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Solution Template support now available in Azure Government Marketplace

November 29, 2016 Nov 29, 2016 11/29/16
Megan Yount (MSFT)
Last month we announced Azure Marketplace availability in Azure Government, which included individual VM publishing capabilities. Today we’re pleased to announce that solution templates are now supported in the Azure Government Marketplace portal. Solution templates allow you to bundle multiple Azure services and images into a template ...

Azure Government Marketplace Loves Open Source and Bitnami

November 18, 2016 Nov 18, 2016 11/18/16
Aravind Aluri, Product Manager, Azure Government
(image)    (image)    (image) Azure Government is excited to expand our partnership with Bitnami via the Azure Government Marketplace beyond the initial offering in Image Gallery. We are happy to announce the first wave of open source images published by Bitnami to the Azure Government marketplace. The first wave of free open source and...

Azure Government Cloud expands P-ATO scope with addition of five new offerings

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Nate Johnson, Sr. Program Manager
(image) We are pleased to announce that Azure’s Government Cloud has expanded its FedRAMP Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) with the addition of five new offerings. Service Bus, Notification Hubs, Site Recovery, StorSimple, and Backup have all received Joint Authorization Board (JAB) approval for addition to Azure Government’...

Log Analytics: How Operational Management Suite keeps customers safe and secure on Azure

November 15, 2016 Nov 15, 2016 11/15/16
Brian Christopher Harrison
(image) This is my last post in this series where we have been talking about the Operational Management Suite (OMS) within Azure Government and how it can make customers feel safe & secure. In the previous posts we focused on the Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, and Azure Automation services that help make up the suite. Now I want to ...

Automation Runbooks & DSC: How Operational Management Suite keeps Customers Safe & Secure in Azure

November 10, 2016 Nov 10, 2016 11/10/16
Brian Christopher Harrison
(image) In my last post, I talked about the second of the two services within the Operational Management Suit (OMS) that focuses on Backup & Recovery of your On-Prem or Cloud related infrastructure. However, this is only one piece of the operational management footprint that Public Sector customers' IT departments need to keep their ...

Site Recovery: How Operational Management Suite keeps customers safe and secure on Azure

November 9, 2016 Nov 9, 2016 11/9/16
Brian Christopher Harrison
In my last post, I spent some time providing an overview of Operational Management Suite (OMS) and specifically, the Azure Backup service. I tried to focus on the advantages of the suite from the perspective of a potential Azure Government customer as well as the perspective of customers that have already implemented or are implementing a ...

DoD Region Preview frequently asked questions

November 2, 2016 Nov 2, 2016 11/2/16
Derek Strausbaugh, Principal Program Manager
Since announcing our Azure Government DoD Region Preview last week at Microsoft’s Government Cloud Forum, we have had overwhelming interest from customers and partners in participating.  We’ve spent time compiling answers to the most frequently ask questions we’ve heard to help customers and partners understand what this unprecedented ...