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Migrate your cloud services to a new deployment model before 31 August 2024.

You can now run Windows 11 preview images on Azure Virtual Desktop.

Take advantage of VM sizes that are now available when creating your Batch pools.

Placement policies enable admins to specify constraints or rules when allocating Virtual Machines within an Azure VMware Solution private cloud. With this update the creation and assignment of vSphere Distributed…

Benefit from new features and enhancements in OpenShift release 4.7.

The 8.2 release expands 3rd-party scheduler support and includes significant improvements and bug fixes.

Start VM on Connect will help you optimize the costs of your deployment by offering a configuration setting in the service to start stopped or deallocated VMs when needed.

Azure VMware Solution (AVS) customers are now be able to take advantage of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for disaster recovery scenarios including; On-premise VMware to AVS, and Primary AVS…

Get started today with Azure Virtual Desktop in public preview in Azure China cloud. Deploy and scale Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes.

Azure VMware Solution has expanded availability to Canada East. With this release Canada East is now the second region within the Canadian sovereign area to become available (joining Canada Central).

Azure VMware Solution has expanded availability to Australia Southeast. With this release Australia Southeast is now the second region within the Australian sovereign area to become available (joining Australia East).

Learn about our new announcements and product updates for Azure Virtual Desktop at Microsoft Inspire 2021.

With disk pool, Azure VMware Solution customers can now access Azure Disk Storage for high-performance, durable block storage. Customer can scale their storage independent of compute and handle their growing…

Accelerate your transition to Cloud Services (extended support) in Azure Resource Manager (ARM) using the new tool that provides a seamless and fully orchestrated migration of your Cloud Services (classic)…

New release for Azure CycleCloud 7-9-10

Azure Container Registry is now generally available in West US 3 region. Azure Container Registry handles private Docker container images as well as related content formats, such as Helm charts,…

Take control of OS image upgrades on your virtual machine scale sets by using the new maintenance control feature. Now you can update at the time chosen by you with…

Azure Marketplace offers to run JBoss EAP on Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets are now available. Customers can quickly move existing Java EE/Jakarta EE workloads to the…

Beginning September 30, 2021, the Azure Virtual Desktop web client will no longer support IE 11.

Azure Container Registry handles private Docker container images as well as related content formats, such as Helm charts, OCI artifacts, and images built to the OCI image format specification.

MSIX app attach capability is now generally available in the Azure portal and is integrated with Azure Resource Manager.

You can now keep your VMs deallocated to save cost and have it automatically start up when a user connects.

Seamless, fully orchestrated, no downtime for most scenarios and minimal effort migration path for your existing Cloud Services (classic) deployments.

Azure Monitor for Azure Virtual Desktop provides a centralized view of the health of your Azure Virtual Desktop environment and enables you to optimize your deployment and quickly troubleshoot issues.

Azure virtual machine scale sets provide the management capabilities for applications that run across many VMs, automatic scaling of resources, and load balancing of traffic. Scale set orchestration modes allow…

This release includes a considerable list of resolved issues and a retired feature.

Take advantage of new VM sizes that are now available when creating your Batch pools, including the latest HPC and GPU sizes.

Azure Container Registry is now generally available in Norway East region. Azure Container Registry handles private Docker container images as well as related content formats, such as Helm charts, OCI…

The new Azure VMware Solution has expanded availability to Southeast Asia (Singapore). This update is in addition to the existing availability in US East, US West, West Europe, Australia, Japan…

Azure VMware Solution helps simplify migration to the cloud by running VMware environments natively on Azure. With the new simplified NSX networking experience, it is now easier for VMware administrators…

New Azure Spot Virtual Machines capabilities – ‘try & restore’ and REST APIs to simulate VM evictions - are now in public preview.

Azure Migrate assessments for Azure VMware Solution with improved node sizing logic is now generally available.

Azure Batching rendering VM images & licensing are being retired.

Transition to Azure Batch Virtual Machine pool configuration by 29 February 2024.

Benefit from new features and enhancements in OpenShift release 4.6.

Automatic extension upgrade provides safe and automatic upgrades for extensions on Azure virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets, keeping your environments more secure and up to date.

Today, we are announcing the retirement of the Azure Service Fabric Mesh public preview. New deployments will no longer be available but we will continue to support existing deployments until…

Announcing the public preview support of Azure Container Registry across Availability Zones

The new Azure VMware Solution has expanded availability to Japan East and UK South Azure regions in addition to the existing regions: US East, US West, West Europe and Australia.

Azure can now select the dedicated host to which your VM is deployed. Additionally, Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets can be deployed in conjunction with Dedicated Hosts.

The new DCsv2_Type1 Dedicated Host SKUs add confidential computing capabilities to Azure Dedicated Hosts. The DCsv2-series Azure Virtual Machines can help protect the confidentiality and integrity of your data and…

Customers can easily deploy a variety of robust, production-ready WebSphere Liberty or Open Liberty architectures on Azure Red Hat OpenShift.

Benefit from new features and enhancements in OpenShift release 4.5.

Azure Monitor for Windows Virtual Desktop is a new capability that provides a centralized monitoring view to help you identify and troubleshoot issues with Windows Virtual Desktop.

The vCPU quota checks that are performed during pool operations are being updated to check the dedicated VM series vCPU quotas, in addition to the Batch account total dedicated vCPUs…

Announcing the Public Preview of the Guest Health feature of Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines, that monitors the health of your virtual machines and fires an alert when any of…

This release brings new features, bug fixes, and performance enhancements.

The latest memory optimized Azure VM series Esv4, Edsv4, and Easv4 now offer new constrained vCPU VM sizes.

A number of new security-related features are now available in preview.

New job scheduling and security-related features are now available.