The Official Azure Key Vault Team Blog

Your official source for all the latest news and tech tips for Microsoft Azure Key Vault and enlightened workloads.

Announcing Virtual Network Service Endpoints for Key Vault (preview)

[Update: August 31, 2018 - This feature is now generally available. Refer to documentation for most...

Author: Amit Bapat [MSFT] Date: 08/31/2018

Announcing Backup and Restore of Keys, Secrets and Certificates

Hello Folks, Today we're very excited to announce the General Availability of a feature where in you...

Author: Prashanth Yerramilli (MSFT) Date: 07/20/2018

Announcing New Advanced Keys

Hello Folks, Today we're very excited to announce new Advanced key length's that Azure Key Vault...

Author: Prashanth Yerramilli (MSFT) Date: 07/19/2018

Azure Key Vault Recovery Options

[Updated on November 22, 2017] Hello again! It's been a while since our last update. Today we are...

Author: Amit Bapat [MSFT] Date: 05/10/2017

Azure TLS Certificates changes

We know security is a top priority for you, and so is uptime of your applications. To give you...

Author: Rashmi Jha [MSFT] Date: 04/20/2017

Manage certificates via Azure Key Vault

Hello Friends! I am excited to announce built-in support to create and auto-renew certificates for...

Author: Rashmi Jha [MSFT] Date: 09/26/2016

Get started with Azure Key Vault certificates

Introduction Use this tutorial to help you get started with Azure Key Vault Certificates to store...

Author: Rashmi Jha [MSFT] Date: 09/26/2016

Accessing Key Vault from a native application

Hello Folks, So you ask what is native application? In the Azure AD speak, a native application...

Author: Amit Bapat [MSFT] Date: 09/17/2016

Updated: Deploy Certificates to VMs from customer-managed Key Vault

Hello again, We have blogged about this topic in the past. Key Vault and Azure PowerShell have gone...

Author: Amit Bapat [MSFT] Date: 09/14/2016

Manage your key vaults from Azure portal

Hello again! As promised in our last post, we are back with more today! We are really excited to...

Author: Amit Bapat [MSFT] Date: 09/12/2016

August 2016 Updates

Hello again! It's been a while since our last update. Many of you have provided excellent feedback...

Author: Amit Bapat [MSFT] Date: 08/24/2016

Key Vault in Azure China and Azure Government

Hello folks! Happy New Year!! We have been busy working through the end of last year to make Key...

Author: Dan Plastina [MSFT] Date: 01/18/2016

Key Vault logging (preview) now available

[Updated: 5/4/2016 - Fixed "What is logged?"] Hello folks, Today we are announcing public preview of...

Author: Dan Plastina [MSFT] Date: 11/10/2015

SQL Server Connector Update

Hello Folks, Back when we announced Key Vault preview, we also announced availability of a preview...

Author: Dan Plastina [MSFT] Date: 09/08/2015

Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager with Azure Key Vault

Hello This week we bring you another partner blog. Today we will talk about Brocade's...

Author: Dan Plastina [MSFT] Date: 08/10/2015

Deploy Certificates to VMs from customer-managed Key Vault

[Updated: 2015/09/01 - Fixed 'Updating Certificates' section; added Update-AzureVM command that was...

Author: Dan Plastina [MSFT] Date: 07/14/2015

Key Vault is now generally available

[For those new to Azure Key Vault, please take a peek at prior blogs to catch up: Azure Key Vault -...

Author: Dan Plastina [MSFT] Date: 06/24/2015

Azure Key Vault – Step by Step

NOTE: This post was updated on Nov 12 2015 to incorporate breaking changes introduced in the Azure...

Author: Dan Plastina [MSFT] Date: 06/02/2015

REST API Update

Happy Monday, Today's post is about some changes to the Key Vault API based on feedback and...

Author: Dan Plastina [MSFT] Date: 04/20/2015

Welcome to our first partner blog Thus far we have introduced you to the Key Vault, gave you a deep...

Author: Dan Plastina [MSFT] Date: 01/14/2015

Using the Key Vault for SQL Server Encryption

Welcome! In our first blog Azure Key Vault - Making the cloud safer, we introduced you to the Azure...

Author: Dan Plastina [MSFT] Date: 01/12/2015

Azure Key Vault – Making the cloud safer

Welcome! Today we're announcing the public preview of Microsoft Azure Key Vault, a cloud-hosted...

Author: Dan Plastina [MSFT] Date: 01/08/2015