Steve Michelotti

Principal Program Manager, Azure Government Global

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Azure Government HackFest + Training Recap

June 9th, 2017
Our first Azure Government HackFest + Training event is in the books and it was a great event! We were thrilled to see so many enthusiastic developers and IT Pros in Azure Government interested in learning new things and getting even more hands-on with Azure Government. (image)   The first day of the event was marked by several in-...

Expanding Cognitive Services Pilot for Azure Government

May 11th, 2017
Update (05/16/17): Emotion was originally called out a separate API but all functionality is included as part of the Face API.  The standalone Emotion API is not part of our deployment in Azure Government. In March, we announced the initial preview of Cognitive Services in Azure Government. Today we are expanding the initial preview to ...

Announcing the Azure Government HackFest + Training Event – June 7-8 in Washington, DC

April 7th, 2017
(image) Join us! Microsoft Azure Government HackFest + Training, June 7-8 in Washington, DC. Calling all developers and IT pros in the DC-metro area in the Government space! The Microsoft Azure Government team invites you to register and participate in our HackFest + Training event, June 7-8, at the Microsoft location in Chevy Chase, ...

Introducing the Azure Government Video Library

April 6th, 2017
The Azure Government team is pleased to announce our new Azure Government Channel on YouTube. This video library is easily searchable on YouTube and is also now linked directly from our Azure Government Blog. The Azure Government video library was originally hosted on Channel9, but was migrated to YouTube in 2018. This video library will ...

Introducing the Azure Environment Selector Visual Studio extension

April 5th, 2017
Visual Studio has many tools that enable developers to easily interact with Azure. These are tools like the Cloud Explorer for Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio Server Explorer, the main Visual Studio login, and even being able to right-click in the Visual Studio Solution Explorer to deploy a web project to Azure.  However, by default, these ...

Getting Started with Storage in Azure Government

March 15th, 2017
Azure Government uses the same underlying technologies as commercial Azure, enabling you to use the development tools you’re already familiar with. However, Azure Government provides a physical and network-isolated instance of Azure which results in a higher level of compliance and security. As a result of this, we use different physical ...

Building a solution on Azure Government Part III: Power BI

March 10th, 2017
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 ...

Building a solution on Azure Government Part II: HDInsight

March 9th, 2017
In the previous post I went over how to use Cognitive services to get a document translated, let’s do some simple text analytics on the document. Specifically, we’ll get some simple word counts so we can see how frequently the key words are used. We can easily provision HDInsight clusters in the Microsoft Azure Government portal. The ...

Building a solution on Azure Government Part I: Cognitive Services

March 9th, 2017
The Microsoft Azure Government platform is rapidly innovating with new services being introduced all the time. We have recently announced HDInsight and Power BI as GA on Azure Government. These data-centric services unlock a world of possibilities for your organization to process massive amount of data. In this developer-centric walk-through...