Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

How to optimize your cloud strategy

December 13, 2017 Dec 13, 2017 12/13/17

Karina Homme

(image) In recent years, U.S. government agencies have moved to the cloud faster than private corporations in an attempt to replace aging systems and improve organizational efficiency.[1] Cloud adoption can transform how IT departments at federal civilian agencies operate, deliver services, and share information. To maximize the value and ...

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure on Azure Government

December 7, 2017 Dec 7, 2017 12/7/17

Steve Michelotti

In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti sits down with Steve Downs from the Azure Government Engineering team to discuss Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) on Azure Government. What is VDI? How is it different from traditional Remote Desktop? Why do customers use VDI and, most importantly, how does VDI help ...

Strengthen cybersecurity with an enterprise risk mindset

December 6, 2017 Dec 6, 2017 12/6/17

Karina Homme

(image) Cybersecurity is one of the biggest issues facing federal Chief Information Officers (CIOs). Evolving security is recognized across the board as an important challenge that needs to be addressed swiftly and in a continuous fashion. Security is always top of mind for CIOs, and one of the major challenges of introducing new ...

Web App Easy Auth Configuration using PowerShell

December 6, 2017 Dec 6, 2017 12/6/17

Michael S. Hansen

In a previous video with an associated blog post, we discussed the different forms of identity in Azure Government and how Web Apps written in .NET can be configured to use Azure Active Directory (AAD) identities in either Azure Government or Azure Commercial (Public). In that discussion and walk-through, the Azure portal was used to configure...

Microsoft Tech Summit is going government – register today!

December 6, 2017 Dec 6, 2017 12/6/17

Azure Gov Team

(image) Announcing the Microsoft Government Tech Summit coming to Washington DC March 5-6, 2018! Build your cloud skills during this free technical learning event for IT professionals and developers. We’re hitting the road with our top engineers to bring you two days of in-depth sessions, networking opportunities, industry insights, and ...

Conquering the Upfront Cost Barrier to IoT

December 5, 2017 Dec 5, 2017 12/5/17

Karina Homme

(image) According to a recent report from the International Data Center (IDC), How government organizations look at IoT, the top three roadblocks to IoT deployment are upfront costs, security, and privacy.[1] Over 30 billion devices are estimated to be connected to the internet by 2020.[2] The Internet of Things (IoT) can offer government...

HDInsight Extension for VS Code now available in Azure Government

December 4, 2017 Dec 4, 2017 12/4/17

Yujin Hong

We are excited to announce that the HDInsight Extension tool for VS Code has been extended to the Azure Government environment. HDInsight developers now can easily access their Azure Government subscription through this extension with a few clicks. HDInsight Tools for VS Code supports Hive Interactive Query, Hive Batch as well as PySpark ...

Migrate user workspaces to Azure Government with Citrix Xenapp/XenDesktop 7.16

December 4, 2017 Dec 4, 2017 12/4/17

Steve Downs

In October, we announced that Citrix Cloud included the ability to provision non-persistent user workspaces into Azure Government and today I’m pleased to share that Citrix’s traditional on-premises XenApp and XenDesktop products also includes that capability – with the release of XenApp/XenDesktop 7.16. Provisioning user workspaces...

Harnessing the intelligent cloud for Defense

November 30, 2017 Nov 30, 2017 11/30/17

Derek Strausbaugh, Principal Program Manager

(image) The rapid evolution of technology and the exploitation of data, machine intelligence and on-demand computing power is changing the landscape of defense. This is leading to a massive shift in how the United States Department of Defense (DoD) is looking to adopt cloud computing services to rapidly innovate, extend its mission ...