Azure Weekly

Issue #7 - 20th December 2014

There were several big Azure announcements this week, particularly for Azure Active Directory;  general availability of the Azure Active Directory Application Proxy, password write-back to on premise directories, public preview of 'administrative units', the ability to manually add SaaS applications supporting password SSO to Active Directory tenants, and public preview of security questions.  Also premium storage went into preview; this is targeted at high performance virtual machine; and provides up to 32 TB of storage @ 50,000 IOPS with less than 1ms read latency.

Scott Guthrie and Vibhor Kapoor have both written summaries of recent Azure updates this week. 

Only one year remains for Azure Storage Service API versions earlier than 2012-02-12. The earliest version of the Azure SDK supporting this API is 2.1. Azure users were emailed a reminder to upgrade their applications before 9th December 2015. An Azure Team blog explains the changes and migration steps.

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  • Nasos Kladkis announces a slew of updates for Azure Active Directory, including the General availability of the Azure Active Directory Application Proxy for both Basic & Premium, password write-back to on premise directories, public preview of 'administrative units', the ability to manually add SaaS applications supporting password SSO, and security questions in public preview.  

  • What are 'administrative units'? There's a video on Channel9 to answer that question

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