Category: Azure

Before we start, we will need to know a few things about Azure Stack HyperConverged Infrastructure. Basically it means that we can deploy physical hardware on-premise that uses internal hardware to create a redundant setup when deploying multiple nodes. When deploying Azure Stack HCI on hardware you will get...

In the last few years we see an evolving hosting landscape. Emerging cloud hosting and even cloud offboarding for certain workloads. But with this increasingly complex environments we need to find a way to manage and governance our clouds. With Azure Arc you can governance, manage and maintain your...

Since Azure WAN came out I’ve configured multiple Azure Virtual WAN environments. But since september 2023 it is now possible to automatically assign firewall routes to all your VPN tunnels. By default traffic from 1 VPN tunnel to another VPN tunnel will bypass the firewall. With this new Inter-hub...

In the past blog I showed you how to deploy Azure Virtual WAN with a HUB (Deploy Azure Virtual WAN with Virtual HUB (Manual) | 2 Azure). Today we will continue the journey with the deployment of the Azure Firewall. Prerequisites: STEP 1: Deploy Azure Firewall policy From the...

Azure Application Gateway is an advance type of load-balancer. Where an Azure Load-balancer routes traffic on the transport layer (OSI Layer 4 | TCP + UDP) the Application Gateway is a way more advanced load-balancer. It can route based on URL as well on path’s. On top of that...

When you want to migrate from an on-prem file server to an Azure File Share, you want to do it as fast as possible. There are multiple ways to achieve such an migration. This could be with Azure Storage Explorer, mount the SMB share and go for a traditional...

Last few weeks I’ve been busy with setting up an Azure Virtual WAN environment with multiple VPN connections. One of them is a High available VPN with BGP connection to a Fortigate Firewall. Since this Fortigate Firewall is hosted with a 3rd party, I don’t have any screenshots or...

Azure Functions is a serverless solution that allows you to write less code, maintain less infrastructure, and save on costs. Instead of worrying about deploying and maintaining servers, the cloud infrastructure provides all the up-to-date resources needed to keep your applications running. As you build your functions, you have...

From within the Azure API Manament portal there is a default authentication option for your API consumers. The better option is to configure a connection with an Azure B2C tenant. This will enable you to enforce MFA and conditional access policies on your API applications. In this manual it...

Sometimes it happens that if you want to deploy a new type of resource in Azure that you receive the following error: The subscription is not registered to use namespace ‘*********’. See https://aka.ms/rps-not-found for how to register subscriptions. Today I received the above error for the namespace Microsoft.AzureActiveDirectory. And...

If you are planning on using Azure Firewall you will definitely need to start using IP Groups. This will make your life so much easier and save you a lot of time in future changes because it will allow you to group and manage IP addresses for Azure Firewall...

Last week I had a customer that wanted to deploy multiple fonts to all his clients. Since there is no default option to deploy fonts to Intune clients, it is time to do some PowerShell magic, in Intune. How to install fonts on your device? If you have new...

Microsoft has been working on improving security. In the last few years every CSP customer has had the request to grant Delegated Admin Privileges (DAP) at least once. Without it is hard for the CSP Partner to grant and assign licenses, however not impossible. Of course it is convenient...

In this manual I am going to show you how to move resources to a different subscription, region and/or resource group in Azure. For today I am going to use the Azure portal, but you can use Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI or the REST API as well to move...