Microsoft Ignite is one of the biggest event for developers and IT professionals that takes place from November 4th to November 8th this year. There are tons of announcements to share with us and the official Book of News, the aim of which is to provide the summary of the event, already available to download. In this post, I’d like to highlight the most interesting coming updates:
- Azure Generation 2 virtual machines generally available (UEFI…)
- Azure Bastion GA (PaaS: RDP/SSH access to VMs)
- Azure Arc (manage Azure resources anywhere; HOT!)
- Azure ExpressRoute with Satellite Connectivity
- Azure Peering Service, Internet Analyzer, IPv6 for VNET GA
- Azure Managed Disks with server-side encryption and customer-managed keys
- New virtual machine sizes in Azure
- Azure Monitor for containers, Prometheus Support
- Windows Admin Center 1910 GA
- Threat Protection for AKS
- Kubernetes clusters with Azure Availability Zone, Cluster autoscaler and multiple node pools
- Multiple updates and new features for Azure DevOps
- Azure Spring Cloud Preview
- Azure Active Directory Connect cloud provisioning (Preview; HOT!)
- Passwordless authentication for more Azure Active Directory customers
- Windows Virtual Desktop
- New versions of Microsoft Edge
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