What’s Brewing ?

January 2016

Microsoft Azure Stack

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• A new modern App Service creation experience

• Project template updates for API and Mobile Apps

• Resource Manager template export

• Improved REST API client generation

Technical Preview

Azure Media Player Update

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• Version 1.6.1 -This release includes a 33% reduction in size of the AMP scripts

• support for hotkeys and a time tip hover for accurate seeking

• Easy Diagnostics using the Diagnostics tab on the demo page.

Azure Mobile Apps update

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• File management SDK

• Azure Mobile App File management SDK makes working with files simple

• Managing and synchronizing files is handled by the SDK

• Open source project available on GitHub client or server repositories.

• Node.js SDK updates

• Yeoman generator

• Configuration support for offline development

• Authentication and authorization updates.

Beta

WordPress for Azure SQL database / SQL Server

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• Project Nami is an open source WordPress deployment built specifically for

Azure SQL Database

• Incorporates the ease of WordPress with the performance and ease of

management of Azure SQL Database V12

Azure SDK 2.8.2 for .NET

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• User interface

• Engineering improvements

• Azure Resource Management (ARM) template export improvements

Application Insights Update

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• Proactive Detection

• detects abnormal patterns in your Application Insights telemetry

• No Setup or configuration

• Notification through email

• AJAX Collection in Application Insights

• Application Insights can now automatically tell you about the performance

of AJAX calls made by your web page apps.

• Ability to see whether and how often your AJAX-dependent features cause

problems.

Azure Batch Service - Update

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• MPI support

• Ability to take node offline without deleting it

• Ability to change auto scale formula evaluation interval

Azure Search - Updates

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• Search Traffic Analytics now available

• Analyze your search traffics data with PowerBI

• Reports generated on four dimentions Search, Indexing, Service stats,

Latency.

• Enable it through portal

• Custom Analyzers in Azure Search

• Create custom analyzers based on the predefined tokenizers,

token filters and char filters from Lucene.

Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer

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• Linux support

• Attach storage accounts with custom endpoints

• Attach blob containers with a SAS key

• View and edit blob metadata

Preview

Azure DocumentDB – Running JavaScript with Chakra

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• One of the first services to embed Chakra to provide JavaScript

programmability natively within the database engine

• Uses Chakra to provide a server-side programming surface for the

transactional execution of JavaScript logic natively inside the database engine.

• Register and execute stored procedures, written in JavaScript, which can be

used to perform a batch or sequence of operations across multiple

documents as a single ACID transaction.

Zend Z-Ray for Azure App Service

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• A fully extensible API is available.

• Includes application and framework-specific support for a wide range of PHP

applications, frameworks, databases, and extensions, including WordPress,

Drupal, Magento, Joomla, Laravel, Zend Framework, Symfony

• Tightly integrated with the Azure App Service app management experience

and is easy to enable from the Tools blade of the Azure portal.

General Availability

Azure site Recovery - Enhanced migration and disaster recovery for VMware

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• Easy to setup and reduced complexity

• Reduced total cost of ownership

• Expanded support for multi-VM Enterprise-class workloads

• Enterprise grade enhancements

Azure Storage Data Movement Library 0.2.0

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• Download, upload, and copy directories (local file directories, Azure Blob virtual

directories, Azure File directories)

• Transfer directories in recursive mode

• Transfer directories in flat mode (local file directories)

• Specify the search pattern when copying files and directories

• Provide Event to get single file transfer result in a transfer

• Download Snapshots under directories

API Management: Advanced caching and throttling policies

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• The cache-lookup-value and cache-store-value policies enable caching

arbitrary pieces of data at arbitrary points .

• The quota-by-key and rate-limit-by-key policies allow partitioning quota and

rate limits by using custom key values..

Azure Resource Manager-WordPress on Azure App Service backed by MySQL VM

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• CentOS 6.6 are used for Azure virtual machines to host MySQL 5.6 server

• GTID-based replication

• Two-node MySQL master slave configuration

Updates available at http://azure.microsoft.com

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/