Breaking Change: Remote access port (SSH/RDP) mapping behavior in API version 2024-07-01 or later

[alfpark]

Description

For Batch pools created with API version 2024-07-01 or later (and all pools created after 30 November 2025), remote access ports such as SSH and RDP are no longer mapped by default for pool endpoints configurations. Pools created from the Azure Portal are also affected by this change.

Unfortunately, this was errantly omitted in our SDK and REST API documentation. We are working on updating the documentation and making the change more visible in Azure Portal.

Impact

Batch pools will no longer have this access enabled by default. If you require continued access and are using the affected API version or later, you must manually enable the pool endpoint configuration to allow access.

Pools created with any API version after 30 November 2025 will no longer have default remote access ports opened on the pool endpoint configuration and all newly created Batch pools will adopt this secure by default posture.

Action that may be needed

Please consult this article for more information on how to enable remote access: Configure node endpoints in Azure Batch pool.