Martyn Coupland

More than 36 general availability (GA) announcements were made at Microsoft Ignite in the past week. 21 of them coming from Azure and some closely related services.

Azure

• Azure Sentinel gets more than 30 new connectors overing a raft of new services including Dynamics, Salesforce, and Cisco Umbrella. Improvements in data ingestion, analytics, and playbooks are also announced.
• Azure Machine Learning gets new role based access controls.
• Azure Stream Analytics is now generally available and supports dedicated clusters in single-tenant.
• Azure Cache for Redis, now has two additional tiers; Enterprise and Enterprise Flash.
• Azure Resource Mover, is a new capability allowing you to migrate their applications from one region to another once a new region is launched or to take advantage of region with availability zones.
• Azure Communication Services, will be generally available in a few weeks after a preview period that started in September.
• Private Azure Marketplace service, allows organization to limit which solutions their users find from the broader Azure Marketplace.
• Azure Arc now supports the management of Kubernetes clusters.
• Centralised backup supports now virtual machines, SQL on Azure, HANA and Azure Files.
• Azure Remote Rendering, is generally available for performing the compute intensive rendering, then streaming them in real-time to devices.
• Azure Monitor for Windows Virtual Desktop is also generally available in the coming weeks.

Azure Active Directory

• Azure AD Application proxy now supports header-based authentication apps.
• Azure AD External Identities, allowing Azure AD access for will be generally available later this month.
• One of the most anticipated announcements was the availability of passwordless authentication.

Minor Updates

• Public IP addresses when changed between SKUs now maintain the IP address without it changing.
• Guided experience for selecting the right load balancing option will make it’s way to the portal.
• More complete peering and Global Reach configuration with ExpressRoute Portal.