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Azure Stack Getting started resources

June 13, 2017 Jun 13, 2017 06/13/17
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This post is provided by Senior App Dev Manager, Guru Satish Piduru with helpful getting started information for Azure Stack.Azure Stack brings the power of Azure, to your datacenter, transforming your datacenter resources into cloud services for maximum agility, all under the control of IT. For developers, Azure Stack provides a unified app ...

Azure Enterprise Agreement changes, transfers, and consolidation

June 12, 2017 Jun 12, 2017 06/12/17
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This post is provided by Senior App Dev Manager, Bryan Towne to provide insight into to consolidation options for Azure deployments as you grow into or out of your current Enterprise Agreement.Within the time that you consume Azure services there will come a point in which you will probably need to transition from your Enterprise Agreement (EA...

A Smart Way to Host Your Training Labs

June 8, 2017 Jun 8, 2017 06/8/17
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In this post, Application Development Manager, Wesam Darwish walks us through how to leverage Azure DevTest – a cost effective, consistent, and streamlined way for quickly deploying a virtual training lab in your environment. At Microsoft Premier Support for Developers, we provide a variety of training options and a wide range of ...

Deploy Azure Quickstarts to Azure Government

June 3, 2017 Jun 3, 2017 06/3/17
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In this post, Application Development Manager, Marcus Fernandez, covers using existing Azure templates with the Azure Government cloud. (image) Some great resources have been developed by the ALM Rangers, MVPs, and Microsoft Product Groups around Azure Quickstarts. Great place to get started should you need a pre-baked infrastructure. ...

A higher level of Premier Support for Developers – Premier Mission Critical

May 28, 2017 May 28, 2017 05/28/17
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In this post, Sr. Application Development Manager, Wyn Lewis-Bevan spotlights Premier Mission Critical Support. So, you have a multi-million-dollar revenue generator that uses Microsoft supported technologies, either on Premise, in the Azure cloud, or both. Because it generates a significant portion of your company’s revenue and is ...

TFS automation – User management

May 27, 2017 May 27, 2017 05/27/17
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In this post, Sr. Application Development Manager, Nandu Muralidharan introduces the TFS API set to help automate administrative tasks associated with managing users in Team Foundation Server. He also shares a set of helper components that he authored to assist developers in this space.   You can check out Nandu’s blog here. This is...

Hardening your web server’s SSL /TLS ciphers

May 25, 2017 May 25, 2017 05/25/17
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In this post, Senior Application Development Manager, Anand Shukla shares some tips to harden your web server’s SSL/TLS ciphers. I recently worked with a customer who had security requirements to disable the weak RC 4 ciphers from their Windows 2008 and Windows 2003 servers.  The process is little different for Windows 2008 R2 ...

DevOps diversité & inclusion

May 23, 2017 May 23, 2017 05/23/17
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Premier Support for Developers is available in various regions worldwide.  Representing our Canadian team, Application Development Manager, Adlene Sifi, provides our first French post on DevOps Diversity and Inclusion. Malgré les années, il demeure difficile de définir clairement ce qu'est DevOps. À la base DevOps était défini ...