Showing results for November 2016 - Azure Government

Nov 29, 2016
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Solution Template support now available in Azure Government Marketplace

Megan Yount (MSFT)
Megan Yount (MSFT)

Last month we announced Azure Marketplace availability in Azure Government, which included individual VM publishing capabilities. Today we’re pleased to announce that solution templates are now supported in the Azure Government Marketplace portal. Solution templates allow you to bundle multiple Azure services and images into a template that ...

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Nov 21, 2016
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Azure Disk Encryption availability for Azure Government cloud customers

Dan E. Price
Dan E. Price

Today, we announce the general availability of Azure disk encryption for Windows and Linux IaaS VMs in Azure Government cloud regions. With this announcement, Azure disk encryption for Windows and Linux IaaS Standard tier VMs (Std A, D, DS, G, GS etc series) is now generally available in all Azure Gov cloud regions to enable customers to protect ...

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Nov 18, 2016
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Azure Government Marketplace Loves Open Source and Bitnami

Aravind Aluri, Product Manager, Azure Government
Aravind Aluri, Product Manager, Azure Government

       Azure Government is excited to expand our partnership with Bitnami via the Azure Government Marketplace beyond the initial offering in Image Gallery. We are happy to announce the first wave of open source images published by Bitnami to the Azure Government marketplace. The first wave of free open source and Bring Your Own License (BYOL...

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Nov 16, 2016
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Azure Government Cloud expands P-ATO scope with addition of five new offerings

Nate Johnson, Sr. Program Manager
Nate Johnson, Sr. Program Manager

We are pleased to announce that Azure’s Government Cloud has expanded its FedRAMP Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) with the addition of five new offerings. Service Bus, Notification Hubs, Site Recovery, StorSimple, and Backup have all received Joint Authorization Board (JAB) approval for addition to Azure Government’s P-ATO at ...

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Nov 15, 2016
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Log Analytics: How Operational Management Suite keeps customers safe and secure on Azure

Brian Christopher Harrison
Brian Christopher Harrison

This is my last post in this series where we have been talking about the Operational Management Suite (OMS) within Azure Government and how it can make customers feel safe & secure. In the previous posts we focused on the Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, and Azure Automation services that help make up the suite. Now I want to spend some ...

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Nov 10, 2016
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Automation Runbooks & DSC: How Operational Management Suite keeps Customers Safe & Secure in Azure

Brian Christopher Harrison
Brian Christopher Harrison

In my last post, I talked about the second of the two services within the Operational Management Suit (OMS) that focuses on Backup & Recovery of your On-Prem or Cloud related infrastructure. However, this is only one piece of the operational management footprint that Public Sector customers' IT departments need to keep their applications and...

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Nov 9, 2016
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Site Recovery: How Operational Management Suite keeps customers safe and secure on Azure

Brian Christopher Harrison
Brian Christopher Harrison

In my last post, I spent some time providing an overview of Operational Management Suite (OMS) and specifically, the Azure Backup service. I tried to focus on the advantages of the suite from the perspective of a potential Azure Government customer as well as the perspective of customers that have already implemented or are implementing a Hybrid ...

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Nov 9, 2016
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Join us: Cybersecurity Best Practices for Cloud in Government — Nov. 16 in DC

Karina Homme
Karina Homme

With billions of connected devices, our digital life is more convenient than ever. But those devices also create opportunities for attackers to move quickly from an initial breach to a major loss; and it can happen within minutes.   Join us for the Microsoft Azure Government DC Meetup on Wednesday, Nov. 16 starting at 6 pm. as we discuss ...

Nov 9, 2016
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Microsoft Signs CJIS Security Addendum with Georgia

Rochelle M. Eichner
Rochelle M. Eichner

Microsoft has now contractually committed to CJIS requirements in 24 states, covering nearly 2/3rds of the US population Microsoft has a long-term commitment to providing law enforcement agencies with cloud services they can trust to help keep them CJIS compliant.  As part of this commitment Microsoft recently signed the CJIS Security Addendum ...

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Nov 8, 2016
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Azure Government supports TIC capabilities

Scott Oxley, Senior Program Manager
Scott Oxley, Senior Program Manager

Federal customers that are part of the Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) initiative are using Microsoft Azure Government. Any Federal government agencies or departments can leverage Azure Government to build applications and services that comply with the TIC initiative. What is TIC?  The TIC initiative is the common name for initiative number ...

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