Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

March 2017 - Azure Government

Data security Q&A with John Molesky, Azure Security Engineering

March 30, 2017 Mar 30, 2017 03/30/17
Pishoy Bous, Azure Technical Specialist
In this post, we interviewed Azure Program Manager, John Molesky, from the Cloud Health and Security Engineering team with commonly asked questions regarding data security.  For many customers, moving to the cloud means a change in processes to manage data, including data destruction and spillage. John's answers help address those concerns...

Microsoft Azure IaaS Architecture Best Practices for ARM

March 29, 2017 Mar 29, 2017 03/29/17
CSAJefLan
How to design and build an enterprise infrastructure in Azure using the Azure Resource Manager portal Getting started in Azure is easy to do, and you can have production workloads running in the cloud in very little time. However, there are some essential aspects of the Azure platform that require some forethought and planning. While it is ...

The CJIS Security Policy – Analyzing the 13 Policy Areas: Part I

March 28, 2017 Mar 28, 2017 03/28/17
Rochelle M. Eichner
Better than a sleeping pill or a riveting read? Recently Alan Ferretti and I were talking about compliance for agencies and lamented on the fact that most people malign  the CJIS Security Policy as a good cure for insomnia. It seems you can’t attend a conference where a speaker doesn’t make a joke about it. When in fact, the Policy is ...

Microsoft Signs CJIS Information Agreements with Indiana and Iowa

March 22, 2017 Mar 22, 2017 03/22/17
Rochelle M. Eichner
Microsoft has signed agreements with 28 states – now over 50% of the states are covered representing 70% of U.S. sworn officers. Microsoft contractually committed to the applicable controls of the CJIS Security Policy by signing a CJIS Information Agreements with Indiana and Iowa. This commitment allows CJIS Systems Agencies to background ...

Announcing general availability of Publish to Web in Power BI Pro for Government

March 20, 2017 Mar 20, 2017 03/20/17
Zach Kramer
(image) We are happy to announce the general availability of Publish to Web in Power BI Pro for Government. With Power BI Publish to Web, customers can now easily embed interactive Power BI visualizations online, such as in blog posts, websites, through emails or social media, on any device. They will also be able to  easily edit, update...

Veterans Affairs issues FedRAMP High ATO for Microsoft Azure Government

March 15, 2017 Mar 15, 2017 03/15/17
Matt Rathbun
(image) The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the US government’s largest civilian agency, has issued a FedRAMP High Authority to Operate (ATO) for Microsoft Azure Government. This validates that the Microsoft Azure Government cloud meets all security and compliance standards necessary to handle VA’s most sensitive data, to include ...

Building a solution on Azure Government Part III: Power BI

March 10, 2017 Mar 10, 2017 03/10/17
Steve Michelotti
Now that we’ve done our text analysis using HDInsight, let’s add some high-quality visualizations using Power BI for Azure Government. Let’s first log into Power BI for Azure Gov. Here we are presented with our initial options. Let’s connect to a database by clicking the “Get” button in the “Database” tile: (image) In the ...