Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Naveen Reddy Karri

Deepak Bansal

Parveen Kumar Patel

Gopal Parupudi

Adil Ahmed Sherwani

Kevin Joseph Fischer

Mahmood Gulam Qadir

Marios Zikos

Ashwin Narasimha Murthy

Anubhuti Manohar

Yagya Narayanan Sethuraman

Jayaram R Iyer

Chi-Kit Chan

Christine H Tran

Jason Minick

HongYu Wu

A load balancer that is able to detect and mitigate a Denial of Service (DOS) attack. The load balancer is placed in the flow path of network data packets that are destined for one or more tenant addresses. The load balancer analyzes performance parameters regarding the network data packets that are destined for the one or more tenant addresses and are received at the load balancer. The performance parameters describe network data packet flow to the tenant addresses. The load balancer detects, based on the analysis of the performance parameters, that one or more of the tenant addresses are being subjected to a DOS attack. The load balancer performs a mitigation operation to isolate the one or more tenant addresses being subjected to the DOS attack.

DOS detection and mitigation in a load balancer

Many current computer software platforms support user customization and version upgradability. Unfortunately, upgrading a computer software platform may result in significant loss of user customization data. Additionally, it may be advantageous for users to export and import their customization data to share as customized business solutions with other instances of the computer software platforms. Accordingly, a technique for creating and importing a configuration package and a technique for creating and utilizing an update package is disclosed herein. The configuration package allows configuration data of elements within a computer software platform to be exported and imported. The update package allows elements to be exported within the update package. The update package may be utilized in upgrading, overwriting, and/or creating a new instance of elements. When an existing element is upgraded with an update element within the update package, the existing element's original configuration may be retained.

Serviceability and configuration management

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