What’s new in Azure Stack Technical Preview 2

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Azure Stack Technical Preview 2 has just been released at Ignite!! This release provides new features for both tenants and administrators.

Have a look at the new features:

Key vault

Key Vault provides secure management of your keys and passwords for cloud apps. Allows for auditing and monitoring of key usage by apps and VMs.

iDNS provides internal network name registration and DNS resolution without additional DNS infrastructure.
Virtual Network Gateways provide VPN connectivity options to Azure or other on-premises resources.
User Defined Routes allow you to route network traffic through firewall, security, or other appliances and services.
You can create network resources from the marketplace

Azure Queues enable reliable and persistent service messaging
Storage analytics capture storage performance data. You can use this data to trace requests, analyze usage trends, and diagnose issues with your storage account
Storage service support for common tools and SDKs, such as Azure CLI, PowerShell, .NET, Python, and Java SDK
Storage Account Shared Access Signature enable granular delegation of access to your storage services without having to share your full account key.
Storage services now use Group Managed Service Accounts for strong security with low management overhead

You can deallocate and capture virtual machines, redeploy virtual machine extensions, and resize virtual machine disks.
Export Resource Manager templates from portal. Billing and usage
Billing and consumption APIs expose data on how your services are consumed.
You can capture plans and offers in Resource Manager templates.
Delegated Providers enable resellers to offer your Azure Stack services to their customers.
Reclaim unused tenant resources on-demand.

Azure Stack Regions are a logical unit of scale and management within Azure Stack. In this preview, you can view resource consumption of network, storage, and compute resources by region.
New monitoring capabilities available in the portal and APIs allow you to proactively view and manage alerts on your environment.
System Health Tests automatically test your fabric to ensure services are working as expected

More info can be found here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/azure-stack-architecture/

Thank you,

Alexandre Verkinderen