Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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In Azure news this week, Lars Klint goes looking far and wide to bring you all the relevant updates! Quite a few this week - Azure SQL Hyperscale now has auto-failover groups in preview; Azure Policy support for Azure Site Recovery is now in GA; additional IP addresses have been added for endpoint monitoring as part of Azure Traffic Manager; Azure Cognitive Services have a public preview of the new Semantic Search feature; and last but not least, Lars goes through some useful Azure IoT Central updates!

0:00 Introduction
0:49 Azure SQL Hyperscale auto-failover groups in preview
2:14 Azure Policy support for Azure Site Recovery in GA
2:40 Azure Traffic Manager endpoint monitoring
3:47 Semantic Search preview
4:21 Azure IoT Central updates

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