Azure Availability Zones offers high availability for data and applications. In an Azure region, there can be one or more data centers. Azure Availability Zone is made out of one or more datacentres in the same Azure region,...
Read MoreAzure Availability Zones offers high availability for data and applications. In an Azure region, there can be one or more data centers. Azure Availability Zone is made out of one or more datacentres in the same Azure region,...
Read MoreVirtual Machine Snapshots are the quickest way to recover a virtual machine from a disaster. Snapshot is a copy of the virtual machines’ disk file at a given point of time. There are situations where we may need to get...
Read MoreI have a web server running in my on-premises network. I like to allow access to it from the internet via TCP port 443. To do that, I need to create two types of rules in my edge firewall. I need a NAT (Network Address...
Read MoreBy using source network address translation (SNAT), we can translate a local IP address, a pool of local IP addresses, or even a subnet to a specific public IP address for outbound connections. This is important as it will help...
Read MoreIn my previous blog posts, I explained about two types of Azure solution to load balance web traffic. • Azure Traffic Manager – If you are looking for DNS level load balancing which can distribute traffic to global endpoints,...
Read MoreAzure Private Link provides secure access to certain Azure PaaS services such as Azure SQL Database, Azure Storage, Azure Vault Services, MySQL Databases, Azure Cosmo DB via Microsoft backbone network. This will prevent...
Read MoreIn my previous blog post, I explained how to setup an Azure Traffic Manager. In there, I used GUI method to set it up. In this post I am going to show how we can set up Azure Traffic Manager using Azure PowerShell. In this demo,...
Read MoreIn infrastructure, there are many reasons for allowing traffic between virtual networks such as application requirements, backup/DR requirements, replication requirements and so on. If it is internal networks, we can do this...
Read MoreEach organization has different standards when it comes to server/desktop provisioning. These standards change based on the nature of the business, compliances, server/desktop role and so on. By keeping the customized OS image...
Read MoreThere are occasions where we need to move Azure Virtual Machines from one resource group to another. In this post, I am going to demonstrate how we can do that. Before start, there are a few things we should look in to. •...
Read MoreAzCopy is a command-line utility that can use to transfer data in or out from s storage account (blobs or files). This can be used in Windows, Linux or macOS systems. The same utility also can use to migrate data from one...
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I am Dishan Francis. I’m a Cyber Security Consultant at Microsoft. I’m a dedicated and enthusiastic information technology expert who enjoys professional recognition and accreditation from several respected institutions. I am maintaining this blog for last 11 years. This includes more than 400 articles already. These are mainly about Microsoft Active Directory Service and Azure Active Directory Service. I also blog about different Azure services. If you need further help on subject matters, feel free to contact me on rebeladm@live.com. Also to get latest updates, follow me on twitter @rebeladm
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