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Today, we’re announcing the release of a new series of VM sizes for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines called the G-series.

This post explains how to use an Azure Automation runbook to push a script or scriptblock to an Azure VM using the Custom Script extension component of the Azure VM Agent.

On November 18, 2014, many of our Microsoft Azure customers experienced a service interruption that impacted Azure Storage and several other services, including Virtual Machines.

We are excited to announce the support for backing up data to Azure from Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 machines, using Azure Backup.

We’re excited to announce the preview of the Microsoft Azure Premium Storage Disks. With the introduction of new Premium Storage, Microsoft Azure now offers two types of durable storage: Premium and Standard Storage.

The Azure Resource Manager enables you to create reusable deployment templates that declaratively describe the resources that make up your application.

Yesterday evening Pacific Standard Time, Azure storage services experienced a service interruption across the United States, Europe and parts of Asia, which impacted multiple cloud services in these regions. I want to first sincerely apologize for the disruption this has caused.

Today, I am happy to announce that you can now use a Docker client directly from your Windows machine to manage containers running on Linux hosts.

This post shows you how to link an ExpressRoute circuit to an Azure VNET owned by a different subscription.

Azure Websites Authentication/Authorization allows you to quickly and easily restrict access to your websites running on Azure Websites by leveraging Azure Active Directory.

Simply place the Deploy to Azure button in your repository’s README.md with a link to our site, and users who click on it will be directed to a streamlined deployment process.

Last week at TechEd Europe we announced the general availability of Network Security groups, a key addition to the Azure Networking stack.