This article addresses a key function built in to Windows 2012 that on first blush may seem like a complex technical networking feature, but that functionality has GREAT implications when extending ...

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Microsoft today announced a public preview of new Azure Active Directory Domain Services support for virtual networks using Azure Resource Manager. Azure AD Domain Services was released late last year ...

A new Network Controller and the same software-defined networking (SDN) stack in the Microsoft Azure cloud are among the significant SDN capabilities coming to Windows Server 2016. Microsoft's quest ...

Just over a week after announcing general availability of Windows Azure's new infrastructure as a service capbilities, the Azure team added more networking, virtual machine and development kit support ...

Application instance lock, Azure Virtual Network Manager and Network Watcher troubleshooting: tools for making the applications you run on Azure more secure. Image: PhotoGranary/Adobe Stock When cloud ...

The integration of Microsoft's Virtual WAN Hub and VMware's SD-WAN is aimed at making it easier for customers to deploy widely distributed business applications. Microsoft and VMware have taken their ...

Microsoft today rolled out infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings on Windows Azure, positioning itself to compete with IaaS provider Amazon Web Services. The general availability of the new ...

At the heart of Microsoft’s Azure adoption strategy is the idea of the hybrid cloud, bridging on-premises datacenters and cloud computing. You don’t need to get rid of your old servers; instead, you ...

To begin the process, it’s necessary to have an Azure account with an active subscription and an existing Azure Virtual Machine. By default, Azure assigns a dynamic private IP address to VMs, allowing ...