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Azure DevTest Labs: Set auto-shutdown for a single lab VM
December 19, 2016 - In Azure DevTest Labs, you can configure auto-shutdown for a single lab VM in addition to the auto-shutdown policy that applies to all the lab VMs.DocumentDB: Change Feed support
December 16, 2016 - With Change Feed support, DocumentDB provides a sorted list of documents within a DocumentDB collection in the order in which they were modified.Azure DevTest Labs: Create claimable lab VMs in a pool
December 15, 2016 - DevTest Labs supports claimable lab VMs. Lab admins can put VMs in a shared pool, and lab users can pick a working VM from the pool whenever they need one.General availability: Azure IoT Gateway SDK
December 13, 2016 - With the general availability of the Azure IoT Gateway SDK, developers can create on-premises gateways that allow their IoT solutions to do more.General availability: Package Management extension for Visual Studio Team Services
December 12, 2016 - The Package Management extension for Visual Studio Team Services is now generally available. It helps you move to DevOps workflows with continuous integration and delivery.General availability: Azure IoT Hub device management
December 12, 2016 - Azure IoT Hub device management enables IoT developers and operators to harness the power of the Azure hyperscale cloud to organize, monitor, query, and orchestrate changes across billions of devices.Query Store is turned on by default for Azure SQL Database
December 7, 2016 - Effective immediately, Query Store is turned on by default in all new and existing databases in Azure SQL Database (including elastic database pools).General availability: Mobile Apps SDKs for Apache Cordova and JavaScript
December 6, 2016 - We released the Mobile Apps SDK for Apache Cordova v2.0.0, and the Mobile Apps SDK for JavaScript. This completes the suite of mobile platforms that the Mobile Apps feature supports.New Quickstart experience for Web Apps
December 5, 2016 - The new Quickstart experience for Web Apps guides you through the steps to deploy your app by using the deployment stack and deployment method of your choice in record time.Back up Azure VMs directly from the VM blade
December 5, 2016 - Azure Backup provides the capability to back up a virtual machine directly from virtual machine management blade.General availability: New API version and .NET SDK for Azure Search
December 1, 2016 - Azure Search has released new features in API version 2016-09-01 and a new .NET SDK.Application Insights: Telemetry data will require HTTPS
November 28, 2016 - Application Insights will no longer accept telemetry data sent using HTTP. Additionally, we recommend updating the JavaScript SDK snippet to download the SDL library via HTTPS.Custom reports for Verizon Standard and Premium profiles
November 23, 2016 - You can now find custom reports in the supplemental management portal for both Verizon profile types.Azure Backup security capabilities for protecting cloud backups
November 23, 2016 - Azure Backup provides security features that help customers secure their backups and recover data by using cloud backups if production and backup servers are compromised.Set auto-shutdown for VMs created through Resource Manager
November 22, 2016 - You can set virtual machines created through the Azure Resource Manager deployment model to shut down automatically.Application Insights: General availability in additional regions and resource location update
November 22, 2016 - Application Insights is generally available in East US, South Central US, West Europe, and North Europe. The US resource location has changed to align with the location of analytics data.Azure DevTest Labs: Create multiple-VM environments with Resource Manager templates
November 21, 2016 - In Azure DevTest Labs, you can create your environments by using Azure Resource Manager templates.DocumentDB: Paper about the TCO of running a NoSQL database is available
November 19, 2016 - Azure DocumentDB Principal Engineering Manager Kirill Gavrylyuk recently published a paper that compares the TCO of running a NoSQL database in multiple scenarios.DocumentDB .NET Core Preview SDK available
November 19, 2016 - You can use the DocumentDB .NET Core Preview SDK to build fast, cross-platform ASP.NET Core and .NET Core apps to run on Windows, Mac, and Linux.Free local development with the DocumentDB Emulator
November 18, 2016 - Azure DocumentDB offers a free emulator that provides a local development experience for the Azure DocumentDB service.Azure Newsletter
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