Here, we're gonna list most of the important Microsoft Products announcements in Feb 2020 categorized by Product type.
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SQL Server
General Updates
- On Monday, February 3, Microsoft announced version 8.2 of the Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server has been released.
- On Monday, February 3, Microsoft announced version 17.5 of the Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server has been released.
- On Monday, February 3, Microsoft announced the release of Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server, version 5.8.0.
- On Thursday, February 27, Microsoft announced JBDBC Driver 2.1 for SQL Server, to fix an issue that was reported in the recent 8.2.0 release.
SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2014
SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2017
SQL Server 2019
Microsoft Azure
- On Monday, February 3, Microsoft announced the My Apps portal refresh is now available to everyone.
- On Tuesday, February 4, Microsoft announced several new features were added to mapping data flows this past week.in Azure Data Factory.
- On Wednesday, February 5, Microsoft announced two new public preview features that make Azure AD B2C even more customizable.
- On Wednesday, February 5, Microsoft announced the release of 20.01 Azure Sphere OS for Retail Evaluation.
- On Thursday, February 6, Microsoft announced Azure Service Fabric 7.0 Second refresh release which includes bug fixes, and performance enhancements have started rolling out to the various Azure regions. The updates for .NET SDK, Java SDK, and Service Fabric Runtime are available through Web Platform Installer, NuGet packages, and Maven repositories in 7-10 days within all regions.
- On Sunday, February 9, Microsoft announced the general availability of encryption using a customer-managed key (BYOK) for data at rest in Azure Service Bus.
- On Tuesday, February 11, Microsoft announced you now create the perfect Azure Blended Learning resources into your existing academic curriculum using the Microsoft Learn Catalog API (beta).
- On Thursday, February 13, Microsoft announced extending the authentication mechanism with Event Hubs for Kafka to support the OAuth 2.0 token-based authentication.
- On Monday, February 17, Microsoft announced the Microsoft Information Protection SDK version 1.5 is now generally available.
- On Tuesday, February 18, Microsoft announced the February release of the Azure SDK.
- On Wednesday, February 19, Microsoft announced Azure Sphere 20.01 OS is now available via the Retail feed.
- On Friday, February 21, Microsoft announced the “Download CSV report” button is now generally available in Azure Security Center.
- On Friday, February 21, Microsoft announced the incident settings and alert grouping tab in Azure Sentinel is now in public preview.
- On Monday, February 24, Microsoft announced Azure Sphere is exiting its Public Preview phase and is now a GA (generally available) product.
- On Monday, February 24, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure AD support for FIDO2 security keys in hybrid environments.
- On Monday, February 24, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Database Migration Service support for online (minimal downtime) migrations of PostgreSQL to Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
- On Tuesday, February 25, Microsoft announced, as part of the 20.01 release of the Azure Sphere OS, the release of Power Down, a feature that enables an application to put an Azure Sphere device into an ultra-low-power state from which it can be awoken at a specified time or in response to an event.
- On Tuesday, February 25, Microsoft announced Microsoft partners like Drizti and Varnish Software deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Azure Marketplace.
- On Friday, February 28, Microsoft announced the availability of additional regions for persistent Cloud Shell storage.
Office 365
General Updates
- On Monday, February 3, Microsoft announced the latest update to Microsoft Endpoint Manager includes integration with the Office Cloud Policy Service, giving admins the ability to create and manage Office app policies directly within the Microsoft Endpoint Manager portal.
- On Tuesday, February 4, Microsoft announced some changes to the way pinned applications work on Office.com and in the app launcher.
- On Tuesday, February 4, Microsoft announced the public preview of Conditional Access for the Office 365 suite.
- On Wednesday, February 5, Microsoft announced the Microsoft Graph Security API add-on for Splunk is now supported on Splunk Cloud, in addition to Splunk Enterprise, and includes support for Python 3.0.
- On Tuesday, February 11, Microsoft announced the public preview of the Microsoft Fluid Preview is now available for all Office 365 enterprise customers worldwide.
- On Tuesday, February 11, Microsoft announced a few changes to the plan of the Microsoft Search in Bing browser extension launching on Office 365 ProPlus on Windows devices starting at the end of February.
- On Wednesday, February 19, Microsoft announced Office 365 tenant admins can now customize the Recipient Limits setting from 1 to 1000.
- On Thursday, February 20, Microsoft announced Office What's New management is now generally available.
- On Tuesday, February 25, Microsoft announced a limited preview of automatic sensitivity labeling in Office apps using built-in classifiers.
Microsoft 365
- On Monday, February 3, Microsoft announced an enhanced Settings experience in the Microsoft 365 admin center.
- On Monday, February 10, Microsoft announced a new feature in the Microsoft 365 admin center called the organization switcher, the first of many changes coming for admins who manage multiple organizations.
- On Thursday, February 20, Microsoft announced Microsoft 365 is launching the public preview of a new support service for customers to help deliver live events using Teams, Stream or Yammer.
- On Thursday, February 20, Microsoft announced Advanced Audit for Microsoft 365 is now rolling out.
- On Thursday, February 27, Microsoft announced updates for Microsoft 365 Business and security in February.
OneDrive
Yammer
Visio
Outlook
Planner
Exchange
OneNote
SharePoint
SharePoint 2019
SharePoint 2019 February 2020 CU Build Number:
- Language independent fix: 16.0.10355.20000
- Language dependent fix: 16.0.10355.20000
SharePoint 2016
SharePoint 2016 February 2020 CU Build Numbers:
- Language independent fix: 16.0.4966.1000
- Language dependent fix: 16.0.4966.1000
SharePoint 2013
Other SharePoint Updates
Microsoft Teams
On Friday, February 28, Microsoft announced the latest updates to Microsoft Teams, check What’s New in Microsoft Teams | February 2020
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Microsoft Power BI
On Feb 18, 2020, Microsoft announced the new Power BI Desktop Summary features.
Dataset management
- An incremental refresh is now generally available.
Reporting
Modeling
New DAX Functions
- FirstNonBlankValue
- LastNonBlankValue
Visualizations
- Funnel and pyramid chart by xViz
- OEE Dashboard by 3AG Systems
- Organization chart by MAQ Software
PI VIZpack by PQ Systems
- Histogram
- Individuals control chart
- Individuals and moving range control chart
- Multi-group individuals chart
- X-bar control chart
- X-bar and range control chart
- P-chart
- U-chart
- Updates to Zebra BI tables and charts
Template Apps
- Microsoft 365 usage analytics
- NFL analytics by P3
- Acterys for Quickbooks, Xero & WorkflowMax
Data preparation
- Non-admin support for query diagnostics
Data connectivity
- MicroStrategy connector is now generally available
- FHIR connector is now generally available
- Factset connector
- TIBCO connector
- Jamf Pro connector
- Asana connector
All details mentioned at Power BI Report Server Feb 2020 Feature Summary
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