Technical News

Find out what’s been happening in the Microsoft tech world that may affect you and your applications. From exciting new releases to important end-of-support dates.

26May 23

End of Support for BizTalk Server 2013

End of support for BizTalk 2013 and 2013R2 is upcoming on 11th July 2023. Now is the time to modernise or migrate your workloads.

26Jan 23

Azure Integration Services Landing Zone

There is now a landing zone for Azure Integration Services.

24Jan 23

Azure Database for MySQL – Logic Apps and Power Automate Integration

A new connector is in Public Preview for Azure Database for MySQL.

24Jan 23

Azure Active Directory for SQL Server 2022

Azure Active Directory (AAD) has now been rolled out to include SQL Server 2022.

19Dec 22

A Host of Exciting New Features Arrive to Azure SQL

We use the range of Azure SQL in our apps and we are excited to see quite a lot of new features hit Azure SQL recently.

19Dec 22

Exciting New Features Arriving to Azure Logic Apps (Standard)

As most new integrations are now carried out in the cloud using Azure Integration Services, we are excited to see three very useful new capabilities arrive to Azure Logic Apps (Standard).

14Dec 22

Power BI – Announcement of Paginated Reports and Migration Tool

Exciting recent announcements for Power BI including paginated reports and the Azure Analysis Services to Power BI Premium migration tool.

05Dec 22

.NET MAUI for .NET 7

With the general availability of .NET 7, .NET MAUI is seeing its next major release and a host of improvements.

28Nov 22

SSH File Transfer Protocol Support for Azure Blob Storage

SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) support for Azure Blob Storage is generally available.

22Nov 22

Service Bus Explorer – New Version Out Now

There is a new release of Service Bus Explorer to challenge the community-managed Service Bus Explorer OSS tool.

22Nov 22

.NET 7 Now Generally Available

.NET 7 is now generally available! The list of improvements and new capabilities is enormous. Here we look at an overview and the highlights.

21Nov 22

Query Store Hints Now Available

Query Store hints are now available within SQLServer 2022, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance.

21Nov 22

SQL Server 2022 – Release to General Availability

SQL Server 2022 is now in general availability. It has been hyped as the most Azure-enabled release of SQL Server so far and that certainly holds up.

03Nov 22

End of Support Date Announced for Xamarin

Xamarin will continue to be supported only until May 1st 2024.

26Oct 22

Resource Instance Rules for Access to Azure Storage – Now Generally Available

Resource Instance rules for access to Azure Storage are now generally available.

21Oct 22

Auditing for Azure SQL Database Now Supports User-Assigned Managed Identity

Auditing Azure SQL Database now supports user-assigned managed identity on top of the existing authentication methods: system-assigned managed identity and storage access keys.

13Oct 22

Azure Communication Services Support for Teams Identities

Azure Communication Services provides multichannel communication APIs for adding voice, video, chat, SMS and email…

13Oct 22

Azure Load Testing Has Arrived to UK South

Azure Load Testing is now in preview in UK South! This follows the initial preview in November 2021 that brought us Azure Load Testing and the introduction of these capabilities.

30Sep 22

Azure Data Explorer – Winning on Performance and Cost

Azure Data Explorer has beaten Google BigQuery and Snowflake in a study looking at both cost and performance.

27Sep 22

Free .NET MAUI eBook: Enterprise Application Patterns Using .NET MAUI

Microsoft and a Microsoft MVP have brought to you a wonderful free .NET MAUI eBook exploring Enterprise Application Patterns using .NET MAUI.

19Sep 22

Microsoft Dev Box – Preview

Microsoft Dev Box is a fully managed service, accessed from within the Azure portal. It provides high-performant project-specific workstations in the cloud...