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<time> 10/9/2017 2:23:30 PM</time>
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<div id="content"><h2>Support for Azure Managed Service Identity (MSI)</h2>
<a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/msi-overview">Managed Service Identity (MSI)</a> let you assign your azure resources an automatically managed identity that can be used to access other Azure and Azure Active Directory managed resources without ever exposing credentials in code. <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/app-service-managed-service-identity">Learn how to leverage MSI with App Service and Azure Functions</a>.
<img alt="Managed Service Identity in App Service" border="0" src="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/media/app-service-managed-service-identity/msi-blade.png" style="border: 0px currentcolor"/>
<h2>Performance improvements for Azure Functions UX</h2>
We have shipped a few behind the scenes improvement to the Azure Functions UX that improves performance up to 40% in some instances. This should result in snappier navigation and more responsive interactions.
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If you have any questions about any of this features or App Service in general be sure to check our forums in <a href="https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=windowsazurewebsitespreview">MSDN</a> and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/azure-web-sites">Stack Overflow</a>.
For any feature requests or ideas check out our <a href="https://feedback.azure.com/forums/169385-web-apps-formerly-websites">User Voice</a></div>
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