Management and governance

Windows 10 client machines can now be backed up seamlessly to cloud by Azure Backup service.

I’m happy to announce that the Application Insights Windows SDKs have reached the 1.0.0 milestone. By reaching the 1.0.0 milestone we will take on greater stability around SDK changes and a longer support lifetime.

Announcing public preview for template-based deployments of Compute, Networking and Storage, using the Azure Resource Manager to transform building, deploying and managing large-scale complex applications into simple actions.

Today we are proud to announce a new set of improvements to the Azure Preview Portal. Just like last time, all these enhancements are in response to the great feedback that we have been getting from you.

We’re excited to announce the Preview of a new site called Azure Resource Explorer and encourage you to head over and try it out today!

We are excited to announce the capability to backup IaaS VMs using Azure Backup.

Although 75% of IT professionals are aware that support for Windows Server 2003 is ending July 14, 2015, there’s still a lot of questions about just how urgent the need to move is.

Thanks to the Windows PowerShell Remoting feature, Azure Automation can not only manage your Azure resources at an infrastructural level, but also reach inside VMs and execute commands.

The solution, aptly named Azure Data Center Migration Solution (ADCMS) and licensed under Apache v2.0, provides a highly flexible and extensible method of moving assets from one Azure data center to another.

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.

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