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Retirement: Microsoft Purview Data Sharing (in Public Preview) is retiring on September 26th, 2025
Published date: Sep 19, 2024
On September 26th, 2025, we’ll retire the Microsoft Purview Data Sharing capability. Before that date, in order to continue to use data sharing you’ll need to transition your data sharing workloads to Microsoft Fabric, which offers External data sharing capabilities.
Required action
We recommend working with your account manager or services partner to define a transition plan from Microsoft Purview Data Share to Microsoft Fabric.
Help and support
If you have any questions, please reach out to your account manager or customer support.
If you have a support plan and you need technical help, create a support request.
- For Issue type, select Technical.
- For Subscription, select your subscription.
- For Service, click My services, then select Service type.
- Select the Microsoft Purview resource that you are creating a support request for.
- For Summary, type a description of your issue.
- For Problem type, select Data Share.
- For Problem subtype, select appropriately.
Public Preview: Advanced Container Networking Services: Enhancing security and observability in AKS
Published date: Sep 19, 2024
Advanced Container Networking Service offers advanced security feature, FQDN filtering. FQDN filtering allows you to define granular network policies based on domain names rather than IP addresses. This simplifies policy management, reduces administrative overhead, and ensures consistent policy enforcement across the network. By restricting access to specific domains, FQDN filtering helps prevent unauthorised access and mitigate security risks.
To complement FQDN filtering, the HA DNS proxy ensures uninterrupted DNS resolution. This redundancy enhances the overall reliability and availability of your containerised applications, minimising downtime and disruptions.
Read more about FQDN Filtering and its capabilities by reading the documentation, our blog announcement, and to learn about how to configure FQDN filtering and try it out on your clusters today.
Retirement: SQL Insights (preview)
Published date: Sep 19, 2024
SQL Insights (preview) will be retired on December 31st, 2024. We recommend that you transition to database watcher for Azure SQL or another database monitoring solution by that date.
We encourage you to make the switch sooner to benefit from the advanced monitoring capabilities of database watcher, including managed monitoring, in-depth SQL monitoring data, rich and detailed dashboards in the Azure portal, and near real time data latency.
After December 31st, 2024, SQL Insights (preview) will not be supported and will not be available in the Azure portal. You will retain any existing monitoring data collected by SQL Insights in your Log Analytics workspace.
Retirement: Support for PowerShell 7.2 on Azure Functions is ending on November 8, 2024
Published date: Sep 19, 2024
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Support for PowerShell 7.2 on Azure Functions is ending on November 8, 2024. Your apps that are hosted on Azure Functions will continue to run, but security updates will no longer be available, and we’ll no longer provide customer service for PowerShell 7.2. Learn more about Azure Functions stack version support.
To avoid potential security vulnerabilities, minimise risk for your Azure Functions apps, and take advantage of latest features, follow the steps to upgrade your app to PowerShell 7.4 before November 8, 2024. Note that PowerShell 7.4, the latest version available today, has breaking changes. Please be sure to follow the migration guide linked above when upgrading.
Retirement: Azure SQL Edge will be retired on September 30th, 2025
Published date: Sep 19, 2024
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To ensure a smooth transition, we highly recommend migrating to one of the following services:
- SQL Server Express edition: SQL Server Express edition utilises the same database engine as Azure SQL Edge. This free version can run in containers, just like SQL Edge. SQL Server Express edition is also fully supported for 5 years and there’re 5 years of extended support. This is the best option for database workloads that can run on the lesser of 1 socket/4 cores, 1,410 MB RAM, and a maximum of 10 GB per database. See here to learn more about the editions and supported features of SQL Server.
- SQL Server Standard edition: SQL Server Standard edition provides a cost-effective solution with essential database management features and capabilities, making it the best choice for SQL edge applications that surpass the limits of Express edition. Designed for small to medium-sized businesses, it supports basic data management and business intelligence needs. With the SQL Server Standard edition, organisations can benefit from robust performance, security, and scalability. This makes it an ideal choice for applications that require reliable data management without the need for advanced enterprise features.
- SQL Managed Instance enabled by Azure Arc: SQL Managed Instance enabled by Azure Arc offers a robust solution. This service provides near 100% compatibility with the latest SQL Server database engine. It allows existing Azure SQL Edge customers to seamlessly move to a managed data service with minimal changes while maintaining data sovereignty. Additionally, SQL Managed Instance includes built-in management capabilities that significantly reduce management overhead. This makes it an ideal choice for organisations looking to modernise their data infrastructure. See here to learn more about SQL Managed Instance enabled by Azure Arc.
If you have questions, get answers from community experts in Microsoft Q&A. If you have additional questions, please contact us. If you have a support plan and you need technical help, create a support request.
Generally Available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 75 – August 2024
Published date: Sep 19, 2024
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This update provides the following improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components.
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Added support for Linux OS for:
- Azure to Azure – No new releases.
- Modernised VMware/Physical to Azure – No new releases.