What’s Brewing ?

December 2015

Azure SDK 2.8.1 for .NET

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• A new modern App Service creation experience

• Project template updates for API and Mobile Apps

• Resource Manager template export

• Improved REST API client generation

Microsoft Azure DocumentDB: Retirement of Preview SDKs

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• Version 2014-08-21 (released prior to general availability)

• The affected versions will be removed on February 29, 2016

Improved Azure SQL Database connection experience in SQL Server Data Tools

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• Easily connect to any database from your history - from Publish, Schema Compare, Data

Compare

• Pin favorite connections for easy access

• Browse your Azure SQL Databases direct from Visual Studio and simply click to connect

• Azure firewall rule creation is automatically handled at connection time

Azure Security Center now available

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• Understand the security state of your Azure resources

• Take control of cloud security with policies that let you recommend and monitor security

configurations

Public Preview

Azure Container Service

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• ACS is an Azure Compute resource provider to create and manage a cluster of virtual

machines that act as container hosts together with a number of "master" machines that are

used to orchestrate your application containers

Preview

App Service Mobile Apps

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• Easily connect your app to data

• Build Mobile backend API in seconds

• Cross platform push notifications

General Availability

AzCopy 5.0 with File and Table Storage support

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• Upload, download, and copy Azure Storage Blob containers, block blobs, page blobs and

append blobs

• Upload, download, and copy Azure Storage File shares and files

• Import and export Azure Storage Table entities

General Availability

Microsoft Azure Backup Server

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• Microsoft Azure Backup Server enables cloud backups and disk backups for key Microsoft

workloads like SQL, SharePoint and Exchange regardless if these workloads are running on

Hyper-V, VMware or Physical servers.

General Availability

SQL Data Warehouse availability in India

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• Easily connect to any database from your history - from Publish, Schema Compare, Data

Compare

• Pin favorite connections for easy access

• Browse your Azure SQL Databases direct from Visual Studio and simply click to connect

• Azure firewall rule creation is automatically handled at connection time

Public Preview

Azure Redis Cache: Premium tier

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• Enterprise-ready tier designed for maximum scale and integration.

• Redis data persistence

• Redis cluster

General Availability

Azure Resource Manager support in Azure Automation runbooks

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• Automate new functionalities on Azure (with ARM as well as ASM)

• Out of the box support for cmdlets in Azure Automation

General Availability

New CDN features and capabilities in the new Azure Portal

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Azure CDN is also now available in the new Azure portal via two new SKUs: CDN Standard and

CDN Premium. Both these SKUs offer a great new experience for enabling and managing your

CDN and provide access to new CDN POPs in India, Australia and South America.

Lucene query language in Azure Search

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• The Lucene query language was developed in Apache Lucene.

• Searches with regular expressions

• Fuzzy searches

API Management policies to integrate external services

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• Alerting of error conditions

• Validation of reference tokens

• Aggregating responses from distinct backend services

• Transparent Versioning

• Edge Caching

Run U-SQL scripts locally with updated Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio

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• Run U-SQL scripts locally on your development machine.

• The local run feature supports all U-SQL scripts including ones with C# user code.

Azure Data Lake now integrated with Azure Data Catalog

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• Now register, enrich, discover, understand and consume big data in the Azure Data Lake.

Using Ambari Views to author Hive and Pig Queries

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• Ambari Views allow developers to create UI components that can plug into the Ambari

Interface using the Ambari Views Framework.

• Ambari views can be launched from the Ambari portal and can be used to submit Hive and

Pig jobs.

StorSimple Virtual Array

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• The virtual array can be run as a virtual machine on your Hyper-V or VMware ESXi hypervisors

and can be configured as a File Server (NAS) or as an iSCSI server.

• Each virtual array can manage up to 64 TB of data in the cloud.

Preview

Simplified configuration experience for SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines

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• Automated Patching

• Automated Backup

• Azure Key vault integration

Updates available at http://azure.microsoft.com

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/