1. Release History (Sitecore Azure)

Some of the issues described on this page contain internal reference numbers. You can use these reference numbers when communicating with Sitecore about a particular issue or feature.

July 31, 2012

Sitecore Azure 2.0.0 rev.120731 is released.

Tested with CMS 6.5.0 rev. 120706 (Update 5).

Change log.

New Features

Added ability to deploy Content Editing Farms. (365534)
Added support for livemode deployments. (365531)
A default Traffic manager policy is now established for all deployed farms. (365563)
State management is now established automatically on all deployed farms. (366970)
The user experience has been updated. (367070, 367532)
Added support for deploying to East US and West US locations.
Added ability to have separate database sets for staging and production slots. (360576)
Environments can now be authenticated through a .publishsettings file which automatically generates and installs a management certificate. (365531)

Important changes

Storage account logging now uses https. (364331)
Added a startup pipeline stage, which can be used to trigger Sitecore events on instance start. This is currently used for rebuilding Lucene indexes at startup, but can be extended to other tasks as needed. (366863)
Support for Extra Small instances has been discontinued.

Issues resolved

Lucene indexes are now supported for Sitecore instances deployed using Sitecore Azure. When publishing to Sitecore Azure Editing or Delivery Farm, Lucene indexes will be automatically created on instance startup. (352937)

Terminology changes

“Hosted Service” is now “Cloud Service” following Microsoft’s June 2012 service renaming.
A Sitecore Azure collection of services (previously called “a Deployment”) is now called an “Editing Farm” or a ”Delivery Farm”.

2. Known Issues

The list of known issues which are present in the current version of Sitecore Azure:

Publishing on an editing farm running in livemode will cause an exception. (369129)
Log viewer on Content Editing farm is disabled. (369567)

3. Configuration File Changes

This section describes the changes to the web.config file and other configuration files between Sitecore Azure releases.