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It’s not just you, Microsoft has confirmed that Azure Active Directory service is down for many users around the world. This issue affects Azure users in Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific, however Azure Govement users are not affected from this outage.Users in these regions may experience difficulties when attempting to authenticate into resources which ar...

[embedded content] Microsoft yesterday aounced the preview of new “Azure Service Health”, a new personalized service health dashboard in the Azure portal. This new service will offer guidance and support to customers when issues in Azure services affect their applications. It will also help them i...

The United States Department of Defense has implemented new requirements in DFARS 252.204-7012 to protect against the loss, misuse, unauthorized access, or modification of protected information and the systems that contain that information. Because of this requirements, Defense Industrial Base contractors need assurance that their subcontractors also meet these requirements. Microsoft today highlighted that Azure Govement enables these contractors companies to build systems with assurance that they will inherit controls and processes meeting the broad set of DFARS requirements. Azure Govement implementations meet NIST SP 800-171. Azure Govement provides a single platform that meets the most ...