What are the Differences Between Azure Active Directory and Azure Active Directory Domain Services?
If you are moving, building, or subscribing to apps in Azure, you need to understand which flavour of AD to use. Azure Active Directory (AAD) Azure Active Directory Domain Services (AADDS) Active Directory (AD) Let's discuss the differences.Planning the Monitoring of my hybrid environment.
Hello folks, By now you may have read that I’ve rebuilt my demo environment to look like what a typical hybrid environment would look like. I did it slowly without having to rip and replace everything in my on-prem environment. Started out with establishing a site-to-site VPN, then a solution to remote into all the servers in my environment, configured a resilient way of resolving the names of all servers in my hybrid deployment, and lastly, configuring an Azure Arc Private Link Scope so that all my on-prem machines could connect to Azure using the VPN and not the open internet. Now as I look at all the operational tasks I need to implement (monitoring/insights, patch management, change management, etc...) To support all these operational requirements, I need the common underpinning provided by the Azure Log Analytics workspace.Leveraging PowerShell SecretManagement to generalize a demo environment
I've been working on a way to regularly use the password from a location that is built specifically for storing passwords and other secrets. Namely, Azure Key Vault, to update all the servers in a demo environment. This POC solution could be re-used and modified to run on a schedule to generate a new complex password and store it in Key Vault, then update all the servers in your environment with the new password on a regular basis.Log Analytics Workspace Design Gotchas
Hello Folks, Lately I’ve had a few conversations regarding Log Analytics workspace design. More specifically, questions like: Do I create one central workspace with all data? Should I create one workspace per application? Should each team have their own workspace? this article will cover that.Wired for Hybrid - What's New in Azure Networking December 2023 edition
Hello Folks, Azure Networking is the foundation of your infrastructure in Azure. Each month we bring you an update on What’s new in Azure Networking. In this blog post, we’ll cover what's new with Azure Networking in December 2023. In this blog post, we will cover the following announcements and how they can help you. Enjoy!Setting up DNS in a Hybrid Environment.
Hello Folks, I’m not sure when this became a series, but it’s looking like it’s going to be ongoing. I’m hoping it can give the community a sense of how you can slowly adopt cloud services to enhance your on-prem environment. It started a few weeks ago with the post on how I needed to replace the edge device on my home network. Then I followed up with how I now can use the site-to-site VPN I set up to access (RDP & SSH) all the servers in my environment using the Bastion host on Azure. But I’m at a point where I’ve got demo servers and services on both sides of the VPN. Name resolution is fast becoming an issue. How do I set up a DNS structure to efficiently resolve server IP addresses from an on-premises environment and vice versa without deploying VM-based DNS servers.WSL2 now available on Windows Server 2022
Hello folks! If you’re one of those Devs/ITPros using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) you know how useful and powerful it can be. We announced during Microsoft Build last week that WSL2 will be broadly available in June. But I could not wait. Here’s how I installed it. It’s pretty simple. Check it out!Azure Blueprints vs Azure Resource Manager template specs
I’ve had a few conversations lately with IT pros and operations folks that made me think that there may be a disconnect or some confusion about the role of Azure blueprints and ARM templates specs. We'll look at the difference in this article
How to Protect your Azure blob storage from accidental deletion
I know this not a new feature, but this saved my proverbial behind earlier this week. I was cleaning out demo subscriptions and resource groups that I’m no longer using or that need to be reset for new demos. Well… It did not take long for me to pick one that I needed to keep and hit the “Delete resource group”. read this to find out how I recovered.
