Category: Azure
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Enable/Disable Accelerated Networking on Azure VM’s part 2
In my previous post, I talked about using a custom script to redeploy VM’s with Accelerated networking enabled or disabled. The latest PowerShell cmd’lets however make things a lot easier and don’t require you to re-deploy the entire VM anymore. So, this post is a followup to the previous one and explains how to enable…
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Encryption in the Cloud
One of the hottest topics with customers in their “journey” to adopt cloud is the topic of encryption. Data that goes up into space needs to be controlled to avoid leakage to hackers, script kiddies and what not. In the next few series I will be looking at Encryption in Azure, but let’s start with…
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Forcing re-authentication on (some) applications
Sign-In Frequencies in Azure AD: You might have seen on Azure Active Directory a new feature called Sign-In Frequency. In this post we are taking a closer look at this feature. First, we need to understand how authentication works and which tokens we are receiving. When you sign-in to an application which is dependent on…
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F5 Big-IP & AAD & BASIC / NTLM
In our previous post we looked at using Azure AD to perform the authentication for our F5 published web apps that used Kerberos. Now the strength of the F5 APM module is the SSO capabilities that allow it to authenticate users once and then they could reach any web app published by it, regardless of…
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F5 Big-IP & AAD & KCD
The title being full of acronyms, this topic is about publishing Kerberos based websites behind an F5 load balancer, while using Azure AD as the authenticating service. Or in more technical terms, F5 will rely on an external SAML based token to perform Kerberos Constraint Delegation towards a backend server. Get settled in, this is…
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ImmutableID – mS-DS-ConsistencyGuid – AADConnect – ADMT – part 3b
In part 3a, we explained how ADFS can be used in cross-forest migrations to ensure all users (migrated or not) can still authenticate. In part 3B we will be looking at Pass-Through authentication and how it affects migrated/non-migrated users. First of all, we need to make sure we have pass-through authentication agents deployed. In my…
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ImmutableID – mS-DS-ConsistencyGuid – AADConnect – ADMT – part 3a
To continue our coverage of ADMT and AAD, part three of the series. I know I promised 3 articles, but given the amount of data, I’ll split part 3 (authentication) in a few more posts.. We have 1 AAD and 2 AD’s; FORESTOOT.local as the source and TARGET.local is still the target AD forest. There…
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Managing Hyper-V Standalone with OSX
Hyper-V server is the free virtualization OS from Microsoft to compete head to head with the free ESXi OS. When running in large farms or domain joined, Hyper-V seems to work pretty decently. But when you just want a single host that you manage with Windows 10, or let alone MacOS, Hyper-V can become a…
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USG VPN’s and Dynamic IP’s
Running a Unifi USG gateway does have its challenges every now and then. One of my friends asked me how I would solve the problem of dynamic IP addresses being used in a S2S VPN configuration. Now normally, when you look at the USG documentation, if the S2S is managed by a single USG controller…
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Exclusive: Azure Gateway OpenVPN P2S profile creator
Since only a few days (and for the few that read this before the Ignite launch: in a few days) the Azure Virtual Network Gateway will support P2S connections based on OpenVPN. This means that the connections from all your clients to Azure networks becomes a whole lot easier. Connect with your phone, tablet, Mac…