Improved connection dialog with support for Entra authentication

Improved Connection Dialog

The connection dialog includes a number of improvements including support for Entra authentication!

Old dialog:

New dialog:

• Added support for Entra authentication.

  • Microsoft Entra MFA
  • Microsoft Entra Password
  • Microsoft Entra Service Principal
  • Microsoft Entra Managed Identity
  • Microsoft Entra Default

• Added Additional “Strict” encryption option.

• Trust server certificate unchecked by default. This is inline with similar changes Microsoft have made to SSMS to improve security.

• Added Host name in certificate option.

• Added option to supply additional connection string options

Support added for monitoring read replicas in Azure

This is now possible by adding ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly to the connection string in the config tool to target the read replica. This would previously be blocked by the config tool as it would detect the read replica as a duplicate connection.

Other

See 3.10.0 release notes for a full list of fixes.