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Published • 3 min read

HDInsight Enterprise Security Package now generally available 

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HDInsight team is excited to reveal general availability (GA) of Enterprise Security Package (ESP) for Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop and Interactive Query clusters in HDI 3.6. When enterprise customers share clusters between multiple employees, Hadoop admins must ensure those employees have the right set of accesses and permissions to perform big data operations.

Published • 4 min read

A new way to send custom metrics to Azure Monitor 

By Principal Program Manager, Azure Monitor

In today’s world of modern applications, metrics play a key role in helping you understand how your apps, services, and the infrastructure they run on, are performing. They can help you detect, investigate, and diagnose issues when they crop up. To provide you this level of visibility Azure has made resource-level platform metrics available via Azure Monitor.

Published • 2 min read

Serial console for Azure VMs now generally available 

By Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Cloud for Industry

Earlier this year, we released the public preview of Azure Serial Console for Virtual Machines (VMs). Today we are announcing the general availability of Serial Console and we’ve added numerous features and enhanced performance to make Serial Console an even better tool for systems administrators, IT administrators, DevOps engineers, VM administrators, and systems engineers.

Published • 1 min read

Announcing the EA preview release of management group cost APIs 

By Program Manager II, Microsoft Azure

We are excited to preview a set of Azure Resource Manager Application Program Interfaces (ARM APIs) to view cost and usage information in the context of a management group for Enterprise Customers. Azure customers can utilize management groups today to place subscriptions into containers for organization within a defined business hierarchy.

Published • 6 min read

Strengthen your security posture and protect against threats with Azure Security Center 

By Principal Group PM Manager, Azure Security Center

In my recent conversations with customers, they have shared the security challenges they are facing on-premises. These challenges include recruiting and retaining security experts, quickly responding to an increasing number of threats, and ensuring that their security policies are meeting their compliance requirements.

Published • 2 min read

Announcing private preview of Azure VM Image Builder 

By Principal Program Manager, Azure Compute

Today I am excited to announce the private preview of Azure VM Image Builder, a service which allows users to have an image building pipeline in Azure. Creating standardized virtual machine (VM) images allow organizations to migrate to the cloud and ensure consistency in the deployments. Users commonly want VMs to include predefined security and configuration settings as well as application software they own.