{"id":50144,"date":"2021-06-03T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/industry\/blog\/?p=50144"},"modified":"2022-02-10T21:02:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T20:02:04","slug":"a-look-at-the-announcements-from-microsoft-build-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/industry\/blog\/technetuk\/2021\/06\/03\/a-look-at-the-announcements-from-microsoft-build-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at the announcements from Microsoft Build 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full webp-format\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/05\/buildheader.jpg\" alt=\"An ad for Microsoft Build, featuring an image of Bit the Raccoon.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"700\" data-orig-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/05\/buildheader.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/05\/buildheader-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/05\/buildheader-1024x373.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/05\/buildheader-768x280.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/05\/buildheader-1536x560.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/05\/buildheader-330x120.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/05\/buildheader-800x292.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/05\/buildheader-400x146.jpg 400w\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/05\/buildheader.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s digital edition of Microsoft Build has now wrapped up, but don&#8217;t worry if you missed it! The high-quality sessions and keynotes from across the two days are available to watch on-demand via <a href=\"https:\/\/mybuild.microsoft.com\/sessions?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Microsoft Build Session Catalogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The event brought us many surprises, so just in case you couldn&#8217;t tune in live, let&#8217;s walk through some of the announcements.<\/p>\n<h3>Azure AI<\/h3>\n<p>Azure AI is introducing new enhancements to empower developers to significantly reduce time to value in modernizing common business processes, with updates coming to Azure Bot Service, Azure Metrics Advisor and Azure Video Analyzer.<\/p>\n<p>Azure Cognitive Services, a family of AI services to deploy high-quality models as APIs, has also received multiple updates. These include the general availability of document translation and text analytics for health.<\/p>\n<p>There are also two new machine learning capabilities to help customers accelerate deployment of AI models &#8211; Azure Machine Learning managed endpoints, and PyTorch Enterprise on Microsoft Azure.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of updates is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcf1he?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Updates to Azure AI services help accelerate implementation of common business scenarios<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Azure Cognitive Services adds new capabilities for <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcembn?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">document translation<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcf1gq?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">text analytics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcf1hf?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New machine learning updates accelerate deployment of AI models<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Azure Cloud Native and Application Platform<\/h3>\n<p>Azure app services like App Service, Functions, Logic Apps, API Management and Event Grid can now run on Kubernetes clusters anywhere across on-premises, multicloud and edge environments with Azure Arc. With this capability now in preview, customers don\u2019t have to choose between the productivity of platform as a service (PaaS) and the control of Kubernetes because the same app services can run with either model.<\/p>\n<p>Azure Communication Services, the first fully managed communication platform offering from a major cloud provider, now has new intelligent features and functionality to complete customers\u2019 end-to-end communication experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple updates to the Azure analytics tools are now available. These updates bring together data integration, enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics to provide real-time data insights. These analytics and governance capabilities support faster, more reliable insights in an increasingly complex market.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of updates is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcembl?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure app services can now run on Kubernetes clusters anywhere with Azure Arc<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcf1hh?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure API Management offers native support for WebSocket APIs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcembv?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure Communication Services adds UI layer for calling and chat, audio and video recording, plus other calling capabilities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcf1hi?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure Logic Apps updated with flexible hosting options to provide better consistency and integration with developer<\/a><\/li>\n<li>New Azure Marketplace offers give customers more choice and flexibility to run <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcf1hg?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Java EE<\/a> workloads <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcemb1?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in the cloud<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcemb5?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Microsoft Build of OpenJDK gives a new, no-cost option to build Java apps anywhere<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcf1hd?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PowerShell support in Durable Functions helps manage complex Azure resource deployments<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Azure Data<\/h3>\n<p>Multiple updates to the Azure analytics tools are now available. These updates bring together data integration, enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics to provide real-time data insights. These analytics and governance capabilities support faster, more reliable insights in an increasingly complex market.<\/p>\n<p>Updates for Azure Cosmos DB are now available to help developers build and modernize high-performance apps at any scale. Additional features give customers enhanced security, cost-effectiveness, control and flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of updates is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcembm?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Azure analytics and governance updates to improve integration and runtime capabilities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcembt?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Updates for Azure Cosmos DB provide enhanced security, control and more<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcembu?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Database for MySQL add low-cost and free options<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcemb7?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure SQL Database adds ledger capability<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Azure Developer Tools and DevOps<\/h3>\n<p>.NET 6 Preview 4 is now available. .NET is an open-source developer platform created by Microsoft for building different types of apps.<\/p>\n<p>Azure Security Center can now show container scan results found by a GitHub Action so ASC customers can easily incorporate security and compliance into early stages of the software development lifecycle. This feature offers end-to-end traceability, improving remediation time and strengthening an organization\u2019s cloud security.<\/p>\n<p>Visual Studio 2019 16.10, now generally available, comes with new productivity enhancements for .NET developers. These include new IntelliSense features, which automate common workflow tasks, and new tools to improve quality of testing.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of updates is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcf1hl?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.NET 6 Preview 4 offers new ways to build native, cross-platform apps, improved performance, minimal web APIs and more<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcf1hj?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure Security Center now includes container scanning results, powered by GitHub Actions, to help customers scale DevSecOps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcf1hc?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Introducing Developer Velocity Lab to improve developers\u2019 work and well-being<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcembj?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visual Studio 2019 16.10 has productivity enhancements, improved Azure tooling and more<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Azure Hybrid and Multicloud<\/h3>\n<p>Azure Arc, which extends Azure management and services to any infrastructure, has new capabilities, including compatibility with Azure App Services and Open Service Mesh.<\/p>\n<p>There are also new capabilities for Azure Stack HCI, a cloud-connected, hyperconverged infrastructure operating system delivered as an Azure service.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcf1hk?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure Arc updates enable customers to use Azure app services anywhere<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcembq?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure Stack HCI updates enable customers to manage and monitor hybrid cloud workloads<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Azure Infra<\/h3>\n<p>Azure Bicep, now available, is an open-source language for declaratively deploying Azure resources as code that simplifies the authoring experience. It provides concise syntax, better support for code reuse and improved type safety.<\/p>\n<p>Elastic is working with Microsoft to roll out a native Azure experience. Now in preview, the new integration allows users to find, deploy and manage Elastic from within the Azure portal.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of updates is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcembo?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure Bicep v0.4, available June 2021, with new features to improve workflow and validate code<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcembp?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Azure Monitor capabilities to ease onboarding for developers and increase IT efficiencies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcembr?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elastic is now integrated into Azure portal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Azure IoT<\/h3>\n<p>Azure IoT is a collection of services and capabilities that meets customers where they are, from the edge to the cloud. New updates include nesting capabilities to Azure IoT Edge, and the general availability of Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcembs?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure IoT Edge updates allow secure data connection and use of both Windows and Linux<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Power Platform<\/h3>\n<p>Process Advisor, a process mining capability in Microsoft Power Automate that helps identify which activities take the most time and are consistently repeated across an organization, is now generally available.<\/p>\n<p>Users can now embed Microsoft Power BI analytics reports in a Jupyter Notebook. Jupyter Notebook, an open-source development tool featuring documents with live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text, is often used for data visualization and more.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Power BI Premium, which allows analysts and business data users to create and analyse business intelligence reporting, now features streaming dataflows and automatic aggregation.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of updates is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcembg?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New automation insights in Power Automate with Process Advisor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcembf?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New professional development tools for Power Apps help developers deliver low-code solutions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcf1gy?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Power BI Embedded offers integration with Jupyter Notebooks, and Power BI Premium adds Automation APIs to its deployment pipelines capabilities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcf1gv?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Power BI Premium has real-time analytics and big data improvements<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcf1h7?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Power Fx now enables users to build apps using natural language with GPT-3 \u2014 no coding required<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcembk?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Low-code updates and fusion development for Power Platform coming soon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcf1gw?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Power Virtual Agents improves chatbot builder experience<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Windows<\/h3>\n<p>Microsoft Edge will be the best-performing browser on Windows 10 with Microsoft Edge 91. Superior performance is based on Sleeping tabs and Startup boost, features exclusive to Edge.<\/p>\n<p>For Windows developers who want to bring web-based experiences into their native apps, Microsoft Edge WebView2 in Windows UI Library 3 is now production-ready and forward-compatible.<\/p>\n<p>Support for Linux graphical user interface (GUI) apps are now available in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). WSL allows users to run their favourite Linux tools, utilities and apps for developer workflows.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of updates is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcf1gx?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Startup boost and Sleeping tabs raise performance in Microsoft Edge 91<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcembh?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Edge WebView2 and WinUI 3 now generally available<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcf1hb?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project Reunion 0.8 preview release<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcemb8?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New cost-effective Windows on ARM-based PC for developers coming this summer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcf1ha?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Support for Linux GUI apps available in the Windows Subsystem for Linux<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcf1h9?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft adds new capabilities to Windows search box<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AAcembi?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windows Terminal 1.9 preview releases with new feature, Quake Mode<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Useful Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/event?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Join us to see what&#8217;s next for Windows<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/industry\/blog\/technetuk\/2021\/06\/01\/new-azure-features-and-functionality-for-may%e2%80%8b-2021-microsoft-build-edition?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Azure features and functionality for May\u200b 2021 \u2013 Microsoft Build Edition<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tune into <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/learn\/tv?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Learn TV!<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Check out the sessions you might have missed in <a href=\"https:\/\/mybuild.microsoft.com\/sessions?ocid=AID3038246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Session Catalogue<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Follow the conversation on the UK Twitter channels,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSDevUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MSDevUK<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TechNetUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TechNetUK<\/a>, as well as on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MSBuild?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MSBuild<\/a>&nbsp;hashtag!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s digital edition of Microsoft Build has now wrapped up, but don&#8217;t worry if you missed it! 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