Month: May 2023

Introduction
In High Availability architectures, every individual database, elastic pool database, and managed instance within the Premium and Business Critical service tiers is provisioned automatically with a primary read-write replica, accompan… Continue reading Impact of schema changes in the primary replica on read-only queries in the secondary replica→

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 102 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below:
 

Get it now in our marketplace

Apache Zeppelin, Secured an… Continue reading Azure Marketplace new offers – May 25, 2023→

Please head over to https://aka.ms/json-preview to learn more about the private preview of native JSON type and JSON aggregates – JSON_OBJECTAGG & JSON_ARRAYAGG in Azure SQL Database. Continue reading Private preview announcement of native JSON type & JSON aggregates in Azure SQL Database→

We’re excited to announce our new May (2305) service release! This month we’re highlighting three admin-requested capabilities that increase security and ease of use. First off, admins can now use filters to gain more options for assigning app protecti… Continue reading What’s new in Microsoft Intune 2305 (May) edition→

Hello friends,   
  
I’m pleased to announce the public preview of tenant restrictions version 2 (TRv2) across our commercial clouds!  
  
With TRv2, you can enable safe and productive cross-company collaboration while containing da… Continue reading Tenant Restriction v2 is now Public Preview!→

Introduction and Purpose: 
 
Existing example reference architectures to implement network connectivity between Azure and Azure VMware Solutions (AVS) recommend the use of ExpressRoute Global Reach where available. However, there are also sce… Continue reading Scenarios for AVS connectivity utilizing Private VPN Gateways and ExpressRoute for Azure Virtual WAN→

It seems like just last week we were just releasing Azure Data Studio 1.43 (oh wait, that was last month) and here we are announcing Azure Data Studio 1.44!
 
This release comes in the midst of Microsoft Build, where numerous Copilot-adjacent anno… Continue reading Announcing Azure Data Studio 1.44→

Companies often provide mobile devices to frontline workers that need to be shared between shifts. Microsoft’s shared device mode allows frontline workers to easily authenticate by automatically signing users in and out of all the apps that have enable… Continue reading Frontline workers using shared Android devices can use Outlook, Edge, Viva Engage, and Power Apps→