Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

New portal in preview for Azure Government

We are happy to provide a preview of our new Azure Government Portal (http://portal.azure.us). This portal provides an integrated experience allowing users to manage their Azure services and applications. Services included in the preview of the new Azure Government Portal are – Virtual machines (classic), Cloud services (classic), Storage ...

Join us for a Gov SaaSaplooza Meetup featuring Apps.gov July 25 in DC

Learn about how the federal government is tackling the procurement of cloud technologies by building a double sided marketplace, Apps.gov, by joining us at the DC Azure Gov Meetup, Gov SaaSapalooza, Monday, July 25, starting at 5:30 p.m. at the Microsoft office in Washington, DC. We are excited to feature Andrew Stroup, Director of Product ...

Microsoft publishes CJIS Implementation Guidelines to help Law Enforcement Agencies

The Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS) Implementation Guidelines is designed to provide insight into the CJIS security controls applicable to Microsoft Cloud services, and provide guidance to law enforcement agencies on where to access detailed information to assist in CJIS audits. This document provides guidelines and ...

TFS VM Images now available in Azure Government

We are pleased to announce that Microsoft Team Foundation Server VM Images are now available in Azure Government. Team Foundation Server Team Foundation Server provides a set of collaboration tools that work with your existing IDE or editor, so your team can work effectively on software projects of all shapes and sizes. Available Images ...

Running Azure Marketplace solutions in Azure Government

** UPDATE 10/25/2016: The official Azure Marketplace has been launched in Azure Government. Most of the content in this post is now obsolete. View details about the launch here. ** When deploying a virtual machine into Azure you need a source Image. The image is pre-configured generalized copy of the operating system you want to deploy...

Raising the Bar – Personnel Screening

Microsoft recently announced FedRAMP High and Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 4 accreditation. This has raised the security and compliance bar across the Azure Government environment. As part of our commitment to addressing the US government’s cloud needs we strive to provide every customer with an experience that meets the highest ...

Join us at Red Hat’s DevNation Federal 2016 in Washington, DC – July 28

This week, Microsoft is made several announcements highlighting our commitment to customer choice and support for open source technologies, including Monday’s general availability of .NET Core 1.0 and ASP.NET Core 1.0. This release is a huge accomplishment for the entire open source ecosystem – with more than 18,000 developers ...

New high availability checklist now available

We’re happy to announce that we’ve released a new high availability checklist to help you increase the resiliency and availability of your applications in Azure. We know uptime matters to you and Azure gives you great tools and services to help increase your availability. However, we noticed that many people have yet to take full ...

New VM images available in Azure Government

We are happy to share with you the most recently published VM images now available for Microsoft Azure Government customers. You can see the full list of currently available images in our Image Gallery Documentation. In the upcoming month you will see additional VM images published in Azure Government. As always...