Ashish Sharma

Azure service updates General availability: Text Analytics' Named Entity Recognition v3 now supports 10 languages with improved AI quality With support for more entity categories and more languages, using Text Analytics NER enables organizations to extract higher quality insights from unstructured text. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Machine Learning Output Datasets Read data in the cloud efficiently with Output datasets. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Machine Learning Data Labeling – Image Instance Segmentation Data Labeling in Azure Machine learning gives you a central place to create, manage, and monitor labeling projects. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Sphere version 21.01 is now available This release includes new memory and current control functions as well as new features in the SDK. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Service Fabric Mesh Preview Retirement Today, we are announcing the retirement of the Azure Service Fabric Mesh public preview. New deployments will no longer be available but we will continue to support existing deployments until April 28, 2021. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure API Management Updates - January, 2021 A regular Azure API Management service update was started on January 21, 2021, and included several new features and bug fixes, along other improvements. It may take several weeks for your API Management service to receive the update. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Resource instance rules for access to Azure Storage now in public preview Resource instance rules enable secure connectivity to Azure Storage by restricting access to specific resources of select Azure services. Resource instance rules to control access to Azure Storage are now in preview in all Azure public regions. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Cognitive Services Translator - Inuktitut language text translation now available Translate to or from Inuktitut into any of the more than 70 languages available in Translator. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates 99.99% uptime for Azure Active Directory Premium customers is coming April 1st, 2021 SLA for Azure AD is increasing the up-time commitment to 99.99% for Azure AD Premium customers to support the need for an Identity service with high resilience and low interruptions. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Germany West Central Availability Zones now generally available Microsoft is pleased to announce that Azure Availability Zones are now generally available from the Germany West Central datacenter region. Azure Availability Zones (AZs) feature in the broad portfolio of services and products that enable organizations to create resilient, highly available applications for mission-critical workloads. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates South Central US Availability Zones now generally available Azure Availability Zones are now generally available in the South Central US region. These three new zones provide customers with options for additional resiliency and tolerance to infrastructure impact. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Confluent Cloud Integration with Azure is now generally available Confluent and Microsoft have worked together to enable seamless integration experience between Azure and Confluent Cloud – a managed Apache Kafka service. This service will enable you to provision Confluent Cloud resources using Azure client interfaces like portal/CLI/SDKs. Other integration points include single sign-on using Azure Active directory and unified billing through Azure with an option to draw down on existing Azure commits. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Python 3.9 in Azure Functions is now in public preview Announcing some enhancements to the development experience for Python workloads in Azure Functions, including support for Python 3.9. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Data Factory is now available in two additional regions Azure Data Factory is now available in two new regions: China North 2 and South India Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure HDInsight extends capabilities for encryption of data in transit and at rest Azure HDInsight Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) encryption in transit is now generally available. HDInsight also supports version-less keys for customer-managed key (CMK) encryption at rest. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates New Azure Cloud Services deployment model in public preview Use Azure Cloud Services (extended support), now in public preview, to increase regional resiliency and gain access to new capabilities that the Azure Resource Manager-based deployment model provides. Click here for more information.

The Backup feature in Azure App Service allows us to easily create app backups manually or on a schedule. Refer this blog to know more about how to configure backup in Azure Web App: https://www.iamashishsharma.com/2021/01/configure-backup-for-your-azure-app.html In this article, we will discuss how to create an alert which will get triggered whenever backup of web app will fail. Go to Alerts and create new alert rule. Select your Azure web app for which you want to configure backup failure alert. Click on Condition and Search “Create Web App Backup” . Then change the Status to “Failed” and click on “Done” . This will create a condition which will trigger whenever any backup will fail in Azure Web App. Click on Action Groups and then you can select a existing action group. Otherwise click on Create action group. Select your subscription and resource group. Enter your action group name. Select your Notification method. I have added Email in the notificatio...

The Backup feature in Azure App Service allows us to easily create app backups manually or on a schedule. You can restore the app to a snapshot of a previous state by overwriting the existing app or restoring to another app. Refer the below steps to schedule your backup: 1. Go to your App service and click on Backups from left Navigation bar. 2. Click on Configure and select your Azure storage account and container to store your backup. Then configure the schedule to start your backup as illustrated below. 3. Once everything is configured you can see backup status as shown below. 4. Once backup is succeeded, you can see the next scheduled backup details. Exclude files from your backup If you want to exclude few folders and files from being stored in your backup, then you can create _backup.filter file inside D:\home\site\wwwroot folder of your web app. Let’s assume you want to exclude Logs folder and ashish.pdf file. Then create _backup.filter file and add...

Azure service updates Generally available: Copy Blob support over private endpoints in Azure Storage Azure Storage now supports copying of data between storage accounts using private endpoints. This includes support for the Copy Blob API and utilities such as AzCopy. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Action Required: Upgrade IoT Hub IP filter before 1 February 2022 The upgraded IP filter protects the built-in endpoint and is more secure. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Boards - New enhancements to Delivery Plans 2.0 In this sprint, we're enhancing Delivery Plans 2.0 with new condensed views and rollup information. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates App Service Authentication portal experience is now in public preview A new version of the App Service Authentication/Authorization portal experience is now in preview. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Optional Uptime SLA for Azure Kubernetes Service private clusters Financially backed uptime SLA for AKS private clusters is now available. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Key Vault CSI driver support in Azure Kubernetes Service Azure Key Vault provider for Secrets Store CSI driver allows you to get secret contents stored in an Azure Key Vault instance. Azure Key Vault simplifies the task of securing and using cryptographic keys and other secrets with AKS. With this new feature, you can use the Secrets Store CSI driver interface to mount secrets into Kubernetes pods while benefiting from the increased security and control via the Azure Key Vault. AKS customers can use this new capability to mount enterprise grade external secrets stores to AKS pods, thereby simplifying access to secrets, keys, and certificates in a secure manner. You can now mount secrets stored in Azure Key Vault into Kubernetes pods. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows available for public preview Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows provides the ability to run Linux containers on Windows under the Azure IoT Edge context. This allows you to connect your Azure IoT Edge for Linux instance to your Azure IoT Hub subscription and deploy your custom Linux Edge Modules to Windows devices. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Automatic tracking of click events with Application Insights is now available Azure Monitor Application Insights JavaScript SDK Click Analytics Plugin provides automatic tracking of click events on web pages. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Changes in Azure Monitor Logs for the AzureDiagnostics table is now available Azure Monitor Logs will now allow more than 500 dimensions to be collected to the AzureDiagnostics table by introducing an "overflow" column. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Monitor Network Insights is now generally available Customers now have a single console for all their network monitoring requirements with Azure Monitor Network Insights Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Site Recovery update rollup 53 is now available - January 2021 The latest Azure Site Recovery update provides provides fixes, updated Linux support for disaster recovery of Azure VMs, VMware VMs, and physical servers, and download links for Site Recovery components. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Application Insight in Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West Application Insight, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West regions for customers to collect telemetry and analyze their service health in production environments. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Log Analytics in Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West Log Analytics, a feature of Azure Monitor, is now generally available for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West . Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Automation is now available in Switzerland West Automate tasks across Azure & Non-Azure environment using PowerShell and Python based scripts. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Prevent Shared Key authorization on Azure Storage accounts Enhance secure access to Azure Storage accounts with Prevent Shared Key authorization. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Application Insight in Japan West Application Insight is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health in Japan West. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in UAE Central & Japan West Azure Log Analytics is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in UAE Central & Japan West. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Automatic Cluster Upgrades in AKS AKS simplifies the task of deploying new Kubernetes releases by enabling users to configure automatic cluster upgrades. Click here for more information.

If you have accidently deleted your Azure Web App and looking to restore it, then refer the below steps to restore your Azure Web App. 1. Run the below Powershell to get the details of deleted web app. Get-AzDeletedWebApp -Name <<deleted web app name>> 2. Restore the web app. Restore-AzDeletedWebApp -ResourceGroupName <<Resource Group Name>> -Name <<deleted web app name>> -TargetAppServicePlanName << app service plan>>   You can also check Activity logs of restored web apps as illustrated below. Note: 1. Deleted apps are purged from the system 30 days after the initial deletion. After an app is purged, it can't be recovered. 2. Undelete functionality isn't supported for the Consumption plan. 3. Apps Service apps running in an App Service Environment don't support snapshots. Therefore, undelete functionality and clone functionality aren't supported for App Service apps running in an App Service Environ...