Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Active Directory Password Protection. This new tool allows to prevent users from selecting weak passwords, easy to guess and, therefore, predictable for hackers.
UDS Enterprise is available in Azure Marketplace. Microsoft has verified the compatibility of the VDI and vApp connection broker with its cloud service and has given the green light to the publication of this software in its catalog which includes solutions certified and optimized to run on Azure.
From this platform, users can check the main features of this software, the comprehensive technical documentation about UDS Enterprise, case studies and, in addition, they can request a free trial version.
The new release of UDS Enterprise includes full support for Microsoft Azure. The connection broker development team has been working for the last few months so that platform administrators now can manage and deploy virtual desktops and applications hosted on Azure through UDS Enterprise 2.2.1.
The VDI UDS Enterprise 2.0 broker supports OpenNebula and OpenStack as hypervisors for accessing and managing Windows and Linux virtual desktops.
Microsoft has announced the availability of FreeBSD in Azure marketplace and official support as a guest on Hyper-V, meaning Microsoft Support will answer any question and will fix any issue reported by customers.
The company explains in the official blog that many virtual appliance verndors base their products on FreeBSD operating system, and that’s why they decided to develop FreeBSD 10.3 as a ready-made VM image to run in Azure, as Hyper-V is the virtualization platform for Azure.
Microsoft has announced a range of new products and services at Ignite Conference, which is being held this week in Chicago. Some examples are the next generation of Windows management, Microsoft Office, hybrid cloud infrastructure and SQL Server.
In this post we are going to focus on some the new so called Intelligent cloud solutions by Microsoft:
-Next-generation hybrid cloud. In preview this summer, Microsoft Azure Stack brings the Azure user experience and both infrastructure and platform-as-a-service capabilities into customers’ datacenters. With Azure Stack IT teams can easily blend enterprise applications with modern, distributed applications and services while maintaining centralized oversight. Built on the same core technology as Azure, Azure Stack extends Microsoft’s investments in secure, more flexible software-defined infrastructure.
