Dec 12, 2022
Exercise 2 – exploring Azure Preview features – Azure Service-Level Agreements
Exercise 2 – exploring Azure Preview features
In this exercise, we will learn where to find information about Azure Preview features.
The following subsections cover how to complete this exercise. They have been segregated into tasks for ease of better understanding.
Task – exploring the Azure updates site
- From a browser, go to https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/?status=inpreview.
- From this URL, you can see all the Azure updates that are in preview.
Task – exploring the Azure Preview portal
3. From a browser, go to https://preview.portal.azure.com.
From this URL, you can view the preview features for the Azure portal; the title of the page shows Preview in brackets so that you know that this is the Preview portal you are exploring. This can be seen in the following screenshot:
Figure 12.3 – Azure portal – Preview features
Task – exploring Preview features
- In the search bar, type preview features and click Preview features from the results list.
- From the Preview features blade, you can explore all the preview features available; you can filter to show only those available for a particular subscription and all the states; that is, if these are not registered or if you have registered them for use.
- From the top toolbar, you can Register for any preview to try out and unregister any that you do not wish to be available.
- You can click on the Documentation hyperlink from the Learn more column or click on a preview feature from the list, which will open a pop-up blade containing more information about this feature. It will also provide the same hyperlink to the documentation that’s relevant to this preview feature; the Register option is also available from this screen. The following screenshot shows the Previews features in the Azure portal:
Figure 12.4 – Azure portal – Preview features
In this exercise, we looked at where to find information about Azure Preview features.
This section covered two hands-on exercises. Now, let’s summarize this chapter.
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