Azure Backup resource group for virtual machines

Azure Backup policy for virtual machines (VMs) now lets you customize the resource group name created by Backup so you can update it as your company requires. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Azure SQL Database Gen 4 hardware approaching end of life in 2020

Azure SQL Database is beginning the decommissioning process of Gen 4 Intel E5-2673 v3 (Haswell)-based CPUs and is transitioning to Intel E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell) 2.3 GHz and Intel SP8160 (Skylake) processors for all new deployments. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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IoT devices and applications to only use TLS 1.2 for communication with IoT Hub and DPS

To provide best-in-class encryption, IoT Hub and Device Provisioning Service are moving to Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 as the encryption mechanism of choice for IoT devices. As such, legacy support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 as well as several legacy ciphers will be deprecated in July[…]

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Azure Search meter names will change on February 1, 2020

Effective February 1, 2020, the meter names of Azure Search will change. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Azure SQL Database managed instance meter PITRs name changes

Effective February 1, 2020, the meter names of Azure SQL Database managed instance point-in-time restore (PITR) backup will change. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Azure IOT Central meter IDs will change on February 3, 2020

Effective February 3, 2020, the meter IDs of Azure IoT Central will change based on the number of message allocations. The Overages Messages meter ID will change as well. Modify your billing routines that rely on meter IDs. Your pricing may also be impacted. See the pricing page[…]

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Azure Data Box Disk is now available in East Asia

Azure Data Box Disk is now available in the East Asia (Hong Kong) region. This is in addition to the other Azure regions where Data Box Disk is already available—US, EU, Canada, Australia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Azure Government (US). Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Serial console for Azure Virual Machines now available in US Government Cloud

Serial console is now available in preview in the Azure US Government Cloud, allowing customers in the government-only clouds to access the serial console of their VMs or virtual machine scale set instances. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Azure Monitor for VMs now stores data in dedicated data types

Azure Monitor for virtual machines (VMs) now stores computer-related and process-related data in dedicated data types, making it simpler to query against as well as offering quicker data ingestion. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Azure Service Map now stores data in dedicated data types

Service Map now stores computer-related and process-related data in dedicated data types, making it simpler to query against as well as offering quicker data ingestion. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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