· azure
· timeframe: 2026-04
· tags: Service Fabric, Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2025, retirement, support ending
Service Fabric support for clusters running on Windows Server 2022 ends on March 31, 2027. Customers need to move to Windows Server 2025 before then to stay supported.
· azure
· timeframe: 2026-04
· tags: Azure, Service Fabric, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2025, retirement
Service Fabric support for clusters running on Windows Server 2019 ends on March 31, 2027. Customers need to upgrade to Windows Server 2025 by then to stay supported.
· azure
· timeframe: 2026-04
· tags: Azure App Configuration, Azure Front Door, public preview, client-side configuration, CDN, configuration management
Azure App Configuration now integrates with Azure Front Door in public preview, allowing dynamic configuration to be delivered directly to client-side applications at CDN scale. The update focuses on secure distribution and new flexibility for modern app configurations.
· azure
· timeframe: 2026-04
· tags: Azure Data Box, compliance, security, data erasure, NIST 800-88
Azure Data Box now automatically provides a downloadable Secure Erasure Certificate for each completed order. The certificate verifies the device data was securely erased according to NIST 800-88 Revision 2.
Azure Data Box now supports ingesting data into Azure Files Provisioned v2 storage accounts. Azure Files Provisioned v2 lets customers provision and pay for specific capacity, IOPS, and throughput.
Azure NetApp Files adds a QoS update for cool access on Premium and Ultra service levels. Throughput now adjusts automatically as data moves to cool storage, helping balance performance and cost for mixed hot and cool workloads.
· azure
· timeframe: 2026-04
· tags: Azure AI Language, retirement, deprecation, Microsoft
Microsoft will retire eight Azure AI Language features on March 20, 2027. The notice lists Key Phrase Extraction, Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining, Custom Text Classification, Conversational Language Understanding (CLU), Custom Question Answering (CQA), and other related language features.