Effective February 22, 2022, the public preview of Microsoft Azure Cost Management anomaly detection is available for subscriptions. This alerts you to inconsistencies in spending across an Azure Subscription to help you to identify unexpected changes in cost. To check cost anomalies for your
Effective November 1, 2021, the following name changes of Microsoft Azure products take place: Microsoft Azure Defender for IoT Microsoft Defender for IoT Microsoft Azure Sentinel Microsoft Sentinel Microsoft Azure Security Center + Azure Defender Microsoft Defender for Cloud Microsoft Azure Defender for Storage
Effective October 6, 2021, Scope-level management of the Microsoft Azure Hybrid Benefit is available. Azure Hybrid Benefit (AHB) is a licensing benefit that helps you reduce Azure costs by using your on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance (SA). AHB for
Effective September 20, 2021, a new reservation scoping option for Microsoft Azure Reservations is in public preview: Management Group Scope. When you purchase an Azure Reservation, you choose a scope for it which defines where it may be used: within a specific Resource Group,
Effective September 1, 2021, a new Microsoft Intune per-device for Enterprise offer is available, that helps Enterprise organizations manage devices that are assigned to an authenticated user (i.e., not used by multiple authenticated users). Microsoft Intune is the most comprehensive unified endpoint management platform
Effective July 30, 2021, Microsoft PlayFab is available within Azure through Enterprise Agreements (EA). PlayFab is a complete back-end platform for live game development with managed game services, real-time analytics, and LiveOps. PlayFab’s easy-to-use managed service is built on Azure. Customers can only transact
Effective June 7, 2021, Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop is rebranded as Azure Virtual Desktop. There are several new features in preview and a new licensing option including a no-cost promotional period. Users licensed with Microsoft 365 E3/E5/F3/Business Premium, Windows 10 E3/E5 or Windows 10
Effective immediately, Cygna Labs’ Cygna Auditor offers organizations that adopt Microsoft 365 and continue to have on-premises infrastructure an audit and compliance reporting solution that can monitor all activity and changes in a single console. The solution provides comprehensive change auditing and alerts on
Effective November 17, 2020, Microsoft Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux is generally available after a preview phase. This means that customers can bring their own Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server subscriptions to a virtual machine in Azure and just pay
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Effective August 1, 2025, Microsoft offers a 6-month Extended Security Update (ESU) program for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 and Skype for Business Server 2015 and 2019. Microsoft Exchange Server 2016/2019 and Skype for Business Server 2015/2019 reach their end of support on October 14, 2025. The 6-month Extended Security
Effective October 14, 2025, Microsoft Windows 10 reaches end of support. For organizations that must continue using Windows 10 after this date, Microsoft offers the paid Extended Security Update (ESU) program. Customers running Windows 10 in Azure Virtual Desktop will be entitled to free ESUs. Extended Security Updates