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Distributing load across Azure Regions using Azure Traffic Manager

June 16, 2015 Jun 16, 2015 06/16/15
Shawn Weisfeld
NOTE: I implemented the below example using the Azure Government cloud, however this technique will work exactly the same using the public Azure cloud. Before we get started take a look at my other article on how I set up my 3 VMs in a cloud service and wrote a little client app to showcase the load balancing and failover behavior of load ...

Implement automatic failover with load balanced sets to ensure high availability of VM workloads in Azure where only one VM can respond to requests at a time

June 16, 2015 Jun 16, 2015 06/16/15
Shawn Weisfeld
NOTE: I implemented the below example using the Azure Government cloud, however this technique will work exactly the same using the public Azure cloud. If you are using the public Azure cloud take a look at our Application Gateway offering, it does layer 7 load balancing and supports sticky sessions (http://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/...

Configuring High Availability for IaaS Virtual Machines

June 15, 2015 Jun 15, 2015 06/15/15
Shawn Weisfeld
NOTE: I implemented the below example using the Azure Government cloud, however this technique will work exactly the same using the public Azure cloud. To ensure a highly available service you want to run at least two IaaS virtual machines in a load balanced set. In this post we will build a basic stateless ASP.NET workload, distribute it ...

Have AzCopy, Will Travel

June 6, 2015 Jun 6, 2015 06/6/15
SteveK-MS
[Update: Azure uses sparse storage, so only the bits that represent user data are transferred. When transferring disk VHDs that are less than full, this will make the throughput look seemingly much better.] As some of the Azure Government blog posts have eluded to, AzCopy is the preferred way to move files around. Many of us are using Azure ...

Connecting to a Media Services account located in Azure Government

May 21, 2015 May 21, 2015 05/21/15
Shawn Weisfeld
The full details of how to connect are listed in this MSDN article, however the connection information for Azure Government is a bit different then on the public cloud.https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/jj129571.aspx Connecting a two-step process, first you setup your credential and then you create your context. To connect to Azure...

Adding VM Depot Images to Azure Government

May 18, 2015 May 18, 2015 05/18/15
John Harvey (MSFT)
  Azure provides many mechanisms to get the virtual machine of choice loaded into your subscription. The Azure Government gallery includes numerous images from Barracuda, Bitnami, CloudLink, Microsoft, Oracle, and SUSE.  The full list is here.  It is also pretty straightforward to upload your own, or copy one from an ...

Using Azure File Storage with Azure Government

May 12, 2015 May 12, 2015 05/12/15
Shawn Weisfeld
So you have looked at the docs and you would like to give Azure File Storage a try, but you are having trouble connecting it to Azure Government following the instructions posted on the public Azure site? http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/files/ Let me guess you are getting an error that says: “The Remote name could not be ...

Using In-Role Cache in Azure Government

May 11, 2015 May 11, 2015 05/11/15
Art Rask
When planning the deployment of a web application to Azure Government, it is important to consider the Azure services that are currently available in Azure Government and to select the platform components your application will use accordingly.  ASP.NET web applications are, of course, a common deployment scenario.  These applications...

Law Enforcement Information Confidentiality and Integrity on Microsoft Azure Government

April 28, 2015 Apr 28, 2015 04/28/15
Indy Crowley, Principle Program Manager
A revolution in minimization, battery technology, sensors and sophisticated software is fundamentally changing law enforcement. Vast amounts of information enable the reconstruction of a crime scene millisecond-by-millisecond. Data from hundreds of sources can be now correlated, often many miles from the actual scene. This transformation has ...