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Azure Blueprint helps DoD Mission Owners accelerate compliance with L5 security controls

January 23, 2017 Jan 23, 2017 01/23/17
John Molesky
Azure Government Engineering is pleased to announce the release of Azure Blueprint for the DoD Information Impact Level 5 baseline. Azure Blueprint provides DoD customers with a simplified method to understand the scope of their security responsibilities when architecting solutions in Azure, streamlining the path to attain a mission-level ...

How to manage Azure Government directories with Powershell

January 6, 2017 Jan 6, 2017 01/6/17
Kyle Deeds, Program Manager
When utilizing a new directory for your Azure Government environment, one gap commonly encountered is assigning an alternate email address to each user. This attribute is only mandatory for accounts given a Service Administrator role, thus many accounts, including Co-Administrators, do not have the attribute set. Enabling features such as ...

Announcing features for Backup and Site Recovery Services (OMS Suite) with Resource Manager

January 5, 2017 Jan 5, 2017 01/5/17
Sarah Weldon
Azure Government revamps Azure backup and Azure site recovery services to facilitate advanced capabilities for Government cloud users. This update brings various enhancements, summarized in the table below. For more information and technical Documentation on Backup and Site Recovery please see Azure Government Documentation. We welcome ...

Docker announces federal security and compliance controls for Docker Datacenter built on Azure Blueprint

December 15, 2016 Dec 15, 2016 12/15/16
John Molesky
Security and compliance are top of mind for government IT organizations.  It is important for these enterprises to have the ability to deploy applications on a commercial cloud platform that adheres to strong baseline security controls. U.S. Federal agencies and many non-government organizations are dependent on various standards and ...

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...