Management and governance

We’re happy to announce a number of updates to our line of Azure Search service tiers.

Configuration management at scale, whether to align machines to organizational policy or to enable continuous deployment, can be a tedious and error-prone process. Azure Automation DSC, now generally available, makes it easy.

We are excited to announce a set of new features allowing you to gain deeper insights on the operations of your Azure resources as well as manage and consume this data in flexible ways.

Today, we are excited to announce the preview of the template export feature in response to requests for the ability to export a resource group as a template.

We added a new feature to make it easier for you to debug template deployment failures.

Today we are pleased to announce Parse Server on Azure Managed Services.

We are very excited to announce a brand new Azure driver for Docker Machine using the new Azure Resource Manager APIs.

Given the high level of security government agencies require, would data in the cloud be as secure as in well-established on-premises systems?

One of the features in the recently released Update 2 of StorSimple was the integration of StorSimple with Azure Site Recovery.

The Microsoft Patterns & Practices group has provided guidance on implementing Elasticsearch and illustrates many of the challenges our customers face and how to work through them.

2016 is a leap year, and that can mean trouble for software applications not carefully coded to prevent bugs.

We’ve developed a new, open-source tool for runbook authoring – the (take a deep breath) Azure Automation PowerShell ISE add-on!