All things Cloud, by Matt Hansen.
Reading Time: 7 minutesOverview: From day one in Azure (which for me was over a decade ago), one of the critical design requirements has been to choose a network address space that doesn’t overlap with that which is configured on-premises or any other connected environments. Admittedly, this has gotten significantly easier since over the years there have been […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast week , Azure Front Door Premium went into Public Preview. While this did bring about some other cool features and integrations, the one I’m most excited about today is the integration with Azure Private Link. This now allows Azure Front Door to make use of Private Link Services (not endpoints, which is what most […]
Reading Time: 9 minutesIn the past, I’ve written a few blog posts about setting up different types of VPNs with Azure. Azure Point-to-Site VPN with RADIUS Authentication « The Tech L33T Azure Web Apps with Cost Effective, Private and Hybrid Connectivity « The Tech L33T Azure Site-to-Site VPN with PFSense « The Tech L33T Since the market is […]
Reading Time: 10 minutesCaution: this blog post may save you significant time and money, and has been affectionately dubbed “The ASE Killer!”. Note: If you prefer a video walk-through, you can now view my video building this solution on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeYwTLd_zB8 With the advent of the cloud came the ever so attractive PaaS service model. The first time […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes*Edit* 6/9/20: At the time of writing this blog custom roles were not available in the Azure Portal. Since that feature now exists, I’ve added how to create this role through the portal to the end of this blog. We all know that cloud environments are different than on premises. Development environments can be even […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a recent design session, I had someone mention how they wish that Azure had dedicated and/or isolated IaaS VMs like some of the other cloud providers. They were shocked with I said – they do! Azure has a number of isolated VM types that you can provision and leverage just the same as any […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesI did a few new SCOM 2012 installs recently and noticed that after pushing the agent to the DCs, they showed up grayed out in Ops Manager. Here’s a quick tip on how to fix that. Logon to the DC(s), and with an administrative comand prompt run the HSLockdown tool, and add the local system […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesA few days ago the phone rings, I get an ear-full about how some application isn’t working correctly and how it’s all the network’s fault and the repercussions of this outage will possibly cause so much damage that the world will start turning…the OTHER DIRECTION. Unfortunately for us IT Professionals, this is all too common […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the things you often find yourself thinking is, hmm…I should probably test my windows machines for security flaws, right? I’ve decided to share some very good tools for testing security from basic button clicking to advanced security testing. As it relates to Windows-based computers, there are seven general types of security testing tools. […]
