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Azure Blueprint helps DoD Mission Owners accelerate compliance with L5 security controls

January 23, 2017 Jan 23, 2017 01/23/17
John Molesky
Azure Government Engineering is pleased to announce the release of Azure Blueprint for the DoD Information Impact Level 5 baseline. Azure Blueprint provides DoD customers with a simplified method to understand the scope of their security responsibilities when architecting solutions in Azure, streamlining the path to attain a mission-level ...

Azure DoD Regions Accredited at Impact Level 5 and Now Generally Available

January 13, 2017 Jan 13, 2017 01/13/17
Derek Strausbaugh, Principal Program Manager
(image) Earlier today Tom Keane, General Manager, Azure announced that Azure Government is the first and only hyperscale commercial cloud service to be awarded an Information Impact Level 5 DoD Provisional Authorization by the Defense Information Systems Agency. In addition, Azure Government regions dedicated to US Department of Defense ...

How to manage Azure Government directories with Powershell

January 6, 2017 Jan 6, 2017 01/6/17
Kyle Deeds, Program Manager
When utilizing a new directory for your Azure Government environment, one gap commonly encountered is assigning an alternate email address to each user. This attribute is only mandatory for accounts given a Service Administrator role, thus many accounts, including Co-Administrators, do not have the attribute set. Enabling features such as ...

Join us Jan 25 in DC: “How to Jumpstart Your Move to the Cloud – Gov Edition”

January 6, 2017 Jan 6, 2017 01/6/17
Karina Homme
(image) As we enter the New Year, many government agencies continue to resolve to take advantage of cloud computing. However, oftentimes, agencies find that they are stuck, unprepared and seeking ways to help them transition to the cloud.   With these challenges in mind the Microsoft Azure Government DC User Community is kicking off 2017 ...

Announcing features for Backup and Site Recovery Services (OMS Suite) with Resource Manager

January 5, 2017 Jan 5, 2017 01/5/17
Sarah Weldon
Azure Government revamps Azure backup and Azure site recovery services to facilitate advanced capabilities for Government cloud users. This update brings various enhancements, summarized in the table below. For more information and technical Documentation on Backup and Site Recovery please see Azure Government Documentation. We welcome ...

Copying Azure resource groups between different Azure subscriptions or environments

December 9, 2016 Dec 9, 2016 12/9/16
Jeff Bowles, Principal Consultant, Microsoft Services
Overview The Azure PowerShell module includes the Move-AzureRmResource cmdlet that allows you to move a resource to a different resource group or subscription, but it requires the subscriptions to be in the same tenant. What if you want to copy or move a resource group from a personal subscription (e.g. a free Microsoft Azure Pass)  to a ...

Azure Import / Export – Working with FIPS and other security controls

December 1, 2016 Dec 1, 2016 12/1/16
Chase Dafnis, Premier Field Engineer
I was recently working with one of our government customers that wanted to make use of a newer offering: Azure Import/Export. Now I know what you’re saying… “Chase, this has been out since 2014.” True, this isn’t a new service to Azure, but it was recently accredited and made generally available to the Azure Government space. If you...

Solution Template support now available in Azure Government Marketplace

November 29, 2016 Nov 29, 2016 11/29/16
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 ...

Azure Government Marketplace Loves Open Source and Bitnami

November 18, 2016 Nov 18, 2016 11/18/16
Aravind Aluri, Product Manager, Azure Government
(image)    (image)    (image) 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...

Azure Government Cloud expands P-ATO scope with addition of five new offerings

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Nate Johnson, Sr. Program Manager
(image) 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’...