Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Chuanbo Zhang

Yue Chen

Huajun Luo

Jie Du

David C James

Daniel Ward

Leyu Feng

Justin K Stanton

Chung Man Yiu

Jie Jerry Liu

Yu Xia

Na Li

Yu Zhang

Yizhong Wu

Jerry Liu

XueYin Jiang

Haibing Wang

Shakir Hussain Basheer

Jie Liu

Suyin Liu

Jonathan Shi

Yiteng Yu

Xiangyi Deng

Yumin Guo

ZhongGang Li

This disclosure relates to a context enforcement system that efficiently and securely protects tenant context information that travels across microservices in a multi-tenant distributed cloud computing system and protects against data leaks that often occur in conventional microservice management systems. For example, the context enforcement system ensures secure external and internal communications and context isolation by providing various shared library functions to microservices of a multi-tenant distributed cloud computing system. Additionally, the shared library provided by the context enforcement system improves the efficiency of the multi-tenant distributed cloud computing system by allowing microservices to focus on target operations rather than also maintaining and performing additional redundant functions.

End-to-end context isolation across microservices in a multi-tenant distributed cloud infrastructure

Displaying a hierarchy. A method includes identifying a set of nodes representing sites in a hierarchy. The set of nodes share one or more common characteristics not shared by any other nodes in the hierarchy. The method further includes determining that the set of nodes, as a set, meet a predetermined condition. As a result of the nodes sharing the one or more common characteristics not shared by any other nodes in the hierarchy and as a result of the set meeting the predetermined condition, the method further includes aggregating at least a portion of the set of nodes. The method further includes displaying in a graphical user interface a representation of the hierarchy including displaying the aggregated portion as a single entity in the hierarchy.

Relationship visualization and graphical interaction model in IT client management

Granular inventory management with conflict resolution at a target is provided. A client receives inventory management requests, as default settings and/or from a server. Each request includes action instance(s), which have an action key, action type, action detail(s), a precedence, and a sequence number. The client identifies a conflict if two instances have the same action type but incompatible detail(s). The client resolves the conflict, based on precedence and sometimes also on sequence numbers. The client performs the resulting action instance(s), and results are sent back for inclusion in an inventory report. Action details may specify a schedule for recurring actions. A precedence may be specified by an administrator or be built-in. Default and other requests may be defined by viewing inventory classes in a graphical user interface, entering an action based on inventory class(es), and entering target device group selection(s). Inventory classes may be captured from a live system.

Granular client inventory management with conflict resolution

Relationship visualization and graphical interaction model in it client management

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