#Azure notable updates w48

This is rapidly becoming an Azure & friends update, but anyway I keep my weekly shortlist of notable things to remember

Azure

New #AzureAD Access Panel is now Generally Available! (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2016/11/28/new-azuread-access-panel-is-now-generally-available/)

And long overdue Storesimple virtual devices are now avialable in the ARM portal (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/storsimple-transition-to-newazureportal/) almost. Alas it’s just for virtual devices and not for physical ones and they have not yet started to migrate them plus if you have a mix of physical and virtual you need move back and forth between the old and new experience. Come on Microsoft if you’re serious about storesimple it’s time to move on in a consistent way.

Azure Storage Explorer gets even better (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-azure-storage-explorer-november-update/)

DevTest Labs now supports ARM template deployment (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-devtest-labs-support-for-creating-environment-with-arm-templates/)

Community PowerShell Module for Managing Azure Table Storage Entities (http://blog.tyang.org/2016/11/30/powershell-module-for-managing-azure-table-storage-entities/)

OMS

Azure Site Recovery now supports Windows Server 2016 (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-site-recovery-windows-server-2016-asr/)

System Center

Operations Manager

Bunch of new management packs released:

• Microsoft System Center 2016 Management Pack for Windows Server Operating System 10.0.8.0 (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54303). It basically fixes nano server monitoring
• System Center Management Pack for Distributed Transaction Coordinator on Windows Server 2012 R2 7.1.10100.0 (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41560)
• Microsoft System Center 2016 Management Pack for Windows Defender 7.1.10128.1 (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54081)
• BizTalk Server 2016 Monitoring Management Pack 7.0.2014.0 (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54291)

DPM

Capacity planning calculator has been released (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dpm/2016/11/29/sc-2016-dpm-capacity-planner/)

VMM

Accelerator to define SDN artifacts has been released VMM SDN Express for VMM 2016