An Azure App Configuration entry that enables or disables a capability while the app runs, with no redeployment. It covers kill-switch (Switch), gradual or targeted Rollout, and Experiment scenarios.
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Terms in this definition
- App Configuration
Central store in Azure for feature flags and application settings. Its key-values can be made read-only, but those locks differ from Resource Manager locks.
- Capability
Something that a person, organisation or system is able to do.
- App protection policy
A set of Intune rules on managed apps that safeguards organisational data, for example by demanding a PIN or preventing copy-paste and save-as into personal apps. It works whether or not the device is enrolled.
- Agents (classic) API
First-generation Foundry Agent Service API, based on threads, messages and runs. It is deprecated, replaced by conversations and responses, and retires on 31 March 2027.
- SWITCH
Checks one expression against several candidate values, returning whichever result pairs with the match (or a fallback otherwise). Writing SWITCH ( TRUE (), ... ) avoids nested IF chains: whichever condition is first true wins.
Related terms
- Classic Tenant Creation
Feature flag in VCF Automation that a provider has to switch on before creating VM Apps organizations, the classic tenancy model, rather than All Apps ones.