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Azure PowerShell v6.0.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2021-05-01 // almost 3 years ago

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    Az.Accounts

    • ⬆️ Upgraded Azure.Identity to 1.4 and MSAL to 4.30.1
    • Removed obsolete parameters 'ManagedServiceHostName', 'ManagedServicePort' and 'ManagedServiceSecret' of cmdlet 'Connect-AzAccount', environment variables 'MSI_ENDPOINT' and 'MSI_SECRET' could be used instead
    • Customize display format of PSAzureRmAccount to hide secret of service principal [#14208]
    • ➕ Added optional parameter 'AuthScope' to 'Connect-AzAccount' to support enhanced authentication of data plane features
    • Set retry times by environment variable [#14748]
    • 👌 Supported subject name issuer authentication

    Az.Compute

    • ➕ Added 'Invoke-AzVmInstallPatch' to support patch installation in VMs using PowerShell.
    • ⚡️ Updated Compute module to use the latest .Net SDK version 46.0.0.
    • ➕ Added optional parameter '-EdgeZone' to the following cmdlets:
      • 'Get-AzVMImage
      • 'Get-AzVMImageOffer'
      • 'Get-AzVMImageSku'
      • 'New-AzDiskConfig'
      • 'New-AzImageConfig'
      • 'New-AzSnapshotConfig'
      • 'New-AzVM'
      • 'New-AzVmssConfig'
      • 'New-AzVMSS'

    Az.ContainerInstance

    • ➕ Added new cmdlets: 'Start-AzContainerGroup', 'Stop-AzContainerGroup' [#10773], 'Invoke-AzContainerInstanceCommand' [#7648], 'Update-AzContainerGroup', 'Add-AzContainerInstanceOutput', 'Get-AzContainerInstanceCachedImage', 'Get-AzContainerInstanceCapability', 'Get-AzContainerInstanceUsage', 'New-AzContainerGroupImageRegistryCredentialObject', 'New-AzContainerGroupPortObject', 'New-AzContainerGroupVolumeObject', 'New-AzContainerInstanceEnvironmentVariableObject', 'New-AzContainerInstanceInitDefinitionObject', 'New-AzContainerInstanceObject', 'New-AzContainerInstancePortObject' and 'New-AzContainerInstanceVolumeMountObject'
    • 👌 Supported Log Analytics parameters in 'New-AzContainerGroup' [#11117]
    • ➕ Added support to specify network profile and the name of Azure File Share in 'New-AzContainerGroup' [#9993] [#12218]
    • ➕ Added support to specify environment variables as SecureValue [#10110] [#10640]

    Az.ContainerRegistry

    • 🛠 Fixed username and password issue in 'Import-AzContainerRegistryImage' [#14971]
    • 🛠 Fixed data plane operations (repository, tag, manifest) failed cross registry in single Powershell session [#14849]

    Az.CosmosDB

    • ⚡️ Introduced support for Sql data plane RBAC, allowing the creation, updating, removal, and retrieval of Role Definitions and Role Assignments
      • The following cmdlets are added:
      • Get-AzCosmosDBSqlRoleDefinition, Get-AzCosmosDBSqlRoleAssignment,
      • New-AzCosmosDBSqlRoleDefinition, New-AzCosmosDBSqlRoleAssignment,
      • Remove-AzCosmosDBSqlRoleDefinition, Remove-AzCosmosDBSqlRoleAssignment,
      • Update-AzCosmosDBSqlRoleDefinition, Update-AzCosmosDBSqlRoleAssignment,
      • New-AzCosmosDBSqlPermission

    Az.DesktopVirtualization

    • ⬆️ Upgraded api version to 2021-02-01-preview.

    Az.Functions

    • ➕ Added support in function app creation for Python 3.9 and Node 14 function apps
    • ✂ Removed support in function app creation for V2, Python 3.6, Node 8, and Node 10 function apps
    • ⚡️ Updated IdentityID parameter from string to string array in Update-AzFunctionApp. This is to be consistent with New-AzFunctionApp which has the same parameter as a string array
    • ⚡️ Updated FullyQualifiedErrorId for an invalid Functions version from FunctionsVersionIsInvalid to FunctionsVersionNotSupported
    • 0️⃣ When creating a Node.js function app, if no runtime version is specified, the default runtime version is set to 14 instead of 12

    Az.KeyVault

    • Provided key size for RSA key [#14819]

    Az.Kusto

    • ⬆️ Bumped API version to stable 2021-01-01

    🚧 Az.Maintenance

    • ⬆️ Bumped API version to stable 2021-05-01

    Az.Migrate

    • 🛠 Fixed an issue in Initialize-AzMigrateReplicationInfrastructure.ps1

    Az.Network

    • ⚡️ Updated validation to allow passing zero value for saDataSizeKilobytes parameter
      • 'New-AzureRmIpsecPolicy'
    • ➕ Added optional parameter '-EdgeZone' to the following cmdlets:
      • 'New-AzNetworkInterface'
      • 'New-AzPublicIpAddress'
      • 'New-AzVirtualNetwork'

    Az.RecoveryServices

    • 🛠 Fixed security issue with SQL restore, this is a necessary breaking change. TargetContainer becomes mandatory for Alternate Location Restore.
    • ✂ Removed Set-AzRecoveryServicesBackupProperties cmdlet alias, Set-AzRecoveryServicesBackupProperty is supported.
    • ✂ Removed Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupJobDetails cmdlet alias, Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupJobDetail is supported.
    • ➕ Added support for cross subscription DS Move.
    • 👍 Azure Site Recovery support for VMware to Azure disaster recovery scenarios using RCM as the control plane.

    Az.Resources

    • 🔄 Changed '-IdentifierUris' in 'New-AzADApplication' to optional parameter
    • ✂ Removed generated 'DisplayName' of ADApplication created by 'New-AzADServicePrincipal'
    • ⚡️ Updated SDK to 3.13.1-preview to use GA TemplateSpecs API version
    • ➕ Added 'AdditionalProperties' to PSADUser and PSADGroup [#14568]
    • 👌 Supported 'CustomKeyIdentifier' in 'New-AzADAppCredential' and 'Get-AzADAppCredential' [#11457], [#13723]
    • 🔄 Changed 'MainTemplate' to be shown by the default formatter for Template Spec Versions

    Az.SecurityInsights

    • 🚀 GA release for Az.SecurityInsights

    Az.ServiceFabric

    • ✂ Removed deprecated cluster certificate commands:
      • 'Add-AzServiceFabricClusterCertificate'
      • 'Remove-AzServiceFabricClusterCertificate'
    • 🔄 Changed PSManagedService model to avoid using the properties parameter directly from sdk.
    • ✂ Removed deprecated parameters for managed cmdlets:
      • 'ReverseProxyEndpointPort'
      • 'InstanceCloseDelayDuration'
      • 'ServiceDnsName'
      • 'InstanceCloseDelayDuration'
      • 'DropSourceReplicaOnMove'
    • 🛠 Fixed 'Update-AzServiceFabricReliability' to update correctly the vm instance count of the primary node type on the cluster resource.

    Az.Sql

    • 📚 Updated 'Set-AzSqlDatabaseVulnerabilityAssessmentRuleBaseline' documentation to include example of define array of array with one inner array.
    • ➕ Added cmdlet 'Copy-AzSqlDatabaseLongTermRetentionBackup'
      • Copy LTR backups to different servers
    • ➕ Added cmdlet 'Update-AzSqlDatabaseLongTermRetentionBackup'
      • Update Backup Storage Redundancy values for LTR backups
    • ➕ Added CurrentBackupStorageRedundancy, RequestedBackupStorageRedundancy to 'Get-AzSqlDatabase', 'New-AzSqlDatabase', 'Set-AzSqlDatabase', 'New-AzSqlDatabaseSecondary', 'Set-AzSqlDatabaseSecondary', 'New-AzSqlDatabaseCopy'
      • Changed BackupStorageRedundancy value to CurrentBackupStorageRedundancy, RequestedBackupStorageRedundancy to reflect both the current value and what has been requested if a change was made

    Az.Storage

    • 👌 Supported file share snapshot
      • 'New-AzRmStorageShare'
      • 'Get-AzRmStorageShare'
      • 'Remove-AzRmStorageShare'
    • 👌 Supported remove file share with it's snapshot (leased and not leased), by default remove file share will fail when share has snapshot
      • 'Remove-AzRmStorageShare'
    • 👌 Supported Set/Get/Remove blob inventory policy
      • 'New-AzStorageBlobInventoryPolicyRule'
      • 'Set-AzStorageBlobInventoryPolicy'
      • 'Get-AzStorageBlobInventoryPolicy'
      • 'Remove-AzStorageBlobInventoryPolicy'
    • 👌 Supported DefaultSharePermission in create/update storage account
      • 'New-AzStorageAccount'
      • 'Set-AzStorageAccount'
    • 👌 Supported AllowCrossTenantReplication in create/update storage account
      • 'New-AzStorageAccount'
      • 'Set-AzStorageAccount'
    • 👌 Supported Set Object Replication Policy with SourceAccount/DestinationAccount as Storage account resource Id
      • 'Set-AzStorageObjectReplicationPolicy'
    • 👌 Supported set SasExpirationPeriod as TimeSpan.Zero
      • 'New-AzStorageAccount'
      • 'Set-AzStorageAccount
    • 👉 Make sure the correct account name is used when create account credential
      • 'New-AzStorageContext'

    Az.StorageSync

    • 🗄 Deprecated 'Invoke-AzStorageSyncFileRecall'
      • Customers should instead use 'Invoke-StorageSyncFileRecall', a cmdlet that is shipped with the Azure File Sync agent.
    • ✂ Removed offline data transfer feature in 'New-AzStorageSyncServerEndpoint'.

    📈 Az.StreamAnalytics

    • ⬆️ Bumped API version to 2017-04-01-preview
    • ➕ Added StreamAnalytics Cluster support

    Az.Websites

    • ⚡️ updated 'Set-AzAppServicePlan' to keep existing Tags when adding new Tags
    • 🛠 Fixed 'Set-AzWebApp' to set the AppSettings
    • ⚡️ updated 'Set-AzWebAppSlot' to set FtpsState
    • ➕ Added support for StaticSites.

    Thanks to our community contributors

    • ⚡️ @corichte, Update New-AzVirutalNetworkGatewayConnection Ex 1 (#14858)
    • Hiroshi Yoshioka (@hyoshioka0128)
      • Typo "Azure SQL database"→"Azure SQL Database" (#14883)
      • Typo "Azure SQL managed instance"→"Azure SQL Managed Instance" (#14891)
      • Typo "Azure SQL managed instance"→"Azure SQL Managed Instance" (#14892)
      • Typo "Azure SQL managed instance"→"Azure SQL Managed Instance" (#14902)
      • Typo "Azure SQL managed instance"→"Azure SQL Managed Instance" (#14901)
      • Typo "Azure SQL managed instance"→"Azure SQL Managed Instance" (#14900)
      • Typo "Azure SQL managed instance"→"Azure SQL Managed Instance" (#14898)
      • Typo "Azure SQL managed instance"→"Azure SQL Managed Instance" (#14899)
    • ⚡️ Jay Zelos (@jzelos), Updated example 3 to use correct parameter (#14852)
    • ⚡️ @StevePantol, Update New-AzVMwarePrivateCloud.md (#14996)