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May 2023

May 23

Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for Build

IN PREVIEW

New features now available in PuPr include the ability to evaluate text/image data fairness and enjoy one platform to build, tune, evaluate, deploy, and test AI workflow with LLM. 

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features

March 2023

Mar 29

Public Preview: Storage in-place sharing in Microsoft Purview in additional regions

IN PREVIEW

Storage in-place data sharing with Microsoft Purview public preview is now supported for Azure Data Lake Gen2 and Blob storage accounts in East US, East US2, North Europe, Southcentral US, West Central US, West Europe, West US, West US2

  • Features
Mar 29

General availability: Microsoft Purview DevOps policies for Azure SQL Database

NOW AVAILABLE

Purview DevOps policies can be used to assign permissions needed for performance monitoring and security auditing at scale and without direct connection to the database.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
Mar 7

Public Preview: Data sharing lineage and search for Azure Storage in Microsoft Purview

IN PREVIEW

Data Sharing Lineage is now available in Microsoft Purview for Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 and Azure Blob (Blob) Storage in public preview. Data Sharing Lineage is aimed to provide detailed…

  • Microsoft Purview
  • Services
  • Features

January 2023

Jan 18

Public Preview: Microsoft Purview access policies for SQL Server 2022

IN PREVIEW

Author policies that govern the access to Active Directory users directly from Azure to all your SQL Server 2022 data sources at scale.

  • SQL Server – Azure Arc
  • Services
  • Features

November 2022

Nov 22

Public Preview: Use Azure Quota Rest APIs to manage service limits (quotas)

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2022

Use Azure REST Quota API to manage service limits (quotas), query current usage and quotas, and even update limits for your supported Azure resources, when required.

  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Services
Nov 14

Public preview: Use Azure Quota REST APIs to manage service limits (quotas)

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2022

Use Azure REST Quota APIs to manage the service limits (quotas) for Azure VMs, HPC Cache, Purview services, and networking.

  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Services

July 2022

Jul 25

Public preview: Managed attributes in Microsoft Purview data catalog

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2022

Append organizational metadata to your technical assets by creating and applying managed attributes in the Microsoft Purview data catalog.

  • Features
Jul 25

Generally available: Rich text editor in Microsoft Purview data catalog

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2022

Add rich text formatting to asset and term descriptions in the Microsoft Purview data catalog.

  • Microsoft Purview
  • Features
Jul 1

Public preview: Microsoft Purview data sharing for Azure Storage

IN PREVIEW

Microsoft Purview data sharing for in-place data sharing for Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS Gen2) and Azure Blob Storage is now in public preview.

  • Microsoft Purview
  • Features

June 2022

Jun 8

Public preview: Microsoft Purview access policies for Azure SQL Database

IN PREVIEW

Use Microsoft Purview to manage access to your SQL sources using access policies.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Microsoft Purview
  • Features

May 2022

May 24

Generally available: Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights

NOW AVAILABLE

Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights (in GA July 1, 2022) provides a bird's eye view of your data estate's health.

  • Microsoft Purview
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

Public preview: Microsoft Purview Data Policy for SQL dev ops roles

IN PREVIEW

Microsoft Purview Data Policy enables policies for data access, now including SQL dev ops roles.

  • Microsoft Purview
  • Microsoft Build

April 2022

Apr 11

General availability: Glossary terms in Azure Purview data catalog search

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure Purview data catalog search experience now includes glossary terms in the search results. 

  • Microsoft Purview
  • Features

March 2022

Mar 10

Public preview: Azure Purview workflows

IN PREVIEW

You can now manage approvals for business terms or self-service data access requests for your entire data estate without having to use manual controls like emails or worksheets.

  • Microsoft Purview
  • Features

February 2022

Feb 28

General availability: Asset certification in Azure Purview data catalog

NOW AVAILABLE

Data stewards can now certify assets that meet their organization's quality standards in the Azure Purview data catalog

  • Microsoft Purview
  • Services
  • Features
Feb 22

General availability: Localization available in Azure Purview

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure Purview UX team has localized Azure Purview studio to 18 languages.

  • Microsoft Purview
  • Features

December 2021

Dec 17

Public preview of Snowflake connector for Azure Purview

IN PREVIEW

You can now scan your Snowflake artifacts including streams, columns, stored procedures, and functions/pipes.

  • Microsoft Purview
  • Services
  • Features
Dec 6

Microsoft Defender for Cloud: Public preview updates for November 2021

IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Microsoft Defender for Cloud in November 2021.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Services
  • Security
  • Features

November 2021

Nov 2

Public preview: Azure Purview’s Integration with Microsoft Defender for Cloud

IN PREVIEW

Prioritize sensitive data in cloud workloads using Azure Purview’s Integration with Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

  • Microsoft Purview
  • Microsoft Ignite

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