Microsoft Azure News - September 2024 - BAUG

Monthly Azure news roundup as compiled and delivered by Damien Berry to the Brisbane Azure User Group.

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6. Upcoming Presentations Month Presenter(s) Topic January 2024 Todd Whitehead Building your own copilot with Microsoft Copilot Studio February 2024 Jia Ji Explore Azure Integration March 2024 Bernie White Everything you need to know about Bicep in 2024 April 2024 Todd Whitehead Dan Toomey Creating Chaos in Azure Copilot for Logic Apps? May 2024 Alastair Wilkinson IaC - An Intro to Azure Networking and Terraform June 2024 Damien Berry Getting your Blazor Out the Front Door with App Service July 2024 Bernie White Running with Azure Deployment Stacks August 2024 Sebastian Gräf Dan Toomey Deploy Azure OpenAI with Azure Verified Modules INTEGRATE 2024 session September 2024 Bronwen Zande From Dormant to Dynamic: Upcycling Documents with AI October 2024 Wayne Hoggett Azure Tools You Might Not Have Heard Of November 2024 Vivek Rao Using AI & Automation for Application Assurance December 2024 Got Topic? Send message on Meetup or email [email protected]

7. retirements

8. Azure retirements 31 May 2024 Container insights recommended alerts (custom metrics) ( preview ) 31 August 2024 Change tracking and inventory with Log Analytics agent in Azure Automation 31 August 2024 Both the update management feature of Azure Automation and the Log Analytics agent https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/container-insights-recommended-alerts-custom-metrics-preview-retirement-moving-up-to-31-may-2024/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/changetrackingwithla-retirement-31august2024/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/updatemanagement-retired-31august2024/

9. updates

10. Dev Container templates for Azure SQL (GA) Available for .NET Aspire, .NET 8, Node.js, and Python Adopting dev containers offers several advantages: efficient local development, cost-efficiency, faster time-to-market, and alignment with cloud-native trends. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Dev-Containers-templates-for-Azure-SQL-Database

11. Azure SQL Hyperscale named replica - Maintenance window support (GA) By default, impactful updates to Azure SQL Database resources happen during the period 5PM to 8AM local time. Local time is determined by the location of Azure region that hosts the resource. With named replicas, you can enhance your modern application architectures by scaling out read workloads to up to 30 read replicas. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sql-blog/general-availability-maintenance-window-support-for-azure-sql/ba-p/4207651

12. MySQL Flexible Server supports Managed HSM (GA) Support for Azure Key Vault Managed HSM with customer managed keys (CMK) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Azure-Database-for-MySQL-Flexible-Server-supports-Managed-HSM

13. Azure Policy support for Azure PostgreSQL - Flexible Server (GA) Azure Policy, you can set, assign, and manage rules that apply to your Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server instances. This support makes it easier to Maintain governance Improve security Have better control over your databases. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Azure-Policy-support-for-Azure-Database-for-PostgreSQL-Flexible-Server

14. Enforce passwordless authentication with Azure Redis (GA) You can now disable access key-based authentication and use only Microsoft Entra ID managed identities and service principals. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Enforce-passwordless-authentication-with-Azure-Cache-for-Redis

15. Azure Monitor – Container Insights – High Scale mode (Preview) Achieve a higher log collection throughput from AKS clusters. When High Scale mode is enabled, Container Insights does multiple configuration changes leading to a higher overall throughput. All the changes are made in the background by the service and do not require input or configuration. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/High-Scale-mode-Container-Insights

16. Customer managed planned failover for Azure Storage (GA) Ability to failover a storage account while maintaining geo-redundancy with no data loss or additional cost. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/public-preview-customer-managed-planned-failover

17. Logic Apps Standard - Monitoring dashboards (Preview) Overview: Success rates and trends for runs, actions, and triggers. Workflows: Individual workflows status. Runs: Detailed run information from Application Insights. Compute: Monitor compute utilization. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Out-of-box-monitoring-dashboards-for-Logic-Apps-Standard

18. Azure Logic Apps Standard – Templates (Preview) Templates in Azure Logic Apps are pre-built workflow solutions https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Templates-Support-Azure-Logic-apps-Standard

19. Azure APIM Workspaces (GA) Workspaces bring a new level of autonomy to API teams, enabling them to create, manage, and publish APIs faster, more reliably, securely, and productively within an API Management service. By providing isolated administrative access Allowing the platform team to retain oversight with central monitoring https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Workspaces-in-Azure-API-Management

20. Azure API Center Visual Studio Code extension (Preview) Generate OpenAPI specification file from API code https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Azure-API-Center-Visual-Studio-Code-Extension-Pre-release Generate Markdown documentation for any API in API center

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25. Azure Blog: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/ Scott Hanselman’s Blog: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/azure-friday/ John Savill https://www.youtube.com/@NTFAQGuy Blogs

26. tonight

27. From Dormant to Dynamic: Upcycling Documents with AI Bronwen Zande In this talk you will discover practical strategies for various levels of effort, from simple to when things start to get tough, unlocking valuable information from Files through AI. Bronwen is Developer based in Brisbane Microsoft MVP and Regional Director Organiser of DDD Brisbane. The Director of Soul Solutions. WTM Ambassador. wildlife carer who loves to travel.