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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 Blueprint is now available for the FedRAMP High Baseline

December 13, 2016 Dec 13, 2016 12/13/16
John Molesky
Azure Government Engineering is pleased to announce the release of Azure Blueprint for the FedRAMP High Baseline. As previously announced, the Azure Blueprint program is designed to facilitate the secure and compliant use of Azure Government, providing a simplified way to understand the scope of customer security responsibilities when ...

Copying Azure resource groups between different Azure subscriptions or environments

December 9, 2016 Dec 9, 2016 12/9/16
Jeff Bowles, Principal Consultant, Microsoft Services
Overview The Azure PowerShell module includes the Move-AzureRmResource cmdlet that allows you to move a resource to a different resource group or subscription, but it requires the subscriptions to be in the same tenant. What if you want to copy or move a resource group from a personal subscription (e.g. a free Microsoft Azure Pass)  to a ...

Microsoft signs CJIS Security Addendum with Utah-covering two-thirds of the US population

December 6, 2016 Dec 6, 2016 12/6/16
Rochelle M. Eichner
Meeting the applicable regulatory controls of the CJIS Security Policy is a long-term commitment for Microsoft. We don’t consider it a checkbox, it is a commitment. As part of this commitment Microsoft recently signed the CJIS Security Addendum with Utah--bringing the total states which Microsoft has signed the CJIS Security Addendum to 25...

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 ...

Azure Import / Export – Working with FIPS and other security controls

December 1, 2016 Dec 1, 2016 12/1/16
Chase Dafnis, Premier Field Engineer
I was recently working with one of our government customers that wanted to make use of a newer offering: Azure Import/Export. Now I know what you’re saying… “Chase, this has been out since 2014.” True, this isn’t a new service to Azure, but it was recently accredited and made generally available to the Azure Government space. If you...

Solution Template support now available in Azure Government Marketplace

November 29, 2016 Nov 29, 2016 11/29/16
Megan Yount (MSFT)
Last month we announced Azure Marketplace availability in Azure Government, which included individual VM publishing capabilities. Today we’re pleased to announce that solution templates are now supported in the Azure Government Marketplace portal. Solution templates allow you to bundle multiple Azure services and images into a template ...

Azure Government Cloud expands P-ATO scope with addition of five new offerings

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Nate Johnson, Sr. Program Manager
(image) We are pleased to announce that Azure’s Government Cloud has expanded its FedRAMP Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) with the addition of five new offerings. Service Bus, Notification Hubs, Site Recovery, StorSimple, and Backup have all received Joint Authorization Board (JAB) approval for addition to Azure Government’...

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
(image) 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 ...