Tag: IaaS
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Azure services URLs and IP addresses for firewall or proxy whitelisting
When you are working with Azure sometimes you have to whitelist specific IP address ranges or URLs in your corporate firewall or proxy to access all Azure services you are using or trying to use. Some information like the datacenter IP ranges and some of the URLs are easy to find. Other things are more…
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Free trial subscriptions for Azure Germany
Today at the Microsoft Technical Summit in Darmstadt, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of the free trial subscriptions for Azure Germany. If you want to test Azure Germany for 30 days, just sign up and create your free trial. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/germany/ -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/clouds/germany/
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Microsoft Azure Route Table effective routes evaluation
Another hidden gem in Azure is the effective routes evaluation. The effective routes evaluation can be found under the category SUPPORT + TROUBLESHOOTING in each Route Table or NIC. You only have to select the subnet and the VM’s NIC. Now you get an overview which routes are applied to the VM’s NIC. For an…
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Microsoft Azure Network Security Group effective security rules evaluation
Ever faced the problem that you had defined rules in your Network Security Groups, attached one to the virtual subnet and the other one to the VM’s NIC and finally lost the view which rules of which NSG are applied to the VM? If you can answer the question with yes, then Azure provides the…
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Using Azure Active Directory in Microsoft Azure Germany for Microsoft Azure Stack
When you want to use the Azure Active Directory in the national cloud or sovereign cloud Microsoft Azure Germany you have to adjust two files in the Azure Stack TP2 bits. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/clouds/germany/ The two files are: -> X:\CloudDeployment\Configuration\InstallAzureStackPOC.ps1 ->X:\CloudDeployment\Common\AzureADConfiguration.psm1 Let us start to adjust the InstallAzureStackPOC.ps1. Jump to line 64 and add in the…
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Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview 2 on lower hardware specifications – November refresh
Last week Microsoft has released the November refresh of its Azure Stack TP2 release bits. There are a lot of improvements, so it is recommended to do a fresh deployment of the TP2. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-azure-paas-services-available-for-azure-stack-technical-preview-2-tp2/ What I have discovered editing the following files, is that we got an additional VM in the November refresh. ->…