Enable Azure NSG Flow and Traffic Analytics
A while back I wrote a blog post on how to enable NSG flow and traffic analytics in bulk for all your NSGs.
A while back I wrote a blog post on how to enable NSG flow and traffic analytics in bulk for all your NSGs.
By default every Windows virtual machine that you deploy in Azure from the marketplace will be deployed using US regional settings. So the timezone, time format, currency, keyboard will all be in EN-US. I got a few requests lately from customers and others if it would be possible to automate the regional settings, sytem locales and input locales configuration. This blogpost will cover how to create an XML settings file that contains all of our regional settings and how to apply those regional settings to our Virtual Machines in Azure. To be able to achieve this we are going to need 2 things: an XML file containing our regional settings and a PowerShell script to apply the regional settings.
A common design pattern in Azure is the Hub and Spoke topology as described here. In this blog post I will describe how you can deploy a spoke environment in a different subscription and enable VNET-peering to the hub environment with Blueprints. We assume that the Hub environment is already fully configured and deployed.
Hi all, After implementing the Governance policies and foundations described in“Deploying Azure resource policies” it is important to make sure the end-consumers will not be able to change or remove those policies. In the customer environment I’m curre...
As we speak one of my customers is looking into using Azure Network Watcher for its network auditing and packet logging capabilities. Network Security Group flow logs are a feature of Network Watcher that allows you to view information about ingress an...
This blogpost is the second blogpost of applying governance in Azure. Many organizations that are moving to Azure would like to enforce data sovereignty and ensure that no resources can be deployed outside of the country. One of my customers needed to ...
Hi all, Before deploying anything in Azure you should think about Governance. You must address the topic of governance early to ensure the successful use of the cloud within your enterprise. After a series of really intense governance workshops my cus...
Hi everyone, Couple of days ago I had to enable traffic between an environment in Azure and an on-premise environment. We already have an Azure gateway installed and a VPN connection between another VNET in our Azure environment so I wanted to reuse th...
A lot of my customers are struggling with the billing part of Azure. They need a convenient way to review and visualize what they have consumed in Azure. I discovered the Azure Usage and Billing Insights (AUBI) portal couple of weeks ago, which does ex...