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New and improved Azure Log Analytics is now available in Azure Government

March 15, 2018 Mar 15, 2018 03/15/18
Sachin Dubey
New and improved Azure Log Analytics is now available in Azure Government. This is biggest upgrade to Log Analytics since its launch and includes new features for powerful search, smart analytics, and even deeper insights. This upgrade provides an interactive query language and an advanced analytics portal, powered by a highly scalable data ...

5 stories from #msbuild that inspired me – and hopefully you – as a developer

June 6, 2017 Jun 6, 2017 06/6/17
Karina Homme
This guest blog post is written by Vishwas Lele from Applied Information Sciences (AIS). AIS provides software and systems engineering services to government agencies and businesses across the United States. They specialize in cloud services, DevOps, custom application development and IT services. For additional information please visit www....

How to prepare for one – The CJIS Security Audit

May 17, 2017 May 17, 2017 05/17/17
Rochelle M. Eichner
In Microsoft's continuous effort to provide resources and guidance to agencies to help them meet their CJIS regulatory requirements, Microsoft collaborated with Alan Ferretti, CJIS Security Analyst and Subject Matter Expert of the CJIS ACE Division at Diverse Computing and former CJIS Information Security Officer (ISO), to ponder the following...

Introducing the Azure Environment Selector Visual Studio extension

April 5, 2017 Apr 5, 2017 04/5/17
Steve Michelotti
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 ...

Building a solution on Azure Government Part I: Cognitive Services

March 9, 2017 Mar 9, 2017 03/9/17
Steve Michelotti
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...

Eight new service offerings added to Azure Government certification scope

December 14, 2016 Dec 14, 2016 12/14/16
Derek Strausbaugh, Principal Program Manager
We are pleased to announce the addition of Azure Resource Manager, Automation, Azure Batch, Log Analytics, Azure Media Services, Policy Administration Service/RBAC, Redis Cache, and Scheduler to certification scope in Microsoft Azure Government. Each of these service offerings has received Joint Authorization Board (JAB) approval for addition...

Azure QuickStart Templates for Azure Government

December 2, 2016 Dec 2, 2016 12/2/16
Ken R. Ward
With the release of Azure Resource Manager on Microsoft Azure Government (MAG), users are now able to provision and deploy applications using declarative templates.  A full listing of publicly contributed templates can be found at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/templates/ . How to use QuickStart Templates in MAG Many of the ...

Log Analytics: How Operational Management Suite keeps customers safe and secure on Azure

November 15, 2016 Nov 15, 2016 11/15/16
Brian Christopher Harrison
This is my last post in this series where we have been talking about the Operational Management Suite (OMS) within Azure Government and how it can make customers feel safe & secure. In the previous posts we focused on the Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, and Azure Automation services that help make up the suite. Now I want to spend ...

Backup: How Operational Management Suite (OMS) keeps customers safe on Azure

October 20, 2016 Oct 20, 2016 10/20/16
Brian Christopher Harrison
Over my first year working at Microsoft, it has been very clear that we are doing everything that we can to really be the go-to Cloud Service Provider (CSP) for customers when it comes to all types of Cloud based services. Now that Azure Government is available, we are trying to do the same for the Public Sector community. However, not ...

Log Analytics and Microsoft Operations Management Suite Portal now available in Microsoft Azure Government 

October 12, 2016 Oct 12, 2016 10/12/16
Sarah Weldon
We are excited to announce the general availability of Log Analytics and the Operations Management Suite Portal in Microsoft Azure Government.   Log Analytics in Operations Management Suite Portal  Log Analytics is a service in Operations Management Suite (OMS) that helps you collect and analyze data generated by resources in your cloud ...