Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

Azure Backup on Azure Government

October 6, 2015 Oct 6, 2015 10/6/15
chansauman
Azure Backup is a secure, scalable, and reliable solution that protects your application data; It enables you to supplement your current backup solution or replace it entirely without the usual high cost of adding capacity (thus lowering the total cost of backing up your data), while still maintaining backups of your data for many years. It...

How To: Use the Azure CLI with Azure Government

September 29, 2015 Sep 29, 2015 09/29/15
Shawn Weisfeld
UPDATE: official documentation on how to do this can be found here The Azure CLI provides a cross platform command line interface for working with Azure. If you are on Windows you might want to take a look at PowerShell, see Ryan’s post here on how to configure that.   You should ...

Building Media Indexing and Analysis Solutions for Law Enforcement on Azure Government

September 18, 2015 Sep 18, 2015 09/18/15
lamont_harrington@hotmail.com
Introduction In the law enforcement community, the number of media assets continue to grow by the day. From video captured from body worn cameras as well as audio recordings captured from 911 call dispatch and prison inmate phone calls, the prevalence of media assets within the law enforcement community is becoming a critical business asset to...

What type of SQL on Azure is right for me?

August 31, 2015 Aug 31, 2015 08/31/15
Shawn Weisfeld
***** NOTE: take a look at this video, while not Azure Gov specific, it goes into much more depth on this topic: https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/SAIIK-SQL-Server-on-Azure-IaaS-Implementation-Kit/SAIIK-PaaS-vs-IaaS   I get asked this question frequently by customers. Figured I would share my thoughts on the topic with you guys, and some...

Deciding on the right number of Azure Subscriptions for your ISV solution

July 2, 2015 Jul 2, 2015 07/2/15
Shawn Weisfeld
I work with a number of independent software vendors (ISVs) that are building solutions for or moving existing solutions to Azure. After they see our enterprise portal, I commonly get a question on if they need to separate their workload across multiple subscriptions. The answer to this question is complicated and depends a lot on how the ...

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 ...