Licensing Reference
Licensing reference materials are continuously updated, highly-detailed entries covering Microsoft licensing terms, procedures, practices and timelines.
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Product Reference
Product reference materials are clear, concise definitions and descriptions of Microsoft's ever-growing catalog of products and services.
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Monitor Roadmap
Azure Monitor offers a central platform for organizations to gather, analyze, and act on monitoring... more
Azure Lockbox Helps Customers Control Data Access by Microsoft
April 13, 2026
Customer Lockbox for Azure (formally Customer Lockbox for Microsoft Azure) is a free feature that...more
Azure Is Increasingly Microsoft's Server Management Hub
Updated: November 28, 2023
Server management capabilities will increasingly require Azure services in the future. Azure Arc extends the...more
Azure is Microsoft’s Focus for Server Management Services
Updated: June 18, 2023
Server management, even for on-premises, will increasingly require Azure services in the future. Azure Arc...more
Azure VM Insights Guest Health to Be Retired
Updated: May 31, 2023
Azure VM insights guest health, a feature of Azure Monitor in preview since Nov. 2020,...more
Azure Monitor Updates Improve Processes, Affect Costs
Updated: May 31, 2023
Azure Monitor is a critical service for avoiding downtime and tuning performance of Azure deployments....more
Azure Monitor: Insights
Updated: November 18, 2020
Azure Monitor offers so-called Insights, which provide specialized monitoring capabilities for specific resources such as...more
Azure Monitor Measures, Tracks, and Reacts
Updated: July 24, 2020
Azure Monitor can provide early warning alerts, respond to outages, and address performance bottlenecks. The...more
Azure Monitor: Metrics and Logs
Updated: July 22, 2020
Azure Monitor collects metrics and log data from within and outside of Azure for monitoring...more
Azure Monitor: Alerts
Updated: July 20, 2020
Azure Monitor’s alerting system helps administrators and developers stay aware of and respond to problems...more
Hybrid Monitoring of On-Premises and Cloud Data Centers
Updated: July 15, 2020
Data-center monitoring is important for limiting system downtime, planning capacity, and ensuring security, whether on-premises...more
Compute, Networking, and Infrastructure Roadmap
