Azure Updates: Sphere 20.0; Azure Government; ISV, partner announcements; Exporting Power BI reports

In a bizarre and unprecedented week for the market, the rapid spread of the SARS-Cov2 coronavirus out of China prompted dramatic action, including lockdowns in Italy, France and Spain, business and university closures, and recommendations around the world for people to stay home. In the Microsoft channel, partners, ISVs, customers, and even Microsoft itself raced to react to sudden directives to work remote and continued to issue information and updates online.

Azure Sphere 20.03 is available for compatibility testing through the retail evaluation feed. Users are asked to contact a technical account manager if they encounter issues. With the goal of enhanced debugging, the Azure Monitor Source Map integration with Blob Storage offers a new avenue for developers to review potential JavaScript errors.

In geographic updates, Application Insights is available for the US Gov Arizona region along with Azure Automation. Among other updates, Microsoft announced new options to export Power BI reports as PDFs, PowerPoints or PNG using a REST call. Simultaneously, the company urged users to fully migrate to TLS 1.2, indicated the addition of a justification field and automatic clean-up of just-in-time rules for Security Center, and

The Azure Government team indicated that it continues to invest ...