YouTube : https://youtu.be/XnYZiA5_odM SELECTED UPDATES FOR Microsoft Azure 1. Updates changed to “General Availability” 2. Service to be replaced 3. Azure Cost Management updates 4. Azure App Service 5. Azure SQL Database

1. EP 19: MICROSOFT AZURE PRODUCTS UPDATE
DECEMBER 14, 2019
Speaker Name: Bird
MVP : Office Servers & Services
Thanyapon Sananakin
MVP:(Microsoft Azure)

2. SELECTED UPDATES FOR MICROSOFT
AZURE
• Updates changed to “General Availability”
• Service to be replaced
• Azure Cost Management updates
• Azure App Service
• Azure SQL Database
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3. UPDATES CHANGED TO “GENERAL
AVAILABILITY”
• Azure Dedicated Hosts now generally available
Provides a single-tenant physical server to host your Azure virtual machines for
Windows and Linux.
The server capacity is not shared with other customers.
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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-dedicated-hosts-now-generally-available/

4. UPDATES CHANGED TO “GENERAL
AVAILABILITY”
• Azure generation 2 virtual machines (VMs)
Generation 2 VMs use the new UEFI-based boot architecture, as opposed to
the BIOS-based architecture used by generation 1 VMs. With these VMs you’ll
now be able to:
o Build larger VMs (up to 12 TBs).
o Provision OS disks sizes that exceed 2 TBs.
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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-generation-2-virtual-machines-vms-are-now-generally-available/

5. UPDATES CHANGED TO “GENERAL
AVAILABILITY”
• Azure Ephemeral OS
Suitable for stateless workloads and enable you to create thousands of VMs
at scale with Shared Image Gallery.
Faster reimage of your VMs to its original state
Free (no storage cost for the OS disk)
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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-ephemeral-os-disk-now-generally-available/

6. UPDATES CHANGED TO “GENERAL
AVAILABILITY”
• Soft delete for virtual machines in Azure
Key features
o 14 days extended retention of data.
o Native built-in protection at no additional cost..
o Intuitive recovery of 'soft deleted' data.
o GA since Aug 29, 2019
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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/soft-delete-virtual-machine-backup/

7. UPDATES CHANGED TO “GENERAL
AVAILABILITY”
• Soft delete for virtual machines in Azure
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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/soft-delete-virtual-machine-backup/

8. SERVICE TO BE REPLACED
• D15_v2/DS15_v2 Azure Virtual Machines may no longer
be isolated
Effective February 15, 2020
Transition
o If isolation required, Use Azure Dedicated Host
o Or use D15i_v2 and DS15i_v2 Azure VM (Pay-as-you-go and one year reserved instance)
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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/the-d15-v2-ds15-v2-azure-virtual-machines-may-no-longer-be-isolated-starting-february-15-2020/

9. SERVICE TO BE REPLACED
• Active Directory B2C is deprecating
login.microsoftonline.com
Effective December 4, 2020
login.microsoftonline.com endpoint will be deprecated for accessing B2C
tenants
Transition
o Move to new URL B2Clogin.com
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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/b2c-deprecate-msol/

10. AZURE COST MANAGEMENT UPDATES
• Azure Cost Management help you manage costs for
cloud solution provider (CSP) subscriptions
Build better dashboards by customizing tile names
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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-cost-management-updates-november-2019/

11. AZURE COST MANAGEMENT UPDATES
• Azure reservations for 16 Services
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 Virtual machines and
managed disks
 Blob storage
 App Service
 SQL database and
data warehouse
 Azure Database for MySQL,
MariaDB, and PostgreSQL
 Cosmos DB
 Data Explorer
 Databricks
 SUSE and Red Hat Linux
 Azure Red Hat OpenShift
 Azure VMWare solution by CloudSimple
 Blob Storage (GPv2) and Azure
Data Lake Storage (Gen2).
 Azure Database for MySQL.
 Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
 Azure Database for MariaDB.
 Azure Data Explorer.
 Premium SSD Managed Disks.
Note: New Services
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-cost-management-updates-november-2019/#optimize
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/save-more-on-azure-usage-announcing-reservations-for-six-more-services/

12. AZURE APP SERVICE
• Azure App Service—Increased scale out limits for
Premium v2 plans
Azure App Service has increased the maximum scale out limit for App
Service Premium v2 plans to 30 instances in the select regions listed here.
The Azure portal scale out UX, Azure auto-scale rules, and command line tools
can all be used to increase the instance count of an App Service Premium v2
plan up to 30 instances.
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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/increased-app-service-scale-out-limits-for-premiumv2-plans/

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DEMO
• SQL Server on VM (IaaS)
• SQL Database (PaaS)
Single Database
Elastic Pool
Managed Instanced (MI)

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SQL SERVER DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-paas-vs-sql-server-iaas

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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-managed-instance

16. AZURE SQL DATABASE
• Easily monitor backup storage costs for Azure SQL
databases and elastic Pools
Backup storage is provided at no extra charge for up to 100 percent of the
provisioned or allocated amounts for databases and pools.
For example, if you provision 1 TB of storage, you have the same amount (1
TB) of backup storage at no extra charge.
o Any additional backup storage over 1 TB will be charged at a fixed amount
depending on the region, workload, and size of individual databases
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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/monitor-backup-costs-for-single-databases-and-elastic-pools/

17. AZURE SQL MANAGED INSTANCE
• Azure Active Directory server principals (logins)
This feature enables you to create sign-ins for Azure AD users and groups in
the master database for managed instance as well as Azure AD users and
groups with sign-ins created for individual databases.
The Azure AD sign-ins can be granted with server level permissions for
managed instance enabling features available only for SQL logins.
How to:
o https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-SQL-Database/General-availability-
for-Azure-AD-server-principals-logins-for/ba-p/970155
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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-active-directory-server-principals-logins-for-sql-managed-instance/