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Azure Retires 20+ Services and APIs This September \u2014 Seven Separate Deadlines, One Table

Microsoft's own 2026 end-of-support page lists more than twenty Azure services, APIs and SDKs shutting down across seven September dates - 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 21 and 30 September 2026. Azure Virtual Desktop (Classic), Azure Functions 1.x, five Computer Vision API versions, three generations of Service Bus control-plane APIs and more, with Microsoft's documented migration path for each.

The September table

Date What retires Microsoft's documented path
Sep 13, 2026 Computer Vision API v1.0, v2.0, v2.1, v3.0 and v3.1 Move to a current Computer Vision API version
Sep 14, 2026 Azure Functions 1.x runtime Upgrade to a supported Functions runtime
Sep 14, 2026 Azure Monitor Data Collector API Migrate to the Logs Ingestion API (custom logs migration)
Sep 14, 2026 Monitoring support for AKS-Engine Monitoring for AKS-Engine ends; see the retirement notice
Sep 15, 2026 Activity logs legacy connector & storage integration API Replaced by diagnostic settings
Sep 15, 2026 Azure Maps Gen1 price tier Move to a current Azure Maps pricing tier
Sep 17, 2026 Azure Maps Render V1 Migrate to a current Render API
Sep 19, 2026 Azure Maps Web SDK Map Controls v1.xx Upgrade the Web SDK map control
Sep 21, 2026 SMART on FHIR proxy in Azure Health Data Services Transition to SMART on FHIR (Azure Health Data Services)
Sep 30, 2026 Azure API for FHIR (Gen 1 offering) Migrate to Azure Health Data Services FHIR service
Sep 30, 2026 Azure Virtual Desktop (Classic) Migrate to current (ARM-based) Azure Virtual Desktop
Sep 30, 2026 Azure FXT Edge Filer Hardware offering retires; plan replacement storage caching
Sep 30, 2026 Azure Container Registry 2017-03-01 (GA) API Move to a current ACR API version
Sep 30, 2026 Azure Maps Web SDK v2.0–v2.0.32 + Service Module Upgrade to a current Web SDK version
Sep 30, 2026 Container Log V1 Transition to the ContainerLogV2 table
Sep 30, 2026 Get AlertSummary API (Azure Monitor) Get Alert Smart Groups API retires; see the retirement notice
Sep 30, 2026 Service Bus control-plane APIs v2014-09, v2015-08, v2016-07 Update Service Bus SDK libraries
Sep 30, 2026 Single URL Ping Test in Application Insights Transition to standard tests for availability testing
Sep 30, 2026 Track 0 and Track 1 Service Bus SDKs + SBMP protocol Update to current-track Service Bus SDKs

What's covered

  • The September table
  • The three that will actually catch people
  • The tail: October and November are not quieter
  • What to do with this list

Full guide with every version, risk scores, and live updates: https://endoflife.ai/article-azure-september-2026-retirements

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