Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Rodrigo Junqueira Lode

Yunus Mohammed

Apurva F Dalia

Sandeep P Karanth

Venugopala Rao Moram

Christopher Gariepy

Christopher J Saam

Lizhong Huang

Joydeep Bhattacharyya

Rui Chen

Lin Huang

Rangaprasad Narasimhan

John F Wohlfert

Santosh Daddi

Methods and computer-readable media are provided herein for implementing custom application programming interfaces (API) for creating, managing, and provisioning packages of online applications. An offer management service API is implemented that provides methods for creating and modifying offers for packages of online applications. An offer provisioning API is implemented that provides methods enabling the provisioning of online applications for subscribers to offers. An application provider API is published and utilized to provision and maintain individual instances of online applications provided by application providers.

Creating managing, and provisioning packages of online applications

A request to resolve an IP address is received by a Domain Name Server (DNS). A record, such as an MX record, relating to the request is obtained that comprises a unique label (e.g. record=customer-com.mail.messaging.com) that is used in determining how to resolve the request. The unique label portion of the record (e.g. customer-com) is used to identify information relating to the request such as a version of software/service to use to handle the request, a region used to handle the request, and the like. The same record may be used to direct a request to a different version and/or different region. For example, without changing the record, a request at one time may access a first version/region and a request at a different time access a different version/region.

Dynamic and intelligent DNS routing with subzones

Creating, managing, and provisioning packages of online applications

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Rodrigo Junqueira Lode