Microsoft Azure Update for the month of September.

1. Azure Update, September
Kanio Dimitrov

2. API Management
• Public roadmap here
• Request log access
• XSL Transform Policy
• Developer Tier restrictions removed
• Unlimited user accounts
• VNET Support

3. API Management
• Mock responses with return-response policy
• Retry policy – executes enclosed policies until retry
condition is met
• Fixed, linear and exponential algorithms are supported
• Dynamically specify partition keys in Log to Event Hub
policy

4. DevTest Labs – Auto-shutdown notifications
• Sent to lab users 15 minutes before auto-shutdown
• Save the work before shutdown
• Links to skip the shutdown
• Sent through webhook endpoints

5. Service Fabric
• Load metrics per node in Service Fabric Explorer
• Actor constructor dependency injection for Service Fabric
platform dependencies
• Preview ReliableConcurrentQueue:
• Strict ordering not required
• Multiple concurrent consumers and producers
• 1-Node local cluster for faster debugging

6. Azure AD Application Proxy
• Improved exception
handling for network
glitches
• Connector telemetry for
bootstrap operations
• Updated Azure Service
Bus relay infrastructure to
improve connectivity
success

7. Mobile Apps
• Apple requires IPv6-only networking as part of submission
process
• Support for IPv6
• Support for Apple submission process

8. Event Hubs
• Archiving directly to Azure Blob Storage account
• Time or size interval supported
• Simplified architecture
• Completely managed experience
• Azure Portal Management Experience available
• Namespaces unique to corresponding service
• Current namespaces - mixed

9. Azure Batch
• Batch pool support for Linux VMs and VM scale sets
• Linux Message Passing Interface support
• Task application packages

10. Azure Batch
• Virtual networks support for Windows VMs
• Job Auto-completion
• Persisted job and task output to Azure Storage
• Azure Portal Updates

11. Azure SQL Advisor
• Index-tuning recommendations
• Reduced time – from week to a day
• Automated tuning mode – automatically applied
recommendations

12. Azure PowerShell 1.7
• Fixing breaking changes for the following Storage cmdlets:
• Get-AzureRmStorageAccountKey: Accessing keys
• New-AzureRmStorageAccountKey: Accessing keys
• New-AzureRmStorageAccount: Specifying account type
• Get-AzureRmStorageAccount: Specifying account type
• Set-AzureRmStorageAccount: Specifying account type

13. Microsoft Operations Management Suite
• Adding Docker monitoring capabilities
• Centralize monitoring
• Container inventory
• Performance data
• Logs
• Simplified view of container usage and diagnoses issues
• Covers cloud and on-premise
• Search, custom reports and alerts