Welcome to the Azure Certified Device community!
We’re excited to have you in this discussion space dedicated to all things related to the Azure Certified Device program! Whether you’re here to ask questions about our certification badges, find some help with the approval process, or share the latest IoT solution you’ve built from our device catalog, we want to hear from you. Make sure to give this space a follow, as the Azure Certified Device team will post regular updates about our services, share the latest in IoT certification news, and answer your questions. We also highly encourage you to begin your own discussions and look forward to engaging on all things IoT with you! Interested in learning more about the certification program? Check us out on our recently launched Microsoft Docs or visit our Azure for Partners page for more information and leave your questions in the discussion space. Talk to you all soon!2022 with the Azure Certified Device program!
Dear valued device partners, Our team wants to welcome you back to the Azure Certified Device program in 2022! Whether you are certifying an IoT device for the first time, or returning to add more products to our Azure Certified Device catalog, we are excited to have you. This year, our certification will continue to grow to meet your requests and provide even greater value to customers looking to build great IoT solutions. Follow this Tech Community channel to receive more updates on how our program will continue to evolve. You can look forward to exciting announcements, including: Changes to the Azure Certified Device catalog Updates to certification badges for more customer interests And more! Have content you'd be interested in seeing in our Tech Community to better help you certify your devices? Let us know in the comments down below!Device Certification Tips & Tricks: Using the components feature
Interested in making the most of your device certification project? After certifying over 400 IoT devices through the Azure Certified Device portal, we have some tips and tricks that will help you make your devices appear on the Azure Certified Device catalog with as much detail as possible. This month’s tip is about using the components feature! You can add more information about your IoT device, including details about connectivity, accelerators, sensors, and more, by editing your components. We recommend adding at least one component (the more the better if your device is composed of multiple discrete parts) and providing these details using the Edit button (pictured below). The details you provide here allow your device to become more discoverable in our Azure Certified Device catalog through the filters and search function, so you’ll want to make sure that you provide as much information as possible. One way that you can determine if you need to add more information to the components is to double-check your device description in the Marketing details. The technical information that you provide in that text can likely be added to a component! Looking for more information about how to use this feature? Visit our Azure Certified Device documentation site for more detailed instructions. Questions? Comment down below!
Happy Holidays from the Azure Certified Device team!
To our valued partners of the Azure Certified Device program, In light of the upcoming holidays, we are pausing our monthly recaps and Tips & Tricks posts. We will be back next year with refreshed content for you all! We want to thank all of you for being part of this program, especially for this exciting year (our program turned one year old!) and hope to continue our partnership in the future. In the meantime, drop a comment below for what you would be interested in seeing on our Tech Community in the future. Cheers!
Choosing a right physical edge device for PLCs
Team, We're building a solution that - Connects to PLCs over Ethernet/IP Supports OPC UA Running edge runtime on Ubuntu 18.04 Right now we've deployed edge runtime in a VM. we wanted to use a physical device instead of deploying edge runtime in a VM. Any recommendations?
What’s new with the Azure Certified Device program? (May 2021)
Welcome to May’s edition of ‘What’s new with the Azure Certified Device program’! At the end of every month, we post the highlights of our recent updates and changes to our program, both on our Azure Certified Device portal and Azure Certified Device catalog. Read on for the latest happenings with the Azure Certified Device program: New to the catalog: New product details Hot on the heels of last month’s portal changes, you can now view operating conditions and software configuration on the product description pages of the catalog. Take a look on towards the bottom of each page. Have questions or feedback? Or do you have a suggestion something that you would like to see in our Tech Community? Leave a comment below!What’s new with the Azure Certified Device program? (Apr 2021)
As April comes to a close, we are excited to bring you our first iteration of our monthly series, “What’s new with the Azure Certified Device program?” At the end of every month, we will post the highlights of our recent updates and changes to our program, both on our Azure Certified Device portal and Azure Certified Device catalog. Without further ado, read below for the latest happenings with the Azure Certified Device program. Expect more discussion posts with handy tips & tricks on how to make the most of new features in the future as well! New to the portal: Operational conditions Under “Hardware” in the Device details section, you can now add environmental details about your IoT device, including certifications related to environment regulations, Ingress Protection rating values, and operating temperatures. New to the portal: Software configuration Under “Software” in the Device details section, you can now indicate the technical level required from a user to your certified IoT device to connect to Azure. Edge Secured-core badge preview launch! View our previous discussion space post for more information. These new additions to our program will enable device partners to describe their products in relevant contexts that are crucial to the IoT device selection process, including operational conditions and software-related information. The details collected in the portal will translate directly to new filters on the Azure Certified Device catalog that allow customers to use a more rigorous search experience to find and select the best IoT device for their needs. You can expect to see new filters for these changes on the Azure Certified Device catalog in the coming months. Have questions or feedback? Or do you have a suggestion for a new filter that you would like to see in the catalog? Leave a comment below!Announcement: Edge Secured-core preview launch!
The Azure Certified Device team is excited to announce our preview release of the Edge Secured-core validation process! The Edge Secured-core validation suite expands upon our three current badges to answer the customer promise for devices with safety and security. On the Azure Certified Device portal, we currently run the Edge Secured-core test to check for 5 requirements: Requirement Validates SecuredCore.Built-in.Security Defender for IoT SecuredCore.Hardware.Identity TPM SecuredCore.Protection.NetworkServices Elevated permission for services SecuredCore.EncryptionTLS TLS 1.2 SecuredCore.ManageabilityConfigurtation OS Config Over the coming months, we would love for you and your team to validate your IoT devices through our preview program! What does this mean for you? You will have the opportunity to get a jump start on certifying your IoT device for the Edge Secured-core badge by helping us test this new addition as we evolve our test harness. You can view more details about our requirements on our Docs site. If you have an IoT device using a Linux OS and IoT Edge runtime, you can view our certification tutorials to get started! When creating your project, just remember to select the “Edge Secured-core (Preview)” option, and follow the directions under the Connect & test section. (As a note, your devices running Windows will be supported soon! Stay tuned here for more updates.) Once you’ve started, reach out to iotcert@microsoft.com, drop a comment below, or start a new discussion with our fellow certification partners in this space! We’d love to hear about your feedback and experiences and look forward to growing our program with your help!
