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Azure PowerShell is a set of PowerShell cmdlets which assist you in managing your assets in Azure using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and Azure Service Management (RDFE). Azure PowerShell 3.0.0 adds various improvements and fixes across multiple Azure resources; however, in accordance with semantic versioning, the introduction of a new major revision indicates breaking changes in a small subset of our cmdlets. You can install the cmdlets via your favorite installation path indicated in the Azure PowerShell 3.0.0 release notes.

Resource improvements

ApiManagement

Enable support of Importing and Exporting SOAP based APIs (Wsdl Format)

Import-AzureRmApiManagementApi
Export-AzureRmApiManagementApi

Deprecated cmdlet Set-AzureRmApiManagementVirtualNetworks. In place, place used cmdlet Update-AzureRmApiManagementDeployment
Enabled support for ARM based VNETs for configuration Vpn via cmdlet Update-AzureRmApiManagementDeployment
Introduced support for VpnType (None, External, Internal) to differentiate ApiManagement workloads for Internet and Intranet
Fixed PowerShell issues

#2622
#2606

Batch

Added new cmdlet for reactivating tasks

Enable-AzureBatchTask

Added new parameter for application packages on job manager tasks and cloud tasks

New-AzureBatchTask -ApplicationPackageReferences

Added new parameters for job auto termination

New-AzureBatchJob -OnAllTasksComplete -OnTaskFailure
New-AzureBatchJob -ExitConditions

ExpressRoute

Added new parameter service key in return object when provider list all cross connection

Get-AzureCrossConnectionCommand

MachineLearning

Get-AzureRmMlWebService supports paginated response
Remind user Get-AzureRmMlWebService "Name" parameter needs to work with "ResourceGroupName" parameter

Network

Added new cmdlet to get application gateway backend health

Get-AzureRmApplicationGatewayBackendHealth

Added support for creating UltraPerformance sku

New-AzureRmVirtualNetworkGateway -GatewaySku
New-AzureVirtualNetworkGateway -GatewaySku

RemoteApp

Added cmdlets to enable User Disk and Gold Image Migration feature

Export-AzureRemoteAppUserDisk
Export-AzureRemoteAppTemplateImage

SiteRecovery

New cmdlets have been added to support one to one mapping with service objects.

Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryFabric
Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryProtectableItem
Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryProtectionContainerMapping
Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryRecoveryPoin
Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryReplicationProtectedItem
Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryServicesProvider
New-AzureRmSiteRecoveryFabri
New-AzureRmSiteRecoveryProtectionContainerMapping
New-AzureRmSiteRecoveryReplicationProtectedItem
Remove-AzureRmSiteRecoveryFabric
Remove-AzureRmSiteRecoveryProtectionContainerMapping
Remove-AzureRmSiteRecoveryReplicationProtectedItem
Remove-AzureRmSiteRecoveryServicesProvider
Set-AzureRmSiteRecoveryReplicationProtectedItem
Start-AzureRmSiteRecoveryApplyRecoveryPoint
Update-AzureRmSiteRecoveryServicesProvider

Following cmdlets have been modified for to support one to one mapping with service objects.

Edit-AzureRmSiteRecoveryRecoveryPlan
Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryNetwork
Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryNetworkMapping
Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryProtectionContainer
Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryStorageClassification
Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryStorageClassificationMapping
Start-AzureRmSiteRecoveryCommitFailoverJob
Start-AzureRmSiteRecoveryPlannedFailoverJob
Start-AzureRmSiteRecoveryTestFailoverJob
Start-AzureRmSiteRecoveryUnplannedFailoverJob
Update-AzureRmSiteRecoveryProtectionDirection
Update-AzureRmSiteRecoveryRecoveryPlan

HUB support added to Set-AzureRmSiteRecoveryReplicationProtectedItem.
Deprecation warning introduced for cmlets/parameter-sets which does not comply to SiteRecovery service object model.

Breaking changes

Data Lake Store

The following cmdlets were affected this release (PR 2965):

Get-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAcl (Get-AdlStoreItemAcl)

This cmdlet was removed and replaced with Get-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAclEntry (Get-AdlStoreItemAclEntry).
The old cmdlet returned a complex object representing the access control list (ACL). The new cmdlet returns a simple list of entries in the chosen path's ACL.

# Old
Get-AdlStoreItemAcl -Account myadlsaccount -Path /foo

# New
Get-AdlStoreItemAclEntry -Account myadlsaccount -Path /foo

Get-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAclEntry (Get-AdlStoreItemAclEntry)

This cmdlet replaces the old cmdlet Get-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAcl (Get-AdlStoreItemAcl).
This new cmdlet returns a simple list of entries in the chosen path&039;s ACL, with type DataLakeStoreItemAce[].
The output of this cmdlet can be passed in to the -Acl parameter of the following cmdlets:

Remove-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAcl
Set-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAcl
Set-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAclEntry

# Old
Get-AdlStoreItemAcl -Account myadlsaccount -Path /foo

# New
Get-AdlStoreItemAclEntry -Account myadlsaccount -Path /foo

Remove-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAcl (Remove-AdlStoreItemAcl), Set-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAcl (Set-AdlStoreItemAcl), Set-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAclEntry (Set-AdlStoreItemAclEntry)

These cmdlets now accept DataLakeStoreItemAce[] for the -Acl parameter.
DataLakeStoreItemAce[] is returned by Get-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAclEntry (Get-AdlStoreItemAclEntry).

# Old
$acl = Get-AdlStoreItemAcl -Account myadlsaccount -Path /foo
Set-AdlStoreItemAcl -Account myadlsaccount -Path /foo -Acl $acl

# New
$aclEntries = Get-AdlStoreItemAclEntry -Account myadlsaccount -Path /foo
Set-AdlStoreItemAcl -Account myadlsaccount -Path /foo -Acl $aclEntries

ApiManagement

The following cmdlets were affected this release (PR 2971):

New-AzureRmApiManagementVirtualNetwork

The required parameters to reference a virtual network changed from requiring SubnetName and VnetId to SubnetResourceId in format/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ClassicNetwork/virtualNetworks/{virtualNetworkName}/subnets/{subnetName}

# Old
$virtualNetwork = New-AzureRmApiManagementVirtualNetwork -Location <String> -SubnetName <String> -VnetId <Guid>

# New
$virtualNetwork = New-AzureRmApiManagementVirtualNetwork -Location <String> -SubnetResourceId <String>

Deprecating Cmdlet Set-AzureRmApiManagementVirtualNetworks

The Cmdlet is getting deprecated as there was more than one way to Set Virtual Network associated to ApiManagement deployment.

# Old
$networksList = @()
$networksList += New-AzureRmApiManagementVirtualNetwork -Location $vnetLocation -VnetId $vnetId -SubnetName $subnetName
Set-AzureRmApiManagementVirtualNetworks -ResourceGroupName "ContosoGroup" -Name "ContosoApi" -VirtualNetworks $networksList

# New
$masterRegionVirtualNetwork = New-AzureRmApiManagementVirtualNetwork -Location <String> -SubnetResourceId <String>
Update-AzureRmApiManagementDeployment -ResourceGroupName "ContosoGroup" -Name "ContosoApi" -VirtualNetwork $masterRegionVirtualNetwork

Network

The following cmdlets were affected this release (PR 2982):

New-AzureRmVirtualNetworkGateway

Description of what has changed :- Bool parameter:-ActiveActive is removed and SwitchParameter:-EnableActiveActiveFeature is added for enabling Active-Active feature on newly creating virtual network gateway.

# Old
# Sample of how the cmdlet was previously called
New-AzureRmVirtualNetworkGateway -ResourceGroupName $rgname -name $rname -Location $location -IpConfigurations $vnetIpConfig1,$vnetIpConfig2 -GatewayType Vpn -VpnType RouteBased -EnableBgp $false -GatewaySku HighPerformance -ActiveActive $true

# New
# Sample of how the cmdlet should now be called
New-AzureRmVirtualNetworkGateway -ResourceGroupName $rgname -name $rname -Location $location -IpConfigurations $vnetIpConfig1,$vnetIpConfig2 -GatewayType Vpn -VpnType RouteBased -EnableBgp $false -GatewaySku HighPerformance -EnableActiveActiveFeature

Set-AzureRmVirtualNetworkGateway

Description of what has changed :- Bool parameter:-ActiveActive is removed and 2 SwitchParameters:-EnableActiveActiveFeature / DisableActiveActiveFeature are added for enabling and disabling Active-Active feature on virtual network gateway.

# Old
# Sample of how the cmdlet was previously called
Set-AzureRmVirtualNetworkGateway -VirtualNetworkGateway $gw -ActiveActive $true
Set-AzureRmVirtualNetworkGateway -VirtualNetworkGateway $gw -ActiveActive $false

# New
# Sample of how the cmdlet should now be called
Set-AzureRmVirtualNetworkGateway -VirtualNetworkGateway $gw -EnableActiveActiveFeature
Set-AzureRmVirtualNetworkGateway -VirtualNetworkGateway $gw -DisableActiveActiveFeature
Quelle: Azure

12. Oktober 201612. Oktober 2016

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Supreme Court Presses Apple And Samsung On The Value Of Design

Court documents / Apple v. Samsung

Several Supreme Court justices challenged Samsung's argument on Tuesday that the company should owe Apple less than $399 million for infringing on the design of the iPhone. Other justices, though, pressed Apple to show why its damages in the case should be connected to Samsung&039;s profits made from the entire phone — rather than just the part of its exterior that Samsung was found to infringe.

The dispute between the warring phone companies revolves around the $399 million penalty Samsung was ordered to pay Apple, stemming from a lawsuit that began in 2011. A lower court found that Samsung infringed on three of Apple’s design patents: the iPhone’s rectangular face with rounded edges, the phone&039;s bezel edge frame of the phone, and a home screen populated by apps arranged in a grid. The dollar amount comes from the total profits Samsung banked from eleven of its phone models that the lower court found ripped off Apple’s iPhone design. But exactly how much money Samsung must hand over is what the Supreme Court will decide.

Samsung tried to convince the Supreme Court that it shouldn’t have to forfeit all of the profits it generated from the phones, since only some parts of its devices were patented by Apple.

The law that the high court will interpret states that a design patent infringer is liable for “total profits” from the sale of an “article of manufacture.” But the oral arguments focused on pinning down what “article of manufacture” actually means: the justices could determine it refers to the entire phone, or just the components that were patented by the iPhone maker.

Apple, for its part, argued that the design of the iPhone is not merely ornamental — a minor aspect that that can be separated from the phone. The iPhone, when released, was a revolutionary product, Apple maintains, and its iconic design was integral to its success.

Chief Justice John Roberts needled Apple&039;s attorney on the “article of manufacture” point, saying that Apple&039;s design patent applies only to the phone&039;s exterior, not its “chips and wires.” Roberts said that the money awarded to Apple, if that&039;s so, shouldn&039;t be the total profits from the Samsung phones.

Samsung raised the issue of what it claims were problematic jury instructions in the lower court where this dispute began. Samsung argued that the jury should have been told to consider awarding Apple profits based on portions of the phone that could be economically tied to its design patent. Instead, the jury was instructed that if infringement did occur, Apple would be entitled to the total profit of the phone. Justice Anthony Kennedy, one of the more active participants on the dais, began his questioning by pointing to the confusion he might have serving on the jury under Samsung&039;s proposed instructions. “If I was a juror, I simply wouldn&039;t know what to do,” he said.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor echoed justice Kennedy&039;s remarks and said. “The phone could be seen by a purchasing consumer as being just … that rounded edge, slim outer shell.” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asked Samsung to clarify how a jury might determine the value of a phone&039;s design if these component parts of aren&039;t sold separately.

The US Department of Justice also appeared before the court, speaking in favor of neither party, but advocated a multi-pronged approach. According to the lawyer for the government, the justices should consider taking a dynamic, contextual reading of design patent cases, where infringement penalties are determined by the scope of the design and how important a design element is to a product as a whole.

An extended comparison deployed by several justices was to look at this case as if it involved the Volkswagen Beetle, and it&039;s signature look. To determine what role the Beetle&039;s exterior had in people&039;s willingness to buy it, the government argued that expert witnesses from the industry could be brought in, along with consumer surveys.

Tech giants including Facebook, Google, Dell, and eBay are backing Samsung. In a brief to the court, they described Apple&039;s stance as “out of step with modern technology,” pointing to the undue power design patents could potentially wield. Justice Breyer Stephen mentioned this brief several times, and pointedly asked Apple to explain why its Silicon Valley neighbors are mistaken. (While Justice Clarence Thomas did not pose a question, he put his glasses on and appeared to read case material after Breyer referenced the tech companies&039; brief. They leaned closer to each other as Breyer&039;s case booklet was open few moments later, with Breyer appearing to point him to a certain page.)

Samsung and its supporters have argued that a victory for Apple could lead to absurd scenarios, in which a company that infringes on a tiny percentage of another firm’s design could be held liable for 100% of its profits. This is like a car company being forced to hand over its earnings because it copied someone else&039;s design for a back seat cup holder, Samsung has suggested. The company fears that a ruling in favor of Apple would breed a new class of patent troll, especially in the realm of technology where products are made up of thousands of complex parts, in addition to their design features.

Apple, in turn, claims more than 100 design professionals as allies, including Calvin Klein and Alexander Wang. The designers urged the court to consider that, in the minds of consumers, design often represents the product itself.

Samsung v. Apple was argued as both companies face heightened scrutiny from government officials around the world. In August, the executive arm of the European Union ordered Ireland to collect $14.5 billion in unpaid taxes from Apple. Meanwhile, Samsung phones have been exploding. The manufacturer has halted sales of the Galaxy Note7 amid a worldwide recall, following reports of the devices catching fire. The Federal Aviation Administration urged passengers Monday to “power down, and not use, charge, or stow in checked baggage, any Samsung Galaxy Note7″ while aboard an aircraft.

As the justices contemplate the design patent case, the Supreme Court continues to operate with only eight members, following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February. While President Obama has nominated Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy on the court, Senate Republicans have refused to move forward on the nomination. For both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the filling of that vacancy remains a galvanizing campaign issue. A question about how they would choose to fill the vacancy drew sharp contrasts between them during the second presidential debate on Sunday night.

Quelle: <a href="Supreme Court Presses Apple And Samsung On The Value Of Design“>BuzzFeed

12. Oktober 201612. Oktober 2016

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TIBCO DataSynapse comes to the Azure Marketplace

We are pleased to announce the launch of TIBCO DataSynapse GridServer Engine – cloud edition in the Azure Marketplace. Available from today, this collaboration expands on the HPC burst work we have been doing with DataSynapse customers over the last few months to provide an easy deployment method in a cost effective manner.

Over the last 15 years TIBCO Software has been working to empower executives, developers and business users through the integration of applications and ecosystems to analyze data and create real-time solutions.

TIBCO DataSynapse GridServer is a service execution platform for dynamically scaling any application at any time across grid infrastructure. As a result of its improvement in productivity, performance and uptime to existing applications, it is used heavily within Financial Services for parallel computing certain risk calculations. By bringing DataSynapse GridServer Engine 6.2.0 to Azure, Microsoft its extending the possibilities of this platform by providing infrastructure flexibility, increased scalability and cost control.

The pay-as-you-go Marketplace image is intended for those customers that have an existing GridServer DataSynapse installation on-premises and wish to extend the environment beyond its current capacity into Azure.

This solution provides one or more virtual machines in Azure which are configured to connect to the director, the IP and FQDN that are provided at the time the Marketplace offering is purchased. The solution assumes that the customer is either running one or more on-premises managers and has a VPN connection between their Azure account and their managers already set up, or they are running their grid in Azure and already have a virtual network to which they intend to add the engine VM.

TIBCO has provided the option of installing the image on three VM families, A-series, D-series and Dv2. This was intended to give customers a range of price vs. performance and appeal to a number of different workloads.

"Microsoft Azure and TIBCO have worked closely together to deliver the perfect solution that combines Azure's compute resources with TIBCO&039;s Datasynapse Grid Server in a pay-as-you-go model. This enables our investment banking customers to tackle new regulations, such as Basil III&039;s FRTB and meet the large compute demands."

– Mike Kennedy – TIBCO Sr. Director of Engineering

We are excited to see the continued development of DataSynapse GridServer for use with critical compute workloads and enable the benefits of the scale and elasticity of the Azure cloud. Further information on this release can be found here.

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12. Oktober 201612. Oktober 2016

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Law Enforcement Tracked Activists Using Twitter, Facebook And Instagram Data

Recode/via screenshot / Via youtube.com

According to a report from the American Civil Liberties Union, law enforcement officials across the country used special feeds of raw data, including location information, from Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to track and monitor racial protests.

The ACLU claims the social data used by law enforcement was provided by Geofeedia, a social media monitoring company that provides information to hundreds of local police departments. According to public records requests obtained by the ACLU, Geofeedia was granted special access to data feeds from the major social networks, including: access to the Instagram API that includes any location information; access to Facebook's Topic Feed API, which allowed Geofeedia to monitor public posts “including hashtags, events, or specific places;” and searchable access to a database of public tweets from Twitter.

All three social networks attempted to stop or, at least restrict Geofeedia&039;s access to data after the the ACLU reported its knowledge of the partnerships. Facebook and Instagram (which is owned by Facebook) cut off access to the topic feed and the Instagram API. According to a report from The Washington Post, this week Twitter ordered Geofeedia to stop accessing its public database with a cease and desist letter. The company said today that it would block Geofeedia&039;s access to its public feed.

The ACLU report raises concerns over how social media data can be coopted for the purposes of surveillance and stifling civil unrest. Emails obtained by the ACLU show a Geofeedia representative boasting to a law enforcement official that their tools “covered Ferguson/Mike Brown nationally with great success.”

The report also presents a different face for Facebook and Twitter, which have taken numerous public stands in support of Black Lives Matter and activism intended to address police violence and racial inequality.

When reached, a Facebook spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that Geofeedia “only had access to data that people chose to make public. Its access was subject to the limitations in our Platform Policy, which outlines what we expect from developers that receive data using the Facebook Platform. If a developer uses our APIs in a way that has not been authorized, we will take swift action to stop them and we will end our relationship altogether if necessary.”

Geofeedia has not yet responded to a request for comment. Twitter declined to provide one.

Quelle: <a href="Law Enforcement Tracked Activists Using Twitter, Facebook And Instagram Data“>BuzzFeed

12. Oktober 201612. Oktober 2016

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Azure Backup hosts Ask Me Anything session

The Azure Backup team will host a special Ask Me Anything session on /r/Azure, Thursday, October 20, 2016 from 09:00 am to 1:00 pm PDT.

What's an AMA session?

We&039;ll have folks from across the Azure Backup Engineering team available to answer any questions you have. You can ask us anything about our products, services or even our team!

Why are you doing an AMA?

We like reaching out and learning from our customers and the community. We want to know how you use Azure and Azure Backup and how your experience has been. Your questions provide insights into how we can make the service better.We did this last year and we are excited about the questions and feedback we have received and we are doing it again.

Who will be there?

You, of course! We&039;ll also have PMs and Developers from the Azure Backup team participating throughout the day.
Have any questions about the following topics? Bring them to the AMA.

•    Backup of Azure IaaS VMs (both Classic and Resource Manager VMs)
•    Azure Backup Server
•    System Center Data Protection Manager (We announced VMware VM backup support couple of months ago)
•    Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent

Why should I ask questions here instead of StackOverflow, MSDN or Twitter? Can I really ask anything?

An AMA is a great place to ask us anything. StackOverflow and MSDN have restrictions on which questions can be asked while Twitter only allows 140 characters. With an AMA, you’ll get answers directly from the team and have a conversation with the people who build these products and services.

Here are some question ideas:
•    What is Azure Backup? What is the cloud-first approach to backup?
•    How should I choose between Azure Backup Server and System Center Data Protection Manager for my application backup?
•    What are the pros/cons of using VM backup versus File/Folder backup?
•    How does the “Protected Instances” billing model work?
•    Why should I pick cloud over tape for long term retention?
•    What can be protected in Recovery Services vault?

Go ahead, ask us anything about our public products or the team. Please note, we cannot comment on unreleased features and future plans.

Join us! We&039;re looking forward to having a conversation with you!
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11. Oktober 201611. Oktober 2016

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Facebook’s Workplace App Tries To Lure Away Slack Users

Facebook has launched Workplace, a paid chat system for employees to communicate with each other. The service strongly resembles regular Facebook.

You do not have to have an existing Facebook account to use Workplace, as it requires a separate login. Users create profiles with photos and other information just as they would on their personal profiles.

The app, which can be downloaded separately from the App Store or installed on a desktop, includes group chat, a news feed, live video, and direct messaging. It also supports voice and video calling. Employees can chat with one another by joining groups or DMing but will not see their outside-of-work friends in their Workplace news feeds, which only aggregate posts from professional conversations on the Workplace app. Employees can also follow certain groups or their coworkers to receive updates from them.

Image courtesy of Facebook / Via Facebook: workplace

Facebook has priced Workplace at $3 per month per user for companies with up to 1,000 users, $2 per user for up to 10,000 employees, and $1 for more than that. It's free for nonprofits and educational institutions. According to Workplace&039;s website, there are no long-term contracts associated with using the service, nor will the service display ads.

Why did Facebook launch an app for work? The company said in a press release that it saw an opening with the new ways people work: “The workplace is about more than just communicating between desks within the walls of an office. Some people spend their entire workday on the go, on their mobile phone. Others spend all day out in the field, or on the road.” The company repeatedly addressed the press release to “anyone” or “any company” and highlighted the app&039;s already-global reach.

Image courtesy of Facebook / Via Facebook: workplace

By contrast, Slack, Workplace&039;s most visible competitor, offers some services for free, a “Standard” version for $6.70 per user, and a “Plus” version for $12.50 a user. Slack also bills itself as a service for “your small- to medium-sized company or team.” And a service called Slack for Enterprise, presumably for larger companies, is in the works, according to the company&039;s website. Even beyond Slack, office chat technology is a crowded market; Workplace is also competing against Microsoft&039;s Yammer, Salesforce&039;s Chatter, and Hipchat.

Reactions on social media were mixed:

A source at Facebook said that the company will not use data collected from Workplace to target users with advertising, and that companies can control their own data via Facebook&039;s data API. According to Workplace&039;s website, Facebook is in the process of certifying the product under the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework to help companies in the EU comply with EU data transfer requirements.

Recode reports that the social network has been beta testing Workplace for the past two years with roughly a thousand companies. Facebook originally said the service would be live at the end of 2015, also according to Recode.

Quelle: <a href="Facebook’s Workplace App Tries To Lure Away Slack Users“>BuzzFeed

11. Oktober 201611. Oktober 2016

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Azure compliance white paper-o-rama

Following national and regional regulations of the countries your business operates in is not an easy task, yet it is an absolute necessity as businesses across all industries see their customer bases expand geographically. Whether you’re a business or an organization operating within the boundaries of a single country or across the globe, you can confidently move to the cloud and still maintain alignment with regional and international requirements. To help our customers understand how to deploy in Azure while successfully interpreting US and international governance requirements, we produced a series of documents that can be leveraged during your cloud adoption journey.

The following white papers include guidance for US law enforcement, US education, UK G-cloud, and Cloud services in Germany, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Australia. These papers shed light on the nuances we want our customers to be aware of when interacting with government or regional authorities as it relates to adopting Azure cloud services.

Here's a short summary of our most recently produced white papers:

The CJIS Implementation Guidelines for Azure Government, Office 365 Government, Dynamics CRM Online Government white paper is designed to provide insight into the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) security controls applicable to Microsoft Cloud services, and provide guidance to law enforcement agencies on where to access detailed information to assist in CJIS audits. This document provides guidelines and resources to assist CJIS Systems Agencies (CSA) and law enforcement agencies (LEA) in implementing and utilizing Microsoft Government Cloud features, which meet the applicable CJIS certification standards and are consistent with FBI CJIS Security Policy.
The FERPA Implementation Guide for Microsoft Azure white paper helps educational organizations that are considering a move to Azure and are looking for guidance in designing and operating solutions that incorporate security controls to help them meet their compliance challenges. This paper provides insight into how Microsoft meets its compliance obligations on the platform and presents best practices and security principles that are aligned to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001, Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), and operational security for online security.
The Microsoft Cloud Germany for commercial customers in the European Union (EU) and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) white paper provides guidance on how to store and manage customer data in compliance with applicable German laws and regulations as well as key international standards. By leveraging the Microsoft developed data trustee model that provides and enables European customers to move to the cloud, EU and EFTA customers can achieve compliance while utilizing Azure cloud services.
The Microsoft Azure Compliance in the context of Malaysia Security and Privacy Requirements white paper addresses Malaysian regional compliance matters in the context of Malaysia Security and Privacy Requirements. Read this white paper to learn more about the questions faced by customers in Malaysia who are considering a move to the cloud.
The Microsoft Azure Compliance in the context of New Zealand Security and Privacy Requirements white paper is written for IT decision makers in New Zealand who are considering whether to move their data to Microsoft Azure. This paper addresses questions like: Does Microsoft Azure meet New Zealand’s compliance requirements? Where is data stored and who can access it? What is Microsoft doing to protect data? How can a customer verify that Microsoft is doing what it says? New Zealand organizations in need of meeting compliance requirements can read this paper to learn about Azure key security and privacy principles that will enable them to meet their compliance goals.
The Microsoft Azure Compliance in the context of Australia Security and Privacy Requirements white paper is written for Australian organizations looking to navigate their country-specific security and privacy requirements. Protecting data, monitoring and securing access, and meeting customer promises are achieved by Azure through implementing security and privacy principles, enabling Australian customers to leverage our cloud offerings with confidence.
The Microsoft Azure Compliance in the context of Singapore Security and Privacy Requirements white paper addresses the Singapore standards Multi-Tier Cloud Security (MTCS) and how Microsoft complies with the Singapore Personal Data Privacy Act (PDPA). This means both government and commercial customers can have confidence knowing they comply with Singapore legislative and certification requirements when deploying data to the cloud.
The 14 Cloud Security Controls for UK cloud using Microsoft Azure white paper provides customer strategies on moving their services to Azure while meeting their UK obligations mandated by the CESG/NSCS. Customers of the UK can learn how Azure can be used to help address the 14 controls outlined in the cloud security principles. This paper also outlines how customers can move faster and achieve more while saving money as they adopt Azure cloud services.

These white papers represent a set of new guidance created to help customers understand local laws and governance issues, and provide insight into the local regulatory requirements when deploying to the cloud. Check out these papers as well as other useful guidance on the Microsoft Trust Center.
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10. Oktober 201610. Oktober 2016

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Azure App Service improves Node.js and PHP developer experience

In March 2015, Azure App Service entered general availability with the goal of making it easier for developers to do cool things in the cloud. This Platform as a Service (PaaS) for web and mobile developers has seen rapid growth with over 350K active customers and over one million active applications hosted on Azure. In addition to a great experience for .NET developers, it also includes support for the PHP, Node.js, Java and Python stacks as well as a number of open source web products. Today, we’re releasing a preview that introduces native Linux support for Node.js and PHP stacks.

App Service gives web and mobile developers a fully managed experience that takes away the effort of day to day management of the web server and operating system. To deliver that experience, we built on Microsoft’s unique differentiators with Windows Server. While PHP and Node.js have also been supported in App Service since the launch, we’ve heard loud and clear from some developers that having to deal with operating system compatibility quirks, like "path too long" errors with NPM or the web.config files and page rendering pipelines is too cumbersome. The preview now gives you the ability to choose Linux as an alternative to Windows as the base platform, making your web application run on Linux natively instead of Windows and thus making it easier for you to work directly with .htaccess files or avoid using modified extensions or code. This includes streamlined deployment abilities with deployment slots, custom domains, SSL configuration, continuous deployment and horizontal and vertical scaling.

App Service is used heavily by our customers for digital marketing solutions running content management systems (CMS). In fact, WordPress makes up over fifty percent of this usage and another forty percent being other LAMP stack CMS's such as Drupal and Joomla!. All of these require some tweaking to run on Windows. In some cases, plug-ins and extensions are not supported which blocks deployments. With this preview, we have updated our marketplace instance of WordPress to run on Apache/Linux. We plan to have updates for Drupal and Joomla! in the future.

Data solutions on App Service

We are also working closely with web developers on improving your experience in App Service related to data solutions. Over the last few months, we’ve come a long way in our data solution portfolio for Web developers, including revamping our PHP client drivers for Azure SQL, a new version of the JDBC drivers, expanded support for Linux on our ODBC drivers, MongoDB protocol support in DocumentDB and an early technical preview of the new PHP on Linux SQL Server drivers. We will continue working on more data solutions that make it easier for web developers to bring great applications to market on Azure, whatever the language, stack and platform!

Azure offers many solutions for hosting MySQL, including:

ClearDB managed MySQL solutions including ClearDB database and ClearDB Clusters
Marketplace solutions for MySQL, MariaDB and other MySQL-compatible solutions from partners like Bitnami and MariaDB
Community-contributed Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates deploying on VMs
MySQL on virtual machine on Linux or Windows OS

In August we announced MySQL in-app for quickly spinning up MySQL dev/test stacks on App Service. We have a similar MySQL dev/test capability as part of the Linux preview.

Getting started

The preview of App Service on Linux is available today to all Azure customers. To get started, sign in or start a free trial and create an App Service instance. More information available in the App Service documentation.

We would love to hear your feedback on this preview. Please visit our feedback page to get it in the hands of our team.
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