Azure Infra – a technical blog.
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Azure P2S VPN with MFA
As Microsoft enabled the Radius option in the Azure Gateway VPN configuration, it now means you can enable MFA on your P2S connections! There is a caveat however. It…
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AZURE STACK DEVELOPMENT KIT – INSTALLER (Creating the ISO)
In my previous post I mentioned the way to create a USB/ISO for booting / installing the ASDK system. Now I’ve automated the creation of the ISO image (so…
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Azure Stack Development Kit – Rebooting ADFS mode
When you have deployed your ASDK in ADFS mode and you want to shutdown/reboot the host, you might notice that the service never comes up again.. while a shutdown…
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Azure Stack Development Kit – Custom AD
(Not supported by Microsoft alert!) Azure Stack uses Active Directory technologies for identity management and authentication. By default, Azure Stack has 2 modes in can operate in. It can…
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Enable/Disable Accelerated Networking on Azure VM’s
Microsoft Azure has the option to enable Accelerated Networking on VM’s. More information on the feature can be found here but this post is not to tell you about…
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Azure Stack Development Kit – Installer (on USB)
If you want to deploy the Azure Stack Development Kit, the deployment guide instructs you to install a clean Windows 2012R2 or 2016 server OS on the physical host…
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Even strong passwords are… stupid
While this blog is mostly focused around passwords and how to ensure people can login, the new direction within Microsoft is to get rid of passwords. I can already…
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Azure Active Directory Pass-through Authentication part 2
In the initial post, we looked at PTA from a high-level perspective. This post goes into the actuals and internals of the PTA to ensure you can convince your…
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Azure Stack Development Kit – Connecting to subscription networks through the host
I know that many of my posts are about networking icw a Juniper SRX… as I happen to have one. But what if you don’t have such a “sophisticated”…
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Azure Stack Development Kit – Connecting to subscription networks
When you have Azure Stack Development Kit deployed and in Routing mode (see earlier post). You can now also create S2S VPN connections to the tenants deployed inside Azure…
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Azure Stack Development Kit – moving around (changing IP’s)
When you have your Azure Stack Development Kit, you might want to show it off to your customers or simply change the external IP address for some other reasons..…