Microsoft Server & Tools Blogs

Cloud Platform Release Announcements for May 31, 2017

Server and Tools Blog Team — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 15:33:53 GMT

In this post: Draft | generally available, BizTalk Services | no longer offered, Operations Management Suite | Azure Backup updates, Operations Management Suite | Azure to Azure Site Recovery, Cloud Essentials | Public Preview, Power BI Desktop | generally available, Power BI Service | generally available, Azure Content Delivery, Network| Media + Download Optimized Delivery—Public Preview...READ MORE

Cloud Platform Release Announcements for January 13, 2016

Server and Tools Blog Team — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 14:40:22 GMT

In this post: Azure Automation DSC GA, Azure MFA per user SKU GA, Azure Premium Storage GA – New Geo-Availability in US South Cen – SN, Azure Site Recovery: VMware to Azure MT/CS update GA, ChakraCore Open Source GA, Microsoft Intune January Update GA, Operations Management Suite Alerting and Remediation, Power BI app for Windows 10 Mobile GA, Power BI Content Pack – AT Internet GA, Smartsheet GA and Lithium GA, Power BI Desktop – January Update, Power BI Publisher for Excel Public, RBAC and Customer Roles GA, Visual Studio Dev Essentials: Universal Windows Platform VM | GA, Visual Studio Dev Essentials: Windows R Server, Z-Ray for Azure App Service GA...READ MORE

Cloud Platform Release Announcements for December 16, 2015

Server and Tools Blog Team — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 11:10:37 GMT

In this post: StorSimple 8000 Series, StorSimple Local Volumes General Availability, StorSimple Cloud Appliance 8020 using Azure Premium Storage General Availability, On-premises StorSimple Virtual Array Public Preview, Power BI Desktop December Update, Power BI Content Packs: Bing Social, Office365Mon and VMob General Availability, System Center Configuration Manager General Availability, General Availability of Excel Add-in for Azure Machine Learning, Azure Machine Learning with Azure Stream Analytics Public Preview, ExpressRoute + CRM Online General Availability, Reservations for Instance Level Public IP General Availability...READ MORE

Cloud Platform Release Announcements for December 2, 2015

Server and Tools Blog Team — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 14:30:00 GMT

In this post: PowerApps limited preview, Azure App Service: Mobile Apps generally available, Azure Content Delivery Network Premium generally available, Azure Portal generally available, Azure Container Service gated preview, Introducing predictive maintenance preconfigured solution for Azure IoT Suite, HPE launches new hyper converged solution for Cloud Platform System Standard, Azure Security Center public preview, Preview Power BI integration with Cortana, Power BI Desktop November update now available, Power BI Excel Tiles generally available, Power BI introduces new Quick Insights feature for automatic detection of patterns and trends in your data, Power BI Content Packs Project Online and ProjectPlace generally available, Power BI for developers API update, Microsoft Power BI gateway for enterprise deployments available in preview, SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 3.1 public preview, SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 3 generally available...READ MORE

Cloud Platform Release Announcements for November 11, 2015

Server and Tools Blog Team — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:40:37 GMT

In this post: Announcing a strategic partnership between Microsoft and Red Hat, Announcing VM Scale Sets Public Preview, OMS Log Analytics Linux Management Public Preview, Azure Premium Storage generally available in additional regions: US East, Azure SQL Database Threat Detection now in Public Preview, Power BI Content Pack SparkPost and Application Insights Generally Available, Azure Machine Learning Multi-Geo Announcement: Southeast Asia and West Europe ...READ MORE

Cloud Platform Release Announcements for October 28, 2015

Server and Tools Blog Team — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 13:47:21 GMT

In this post: SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 3.0 Public Preview, Revolution R integration into SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.0, Azure SQL Database In-memory OLTP & Real-Time Operational Analytics Now in Public Preview, Azure Data Lake Analytics and Store in Public Preview, Power BI Content Pack for Azure Enterprise & Planview Enterprise Generally Available, Microsoft Intune October service update - Windows 10 EDP, Azure Role-Based Access Control is generally available, Azure Resource Health Public Preview, Python Tools 2.2 Update 1 Public Preview, "Visual Studio 2015, TFS 2015, & VS SDK 2015 Update 1 Public Preview"...READ MORE

Cloud Platform Release Announcements for October 14, 2015

Server and Tools Blog Team — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:43:46 GMT

In this post: Azure SQL Database Security, Azure SQL Database full text search generally available, New Power BI Content Packs for Azure Audit Logs and Microsoft Dynamics NAV generally available, Azure Backup supports application workloads generally available, ASR integrates with SQL AlwaysOn public review, Azure Premium Storage generally available in additional regions: US Central and EU North, OMS Log Analytics Mobile Apps generally available, Azure Active Directory Domain Services in public preview, General availability of Azure RMS Document Tracking, MFA support for RMS Sharing app on all platforms and RMS support for Outlook on Android, Azure Active Directory Application Proxy: Remote Desktop publishing and non-MS apps SSO public preview, System Center Configuration Manager technical preview 3 update 2, Azure Government Continues Momentum to Meet Government Customer Challenges...READ MORE

Cloud Platform Release Announcements for September 30, 2015

Server and Tools Blog Team — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 10:23:32 GMT

In this post: Power BI Content Pack comScore and Stripe GA, SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 2.4 Public Preview, Microsoft Intune September service update GA, Update for System Center Configuration PowerManager Technical Preview 3, Tools for Apache Cordova Update 2 GA, Recap of Strata + Hadoop Announcements, Recap of AzureCon Announcements...READ MORE

Cloud Platform Release Announcements for September 16, 2015

Server and Tools Blog Team — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:38:54 GMT

In this post: Consumer identity and access management in the cloud: Azure Active Directory B2C, Share resources with your partners with B2B collaboration, Enable easier configuration management from the cloud, Azure Backup IaaS VM Protection Generally Available, Cloud Platform System Update 2 Generally Available, Power BI Content Pack Generally Available, Revolution R Open 3.2.2 Generally Available, Azure SQL Database – Web & Business Retirement, Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2015 Generally Available, Windows 10 Tools 1.1 Generally Available...READ MORE

Cloud Platform Release Announcements for September 2, 2015

Server and Tools Blog Team — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 13:21:00 GMT

In this post: GS-Series virtual machines, D-series price reductions, Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) General Availability, Revolution R Enterprise in Azure Marketplace Public Preview, SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.3 Public Preview, Announcement of the new JDBC 4.2 for SQL Server Driver, Visual Studio 2012 Updates 5 General Availability, New Power BI content packs for Adobe Analytics and Azure Mobile Engagement, Azure SQL Database Elastic Database Basic and Premium tiers in public preview... READ MORE