New Azure features and functionality for November 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 November 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!
General Availability
- Unified Connection Monitor in Network Watcher is now generally available
- Multiple new features for Azure VPN Gateway are now generally available
- Azure Shared Image Gallery–New features are now generally available
- Azure Site Recovery – Support for increased disk size (32 TB) in Azure VM disaster recovery is now generally available
- Performance tiers for Premium SSDs is now generally available
- HDInsight HBase Accelerated Writes with Premium Data Lake Storage Gen2 is now generally available
- General availability: VPN over ExpressRoute private peering
- Custom Translator V2 upgrade (full trainability) is generally available
- New SAP HANA Certified Memory-Optimized Virtual Machines now available
- Support for Oracle WebLogic Server on Azure Kubernetes Service is now available
- .NET 5 now available in App Service
- SQL Server Reporting Services Virtual Machine images now available
- New constrained vCPUs capable VMs now available
- New recommendations from Azure Advisor are now available
- SQL Server Analysis Services Virtual Machine images now available
- Premium tier for Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available
- Azure HDInsight ID Broker (HIB) is now generally available
- New Azure Firewall capabilities will be generally available in Q4 CY2020
- Azure Monitor Application Insights Java 3.0 is now generally available
- Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 recursive access control list (ACL) update is generally available
- PowerShell support for Server Migration with Azure Migrate is now generally available
Updates
- Azure Site Recovery update rollup 52 – November 2020
- Azure portal November 2020 update
- The Azure Cloud Shell image has been updated
- Azure Kubernetes Service updates for November 2020
- Azure IoT Central new and updated features—October 2020
- Service Fabric release 7.2 is now available
- Azure Sphere 20.10 update is now available
- Azure Security Center—News and updates for October 2020
Misc.
- Azure Databricks Achieves FedRAMP High Authorization on Microsoft Azure Government
- Azure Resource Manager template support for Azure file share backup
- More IOPS at no additional cost for Azure Files premium tier
- Azure Data Factory adds cached lookups and enhanced zoom design to data flows
- Azure Backup for SAP HANA backup – User management improvements
- New version of SSMS and ADS tools for serverless SQL pools in Azure Synapse Analytics
- Azure achieves Service Organization Controls compliance for 14 additional services
- Azure Backup—Soft delete for SQL Server and SAP HANA running in Azure VM
Useful Links
- Get stuck into more Azure on Microsoft Learn
- New Azure features and functionality for October 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?
