Networking

Why Choose the Azure Firewall over a Virtual Firewall Appliance?

March 5, 2019 // 3 Comments

In this post, I will explain why you should choose Azure Firewall over third-party firewall network virtual appliances (NVAs) from the likes of Cisco, Palo Alto, Check Point, and so on. Microsoft’s Opinion Microsoft has a partner-friendly line on Azure Firewall versus third-parties. Microsoft [...]

Microsoft Ignite–Building Enterprise Grade Applications With Azure Networking’s Delivery Suite

September 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

Speakers: Daniel Grickholm & Amit Srivastava I arrived late to this session after talking to some product group people in the expo hall. Application Gateway Demo We see the number of instances dynamically increase and cool down – I think there was an app on Kubernetes in the background. [...]

Adding Address Spaces To An Azure Virtual Network

September 4, 2018 // 2 Comments

Have you ever run out of addresses in an Azure virtual network? Have you ever needed to add a different scope or address space to an existing Azure virtual network? If so, this post is for you. Quite honestly, I did not know that this was possible until recently – it’s a setting in an Azure [...]

Azure Traffic Manager: Geography Versus Latency

June 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

A recent #AzureTrivia question on Twitter asked how you would configure Azure Traffic Manager to redirect clients to the closest endpoint (a place hosting a web application). That question made me go hmm – how do you define closest? Defining Closeness Do you measure closeness by kilometres [...]

First Cloud Mechanix Azure Course Completed

February 26, 2018 // 0 Comments

Last week, I delivered my first ever Cloud Mechanix Azure training course, to a full room in the Lancaster Gate area of London, UK. It was a jam-packed full 2 days of Azure storage, networking, virtual machines, backup, DR, security, and management, with lots of hands-on labs. Half the attendees [...]

Amsterdam – Starting Azure Infrastructure Course

January 22, 2018 // 4 Comments

I am happy to announce that our Cloud Mechanix venture is bringing my custom-written Starting Azure Infrastructure course to Amsterdam on April 19-20. This course is intended for IT professionals and developers that wish to start working with or improve their knowledge of Azure virtual machines. [...]

Azure VMs–Block Outbound Traffic to the Internet (Updated)

January 18, 2018 // 1 Comment

In theory, it was possible to deny all outbound traffic to the Internet from an Azure VM. In theory, I can also place a loaded gun to my head, but my doctor disapproves of that. Here’s what would happen: You created an outbound rule to Deny all traffic to a service tag (location) called Internet. [...]

Microsoft Azure Started Patching Reboots Yesterday

January 4, 2018 // 3 Comments

Contrary to a previous email that I received, Microsoft started rebooting Azure VMs yesterday, instead of the 9th. Microsoft also confirmed that this is because of the Intel CPU security flaw. The following email was sent out to customers: Dear Azure customer, An industry-wide, hardware-based [...]

I Am Running My “Starting Azure Infrastructure” Course in London on Feb 22/23

November 16, 2017 // 7 Comments

I am delighted to announce the dates of the first delivery of my own bespoke Azure training in London, UK, on February 21st and 22nd. All the details can be found here. In my day job, I have been teaching Irish Microsoft partners about Azure for the past three years, using training materials that I [...]

VMQ On Team Interface Breaking Hyper-V Networking

March 20, 2017 // 5 Comments

I recently had a situation where virtual machines on a Windows Server 2016 (WS2016) Hyper-V host could not communicate with each other. Ping tests were failing: Extremely high latency Lost packets In this case, I was building a new Windows Server 2016 demo lab for some upcoming community events in [...]

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Aidan Finn, IT Pro

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