Build5Nines Weekly - October 4, 2022

Here's your weekly dose of the latest cloud and enterprise news and other community content for the week! Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within this newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week.

Now let's get to the weeks top news, blog articles, videos, podcasts, and more within the Cloud & Enterprise space!

The Weeks Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

• Azure Firewall Basic now in preview via Mark Gakman
• Azure Bicep: Deploy a virtual machine with Office pre-installed via Dave R – Microsoft Azure MVP☁️
• Upgrading Azure Load Balancer from Basic to Standard SKU via Alan Kinane
• Terraform locally run from Windows with State file in Azure Storage via Marc Kean
• Cybersecurity awareness tips from Microsoft to empower your team to #BeCyberSmart via Veronica Sun
• Microsoft Adds SSO and Passwordless Authentication Support to Azure Virtual Desktop via Rabia Noureen
• Microsoft CEO is “Very Confident” About Activision Blizzard Deal via Laurent Giret
• Future-ready IoT implementations on Microsoft Azure via Moe Tanabian

Microsoft Azure Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

• Public preview: Azure Firewall Basic
• Generally available: Query Store hints Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance
• Generally available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in China North 3
• Azure Machine Learning—General availability updates for September 2022
• Azure Machine Learning—Public preview updates for September 2022
• General availability: Smart tiering to vault-archive tier for Azure Backup
• Azure Batch Low Priority VMs will be retired on 30 September 2025
• Support for PostgreSQL 11 in Azure Database PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) ends on 9 November 2023
• The application insights Java 2.X SDK will be retired on 30 September 2025
• DevOps Starter is being retired. Use Azure Developer CLI for quick-start deployments to Azure
• Azure CycleCloud 7 will be retired on 30 September 2023
• Azure Static Web Apps support for Node 12 ends on 3 December 2022
• Azure Batch Job/Pool Lifetime Statistics API will be retired on 30 April 2023
• Support for Azure API Management self-hosted gateway version 0 and version 1 ends 1 October 2023
• Azure Batch TLS 1.0/1.1 will be retired on 31 March 2023
• Azure Monitor ITSM connector for creating ServiceNow events will be retired on 30 September 2025
• Azure Monitor ITSM connector for creating ServiceNow alerts will be retired on 30 September 2025
• Action required: Migrate to Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server by 16 September 2024
• Azure Basic Load Balancer will be retired on 30 September 2025—upgrade to Standard Load Balancer
• App Service support for Ruby is ending 12 April 2023 
• Upgrade your Azure Cache for Redis instances to use Redis version 6 by 30 June 2023
• Migrate to conversational language understanding before Language Understanding (LUIS) is retired on 1 October 2025
• Update your Azure SDK libraries for .NET and Golang by 30 September 2023
• Public preview: New Azure Maps Creator feature – custom styling
• Public preview: Policy analytics for Azure Firewall
• General availability: ExpressRoute FastPath support for Vnet peering and UDRs
• Azure SQL—General availability updates for late September 2022
• General availability: Azure SQL Database Hyperscale reverse migration to general purpose tier
• Azure SQL—Public preview updates for late September 2022
• General availability: Backup and restore in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
• Public preview: Azure AD authentication with Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
• Generally available: Azure Functions Linux Elastic Premium plan increased maximum scale-out limits
• Generally available: Azure Functions .NET Framework support in the isolated worker model
• Public preview: Java 17 Support in Azure Functions
• Public preview: Automatic backup for App Service Environment V2 and V3
• Generally available: Backup and restore updates for App Service
• Generally available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift landing zone accelerator
• Public preview: Billing has started for Azure Monitor Logs data archive
• General availability: Azure Sphere version 22.09
• General availability: Azure Policy built-in definitions for Azure NetApp Files

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