Cloud Platform roadmap
The Cloud Platform roadmap provides a snapshot of what we’re working on in the Cloud Platform business. Use the roadmap to find out what we’ve recently made generally available, released into public preview, are still developing and testing, or are no longer developing. Learn more about the types of updates you can expect to find on the Cloud Platform roadmap here.
Give us feedbackAzure Operational Insights is a software as a service (SaaS) tailored for IT operations teams. This service leverages the power of Azure HDInsight to glean machine data across environments, and turn it into real-time operational intelligence to enable better-informed business decisions. Operational Insights provides powerful search capabilities that enable ad-hoc root cause analysis and automated troubleshooting across multiple data sources. Direct code instrumentation or knowledge of complex schema are not required to quickly receive interactive results. Drill deeper into areas of interest and use search to find custom insights through proactive exploration or reactive troubleshooting. Use this information to gain deep visibility into your datacenter capacity, and manage both current and future needs for your infrastructure.
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Azure Site Recovery adds the ability to offload replication to SAN’s from EMC, NetApp, HP 3PAR, and Hitachi, and enables high performance synchronous and asynchronous replication between on-premises private clouds. With array-based replication, customers attain the lowest possible Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO).
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Azure Site Recovery has been enhanced to run in small environments as a standalone product, making proven enterprise grade availability services more cost effective for small businesses and branch offices that do not have SCVMM deployed. Operating as a cloud service with minimal expense and complexity, Azure Site Recovery can replicate and recover vital data and applications to a secondary site, a service provider, or Azure.
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Azure Site Recovery provides you with full-featured disaster recovery that is simple, and provides automated protection and replication of your physical and virtual environment. The addition of Site Recovery as part of our Azure Backup and disaster recovery features help meet a Government agency’s security rigor and requirements, as well as help meet your hybrid cloud objectives. More updates will become available in the near future as we enable physical Linux and VMWare Linux VM replication scenarios to Azure Storage and/or a secondary datacenter.
Learn moreWith Azure Backup in Azure Government, government customers will have the protection of Azure IaaS VMs to leverage the cloud for critical business needs by backing up their assets on the cloud. Government customers can leverage this Microsoft Azure Backup server to back-up their key Microsoft workloads like SQL, SharePoint, and Exchange to Azure.
Learn moreThe Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) takes our innovative IT management solutions to the cloud, enabling greater control and new capabilities across your hybrid cloud. OMS provides customers with simplified IT management for any enterprise, backup and integrated recovery for all their servers and applications, in-built automation to orchestrate complex and repetitive operations, log analytics to collect and search across multiple machine data sources and easily identify the root cause of operational issues, inbuilt protection to help identify malware status and missing system updates. OMS works with existing infrastructure, including System Center 2012 R2, to manage current environments. To support future needs, we will bring additional functionality to OMS, including management for Azure Stack and integration with System Center 2016. OMS will also expand to cloud based patching, inventory, container management and more.
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Deploying and maintaining the desired state of your servers and application resources has been tedious and error-prone. With Azure Automation Desired State Configuration (DSC), you can consistently deploy, reliably monitor, and automatically update the desired state of all your IT resources, at scale from the cloud. Built on PowerShell DSC, Azure Automation DSC can align machine configuration with specific state across physical and virtual machines, Windows or Linux, in the cloud or on-premises. So you can enable continuous IT services delivery with consistent control and you can manage rapid change across your heterogeneous hybrid IT environment with ease. Azure Automation DSC is generally available in free and basic tiers. It is also included as part of the System Center add-on for Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS), the simplified hybrid cloud IT management solution for any enterprise.
Document Tracking, a feature of Azure Rights Management enables document owners to track activities on sensitive files that they share with others. Activities such as recipients opening the files, unauthorized users being denied access to the files and the latest state of the files can be viewed on a web hosted site. With a single click, document owners can also revoke access to shared files.
Learn moreOffice for iPad apps now support viewing of Azure Rights Management protected Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents. This helps you protect your data while retaining your mobile productivity experiences.
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Intune can now help you manage apps you purchased through the Apple Volume Purchase Program (VPP) for Business. This includes synchronizing license information between Apple and Intune, and tracking how many copies of each app you have deployed. We will continue to build additional support for Apple VPP in the coming months.
Learn moreNew MAM enabled apps available for MDM enrolled devices:
- Microsoft Skype for Business (MAM with MDM) available now for iOS and Android
- Microsoft Dynamics CRM (MAM with MDM) available now for iOS and Android
- Adobe Reader (MAM with MDM) available now for iOS
Microsoft Intune November service update includes announcements related to Intune App SDK with partners as well as enhancements to the Intune mobile application management (MAM) capabilities to provide additional flexibility. In addition to the advanced Intune MAM capabilities available today that require device enrollment, you now have the option to manage corporate applications and data on devices without requiring enrollment in Intune.
Learn moreThis update to the Outlook app allows you to protect your corporate data using MAM controls without device enrollment. This is a great option for BYOD scenarios where you want to keep corporate data safe without managing a user’s device. Available now for iOS and Android.
Learn moreNew features and enhancements that were made available as part of this service update include support for new Windows 10 features.
Learn moreWe are excited to announce that the new current branch of System Center Configuration Manager and Endpoint Protection (version 1511) is now generally available, and can be downloaded from the Microsoft Evaluation Center, MSDN, and Volume Licensing Service Center. Product improvements include comprehensive support for Windows 10 and improved unified device management.
Learn moreSystem Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager SP1 and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP2 deliver full compatibility with existing features for Windows 10 deployment, upgrade and management. Also included in these service packs are new hybrid features for customers using System Center Configuration Manager integrated with Microsoft Intune to manage devices.
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Power BI continues to make it easier for users to connect to their data, providing pre-built solutions for popular services as part of the experience. This month we added content packs for Azure Search and Troux.
Azure Search for Power BI allows you to monitor and understand the traffic to your Azure Search service. The Azure Search content pack for Power BI provides detailed insights on your Search data, including Search, Indexing, Service Stats and Latency. Connecting Power BI to your Azure Search analytics storage is easy and the analytics will include metrics from the last 30 days for you to explore.
Troux enables businesses to manage technology investments and ensure the greatest impact while minimizing risk. The Power BI content pack allows you to visualize your applications, technologies and capabilities of your current system as well as analysis over time.
Subscribers to these supported services can now quickly connect to their account from Power BI and see their data through live dashboards and interactive reports that have been pre-built for them. Getting started with data visualization and analysis has never been easier, for additional information visit the Power BI blog.
Power BI continues to make it easier for users to connect to their data, providing pre-built solutions for popular services as part of the experience. This month we added a content pack for Alpine Metrics and Dynamics AX – Financial Performance and Retail Channel Performance.
Alpine Metrics, utilizing Cortana Analytics, predicts sales outcomes with 95%+ accuracy. Leveraging Dynamics CRM and Salesforce, the Alpine Metrics Sales Predictions content pack for Power BI includes metrics such as potential and predicted sales and risks, allowing you deeper insight into the future of your business.
Microsoft Dynamics AX is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that helps enterprises increase the speed of doing business. This update includes two Dynamics AX 7 content packs which are targeted towards different business users. The Financial Performance content pack, designed specifically for CFOs, provides access to insights about your organization’s financial performance. The Retail Channel Performance is targeted for channel managers focuses on sales performance to predict trends and uncover insights by drawing directly from Retail & Commerce data.
Subscribers to these supported services can now quickly connect to their account from Power BI and see their data through live dashboards and interactive reports that have been pre-built for them. Getting started with data visualization and analysis has never been easier, for additional information visit the Power BI blog.
Alpine MetricsMicrosoft Dynamics AXPower BI blogASP.NET 5 has been designed to provide you with a lean and composable .NET stack for building modern cloud-based apps. ASP.NET 5 will build on .NET Core 5 with key features such as cross-platform support for Mac and Linux and side-by-side deployment, and will also run on the next release of the full .NET Framework.
Learn moreREST APIs and Service Hooks to extend and integrate with Visual Studio Team Services.
Visual Studio Team Services Team Projects can now be hosted in US or EU datacenters.
The information on this page is subject to change at any time without notice, and may not be applicable to customers in all geographies.
