Your Azure account will have Azure Activity logs exported. These logs are retrieved by Splunk on campus. To start, your account will be assigned a 10.237.x.x /24 network that will be divided into one /25 subnet, one /26 subnet, two /28 subnets and one /28 Gateway subnet should you choose to add a customer VPN at any time. Networks will be provisioned in the North Central US region (near Chicago). These initial settings will get you started on using the service and you may edit or remove any of these. Please be mindful that you are assigned a specific IP range, and this IP range is required if you are going to use a VPN.
New accounts should be available within 1-2 business days.
Up front, there is no cost to sign up prior to consuming Azure resources. The only cost is for the customer VPN. This charge is applied once the VPN is created, whether it is being used or not.
Consolidated billing is only available to faculty and staff with subscriptions created under the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement.
You can give permissions to specific portions of your environment through granular IAM permissions. Click the Azure resource you wish to modify, select Access control (IAM), and then click Add. Select the Role and click Assign access to Azure AD user, group, or application. Enter the name of the user or group that should have access to the resource, and then click Save.
You can do this for a number of Azure offerings. To bill a different Shortcode than on your subscription, simply create a tag with Name “Shortcode” and Value your Shortcode number. Tags are available for many Azure resources, and the process for tagging is the same for each Azure resource. Click on the resource you wish to tag, click Tags. Add the Name and Value fields, click Save.
To submit a Microsoft support request, see the Support section.
The enterprise agreement provides legal protections as well as a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) between the University of Michigan and Microsoft. Please keep in mind that only subscriptions created under the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement and affiliated with Faculty and Staff are covered by the agreement.
Students and alumni can use a free Azure account provided by Microsoft. If using Azure for research, students and professors may be able to take advantage of research grants. However, students and alumni are not able to utilize the enterprise agreement, shortcode billing, or discounts. For more information about free Azure accounts, research grants, or Azure in Education please see the links below:
Yes, you can create multiple resource groups within a subscription.
General use of Azure for HIPAA data is not permitted at this time. U-M ITS continues to work with Michigan Medicine Corporate Compliance, the U-M data steward and compliance owner for HIPAA data, to establish processes and practices for the appropriate collection, processing, storage, and maintenance of HIPAA data in the Cloud. Please contact the Azure Support Team if you have any questions regarding using Azure for HIPAA data.