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Office Licensing Service and Azure Cosmos DB part 2: Improved performance and availability

By Dustin Ward

This post is part 2 of a two-part series about how organizations use Azure Cosmos DB to meet real world needs, and the difference it’s making to them. In part 1, we explored the challenges…

Office Licensing Service and Azure Cosmos DB part 1: Migrating the production workload

By Dustin Ward

This post is part 1 of a two-part series about how organizations use Azure Cosmos DB to meet real world needs, and the difference it’s making to them. In part 1, we explore the challenges…

Azure File Sync is removing support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in August 2020

By Dustin Ward

Azure File Sync service will remove support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in August 2020.

Azure Blob Storage enhancing data protection and recovery capabilities

By Dustin Ward

Enterprises, partners, and IT professionals store business-critical data in Azure Blob Storage. We are committed to providing the best-in-class data protection and recovery capabilities to keep your applications running. Today, we are announcing the general…

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets now provide simpler management during scale-in

By Dustin Ward

We recently announced the general availability of three features for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Instance protection, custom scale-in policy, and terminate notification provide new capabilities to simplify management of virtual machine instances during scale-in.…

Use Azure Firewall for secure and cost-effective Windows Virtual Desktop protection

By Dustin Ward

This post was co-authored by Pavithra Thiruvengadam, Program Manager, Windows Virtual Desktop Work from home policies require many IT organizations to address fundamental changes in capacity, network, security, and governance. Many employees aren’t protected by…

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