We have a hub and spoke design in Azure for our vNets and needed to peer the vNets together. This can be done in an ARM template and we could have deployed all three networks in one go and peered them as part of the ARM template deployment. For various reasons that approach didn't really … Continue reading vNet Peering PowerShell
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Playing with Azure Firewall
What is Azure Firewall - A fully stateful firewall as a service. Before you can deploy Azure Firewall you need to register the provider in your subscription : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall/public-preview Register-AzureRmProviderFeature -FeatureName AllowRegionalGatewayManagerForSecureGateway -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Network Register-AzureRmProviderFeature -FeatureName AllowAzureFirewall -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Network It can take up to 30 minutes for the feature registration to complete The easy way … Continue reading Playing with Azure Firewall
VM Deployment with ARM Template
Deploying VMs with an ARM template.
Baseline security policy for Azure AD admin accounts in public preview! – Enterprise Mobility + Security
Baseline security policy for Azure AD admin accounts in public preview! – Enterprise Mobility + Security — Read on cloudblogs.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2018/06/22/baseline-security-policy-for-azure-ad-admin-accounts-in-public-preview/
AzureAD Password Protection
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OMS Deployment with ARM Template
An ARM template to deploy a basic OMS workspace in Azure. It deploys a workspace and two OMS solutions: Anti-Malware assessment and Updates. Another template for OMS deployment, which is identical to the above, but links the workspace to an existing automation account. Note it does not create the automation account, the automation account must … Continue reading OMS Deployment with ARM Template
New Azure ARM Template documentation
Microsoft have published new documentation on using ARM templates. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/templates/ First impressions of this new documentation are good
Using Terraform for Azure deployments
Terraform - "Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve production infrastructure" https://www.terraform.io/ Using Terraform I was able to deploy a virtual machine, virtual networks, sql server and an sql database to Azure. It looks like a very useful tool for not only creating infrastructure via code in Azure but then also … Continue reading Using Terraform for Azure deployments
SPN not found AAD Connect ADFS
During an install of AAD Connect I received an error saying that there wasn't an SPN set on the ADFS service account. Upon checking the user account I could see it did have an SPN set of host/sts.example.com. Clicking retry on the ADFS install wizard got things going again and the install proceeded without any … Continue reading SPN not found AAD Connect ADFS
Let’s Encrypt and Azure Websites
This is awesome. Would still like this to see this made much easier (as the author says towards the end of the article), but anyway this makes using Let's Encrypt with Azure websites possible and relatively easy; https://www.troyhunt.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-loading-a-free-lets-encrypt-certificate-into-an-azure-website/
