Azure Government

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 ...

Using Event Hub and EventProcessorHost on Azure Government

April 19, 2015 Apr 19, 2015 04/19/15

Ryan McIntyre

(Cross-posted from http://blog.randomdust.com) There are few needs which apply to almost every industry when it comes to building software and solutions to meet the needs of that industry. Manufacturing, healthcare, industrial, education, home automation, military and public safety (to name a few) all have a need to collect data from hundreds/...

Configuring Azure Government Virtual Machine RDP file for USB mapping

April 14, 2015 Apr 14, 2015 04/14/15

chansauman

When creating Virtual Machines (VMs) on Azure Government you may want to map your local drives ports so that new drives (such as USBs) can connect to your VM. You can do this by configuring your VMs RDP file to accept existing and/or no ports. To do this - first login to the Azure Government management portal (manage.windowsazure.us) and ...

Creating user accounts and configuring them as co-administrators

April 1, 2015 Apr 1, 2015 04/1/15

chansauman

One of the first things to do on Azure Government, once you've been provisioned and logged in, is to begin giving access to the subscription to additional people on your development team. This is easy to do - but the question between "User Account" and "Administrator" often comes up. In the Cloud - the concepts of Identity and Compute (which ...

Get Started with PowerShell on Azure Government

March 24, 2015 Mar 24, 2015 03/24/15

Ryan McIntyre

**Update 6-12-2016: We posted current details on Azure Government and PowerShell here. (Cross posted from my personal blog) Many folks using Azure Government probably have a subscription or two on public Azure. If you’re bouncing between environments and using PowerShell on each, it could become cumbersome to switch between them. This post...

Welcome to the Azure Government Blog

March 17, 2015 Mar 17, 2015 03/17/15

John Harvey (MSFT)

Welcome to the Azure Government Blog.  With the release of Azure Government last year we continue to hear amazing success stories of how Azure Government is helping Agencies be more agile with their development and testing capabilities, how police are aggressively leveraging the environment to help usher in a new way of policing...

Connect Visual Studio to MS Azure Government

March 16, 2015 Mar 16, 2015 03/16/15

SteveK-MS

Update: For the latest documentation on connecting via Visual Studio.  Check out the Azure Environment Selector for VS 2017! The Visual Studio (VS) IDE is a powerful development tool. Coupled with the massive list of development tools it provides, Visual Studio also allows servers to be managed.  This capability provides an end-to-end ...