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Rather happy with this preview feature announcement – currently in preview Geo-redundant storage (GRS) or Read Access-GRS accounts now have the option to manually fail over rather than wait on Azure to initiate the fail-over into the secondary region. This is great news, not all “Disaster Recovery” scenarios now require Azure to initiate the fail-over, … Read more
Running an Azure RM Template and it errors with: A simple PowerShell command will get you the verbose error log, to assist you with troubleshooting your Azure RM Template, -CorrelationId will be the tracking id mentioned above: With this I was able to find the test storage account name I was attempting to use was … Read more
Keeping credentials safe and secure has always been a priority, even more so when in the cloud – quite a potential challenge this can be within your application, virtual machine or requirements to authenticate to additional cloud services Within Microsoft Azure, using managed identities is one of the security precautions can assist you with the … Read more
Action Groups within Azure are a group of notification preferences and/or actions which are used by both Azure Monitor and service alerts. They can be defined in various ways depending on the environment you are working on, whether one action group is used for all alerts or action groups are split into different alerting scenarios. … Read more
As of writing this blog, I have passed the following Microsoft Azure Exams:- Microsoft 70-533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Solutions Microsoft 70-535: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions Microsoft AZ-102: Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification Transition I thought my next blog I will go into some detail exam preparation tips aimed at Microsoft Azure exams. The exam set I … Read more
As mentioned in a previous blog – NSG’s control access by permitting or denying network traffic in a number of ways, whether it be:- Communication between different workloads on a vNET Network connectivity from on-site environment into Azure Direct internet connection 1. One NSG to rule them all Do you really need a NSG per subnet? Or … Read more
There may be a need to log the activity of an Azure Automation Account to Log Analytics, this can of course be done via the Portal but, if deploying in true automated fashion – it would be preferable to implemented via code. These log categories will be configured along with All Metrics:- JobLogs JobStreams DSCNodeStatus … Read more
Last of the NPS integration with Azure MFA blogs, this will include using PowerShell for installation of the Radius Configuration from a backup along with additional snippets of PowerShell to potentially help you to automate your own NPS server build. Installation of NPS Server Role Install-WindowsFeature NPAS -IncludeManagementTools Configure and add RadiusClients The below Password … Read more
In my previous blog, I detailed the process of how a Network Policy Server (NPS) is used to integrate with an Azure VPN gateway using RADIUS to provide Multi-Factor Authentication (Azure MFA) for point-to-site connections to your Azure environment. This is a follow-up to that, some additional troubleshooting for the NPS configuration. Firewall Network Policy … Read more