Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

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 ...

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...