Summary
This improvement enables distributed availability groups on Microsoft SQL Server Standard editions only to establish database replication with Azure resources. Otherwise, distributed availability groups are not supported with Standard editions of Microsoft SQL Server.
More information
This improvement is included in the following cumulative updates for SQL Server:
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SQL Server 2022 RTM
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SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 3 (SP3) (with Azure Connect Feature Pack enabled)
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