feb 2023
The Stream Analytics no-code editor enables you to develop a Stream Analytics job without writing a single line of code. You can quickly develop jobs to handle a variety of scenarios in just a few minutes. This month, a few new capabilities have been released, including: the Power BI output support, and the data preview improvement.
The Power BI output feature in no-code editor allows you to create the real-time dashboard in Power BI without requiring a separate database for caching the data produced from Stream Analytics jobs. It simplifies the creation process and reduces the cost.
Generally Available: Larger SKUs for App Service Environment v3
Enterprises are now able to operate more securely with large SKUs to support more demanding workloads with App Service Environment v3. New Isolated v2 SKUs of 64GB/ 128GB/ 256GB provide compelling value to organizations that need a dedicated tenant to run their most sensitive and demanding applications. The SKUs are available today.
Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Qatar Central
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in Qatar Central region.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides highly available, fully managed OpenShift clusters on demand, and is monitored and operated jointly by Microsoft and Red Hat.