Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

Azure Government - Azure Government

SPEC’s CPU2006 benchmarks on Azure

January 7, 2016 Jan 7, 2016 01/7/16
v-ivayal@outlook.com
The CPU2006 suite by SPEC is a complex set of tools and tests that allow the user to measure the performance and throughput of a machine’s CPU. This is done by executing a variety of “tests”, which are executables of real-world scenarios (EG: Compression/decompression of files, Complex quantum chemical computations, 3D Ray ...

Configuring ARM on Azure GC

October 8, 2015 Oct 8, 2015 10/8/15
SteveK-MS
**Update 6-12-2016: We posted additional details on Azure Government and PowerShell here. **Update 4-9-2016: The Azure Module no longer requires switch-mode and as such, these references have been removed. The Azure Government environment is now part of the install and is no longer required to be manually added--these instructions have been ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...