New Azure features and functionality for July 2020
It’s been a busy month as far as new Azure features and functionality go! Just in case you’ve missed something, we’ve collected all of the announcements from July 2020 in one place. Be sure to give this list a read through, as there’s a wealth of exciting new functions and updates to check out!
Security
- Azure Firewall Manager is now generally available
- Generally available: Azure Private Link for Azure SignalR Service
- Choose to allow or disallow blob public access on Azure Storage accounts
- Azure Security Center—News and updates for June 2020
Recovery
- Azure Site Recovery update rollup 48—July 2020
- Azure Site Recovery now supports replication with private links
IoT and Bots
- Azure IoT Device Provisioning Service VNET ingress support is now available
- Azure IoT Central UI new and updated features—June 2020
- Azure IoT Central UI and documentation updates—June 2020
Updates
- Azure Sphere update 20.07 is now available
- Updates to Azure HDInsight
- Azure API Management update—July 2020
Misc.
- Azure Data Lake Storage lifecycle management is now generally available
- Azure Data Explorer LightIngest now supports actual creation time for historical data migration
- Azure Monitor Community Repository is now available
- Remote Desktop client for Android now supports Windows Virtual Desktop connections
- Azure Data Explorer Streaming Ingestion is generally available
- Azure HDInsight now supports virtual network service endpoint policies
- Windows Virtual Desktop Azure portal and Microsoft Teams integrations are generally available
- Migrate to the new version of the Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 APIs
- A new Power BI component for React is now available
- Azure Log Analytics saved searches functionality is moving to query explorer
- SR-IOV availability on InfiniBand-equipped Virtual Machines
- Azure Data Explorer—Allocate resources automatically for Azure Blob Storage data connection
- New memory optimized and compute optimized hardware options in Azure SQL Database
- Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 is now generally available
- One- and three- year reserved capacity for Azure DB for PostgreSQL-Hyperscale (Citus)
- Data Factory SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) migration accelerators are now generally available
- Azure Monitor Logs connector is now generally available
- Shared disks in Azure Disk Storage are now available
- AKS-managed Azure Active Directory support is now generally available
- Azure Red Hat OpenShift on OpenShift 4.4 now available
- Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now ISO 27001 certified
- Data Factory connector support for Delta Lake and Excel is now available
- Azure Stream Analytics—Debug queries using job diagram in Visual Studio Code is now available
- Azure SQL Managed Instance management pack is now generally available
- State transition restriction rules for Azure Boards are now generally available
- Private endpoints for Azure File Sync are now generally available
- Create virtual machines from Azure Shared Image Gallery (SIG)
- Introducing Azure Load Balancer Insights using Azure Monitor for Networks
- Azure Machine Learning studio web experience is generally available
- Custom Commands is now generally available
- Neural Text to Speech expands to new languages
- Distributed network name for SQL Server on Virtual Machines is now available
- Form Recognizer is now generally available
- Azure Stream Analytics tools for Visual Studio Code now supports Visual Studio Codespaces
- Azure Virtual WAN: Multiple capabilities and new partners now generally available
- Virtual machine scale sets—Automatic image upgrades for custom images now available
Useful Links
- Get stuck into more Azure on Microsoft Learn
- New Azure features and functionality for June 2020
- View live and on-demand sessions on Azure and more on Microsoft Learn TV
- A look at the announcements from Microsoft Build 2020
- Catch up with Build 2020’s on-demand sessions
- How to skill up while stuck at home
- I want to skill up – but what do I learn?
