Managed Microsoft AD release notes

This page documents production updates to Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory. Check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and deprecated functionality.

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July 10, 2023

Feature

June 02, 2023

Feature

Support for joining a Windows Compute Engine VM automatically to a Managed Microsoft AD domain is generally available with the following updates:

  • Added a new managed-ad-force flag to reuse an existing computer account.
  • Improved the existing managed-ad-ou-name flag to specify the path of the custom OU.

For more information, see Metadata.

Using the automated domain join feature, you can also join GKE Windows Server nodes automatically to a Managed Microsoft AD domain.

May 17, 2023

Feature

Managed Microsoft AD is available in the following regions:

  • europe-west12 (Turin)
  • me-central1 (Doha)

For more information, see Deploy domain controllers in additional regions.

November 07, 2022

Feature

Support for schema extensions in Managed Microsoft AD is generally available. Learn how to extend the schema.

October 05, 2022

Feature

Managed Microsoft AD is available in the following regions:

  • europe-southwest1 (Madrid)
  • europe-west8 (Milan)
  • europe-west9 (Paris)
  • me-west1 (Tel Aviv)
  • us-east5 (Columbus)
  • us-south1 (Dallas)

For more information, see Adding and removing regions.

July 21, 2022

Feature

You can use the Google Cloud console to enable LDAPS and configure multi-project access (domain peering) in Managed Microsoft AD.

June 27, 2022

Feature

Support for schema extensions in Managed Microsoft AD is available for Preview. Learn how to extend the schema.

May 30, 2022

May 10, 2022

Feature

Managed Microsoft AD is available in the following regions:

  • australia-southeast2 (Melbourne)
  • europe-central2 (Warsaw)
  • northamerica-northeast2 (Toronto)
  • us-west3 (Salt Lake City)
  • us-west4 (Las Vegas)

For more information, see Adding and removing regions.

February 03, 2022

Feature

Generally available: Managed Microsoft AD now supports the use of tags on domains.

June 21, 2021

June 16, 2021

Feature

Support for LDAPS is now generally available.

January 14, 2021

Feature

Managed Microsoft AD now supports audit logging. This feature is in the Preview stage.