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Virtual Machines - Azure Government

Newly-published VM images available for Azure Government

May 12, 2016 May 12, 2016 05/12/16
Adam Richard
We are pleased to share with you the most-recently published VM images now available for Microsoft Azure Government customers. In the next month you will also see SharePoint and Remote Desktop Host as we continue to bring VM images to Azure Government. As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions to help us improve your ...

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 ...

StorSimple, MFA, SUSE,and Cloudberry updates on Azure Government

June 2, 2015 Jun 2, 2015 06/2/15
John Harvey (MSFT)
 We are excited to announce some of the latest releases to Azure Government.  These releases are in addition to the services we announced in March.   StorSimple StorSimple provides cloud integrated storage solution for customers which includes a hardware appliance on premises that manages storage by keeping active or "Hot" data...

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 ...