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Puppet On Azure | Βήμα 3, Προσθήκη Windows Agent

Puppet On Azure Προσθήκη Windows Agent Βήμα 1 Δημιουργία Windows VM Δημιουργούμε ένα Virtual Machine, από το Azure Management Portal πάμε στα Virtual Machines, πατάμε New και πατάμε «From Gallery” Διαλέγουμε Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Δίνουμε όνομα, για το Lab: “puppetslave03”, size ένα A0, username & password Στην επόμενη οθόνη επιλέγουμε το ίδιο Cloud […] The post Puppet On Azure | Βήμα 3, Προσθήκη Windows Agent appeared first on Proxima's IT Corner. Source

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Create Azure File Shares at your ARM template using PowerShell

Create Azure File Shares at your ARM template using PowerShell Using Azure Resource Manage template deployment, you can create a Storage account but you cannot create File Shares. Azure File Shares can be created using the Azure Portal, the Azure PowerShell or the Azure Cli. Mainly, the idea is to run a PowerShell script that will create the File Shares. This script will be invoked inside the ARM Template. In order to use a PowerShell script from a template, the script must be called from a URL.

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Connect two or more Azure Virtual Networks using one VPN Gateway

Connect two or more Azure Virtual Networks using one VPN Gateway Peering is a feature that allows to connect two or more virtual networks and act as one bigger network. At this post we will see how we can connect two Azure Virtual Networks, using peering and access the whole network using one VPN Gateway. We can connect Virtual Networks despite if they are in the same Subscription or not. I have created a diagram to help understand the topology. We have a Virtual Network with Site-2-Site VPN w

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Azure Policy | Limit the Azure VM Sizes

Azure Policy | Limit the Azure VM Sizes Azure Governance This post, Azure Policy, is the first of a series of posts about Azure Governance. The idea is to explain through examples and how-to-guides, the tools that Microsoft Azure provides to help the administrators to enforce rules to all subscriptions. Some examples of those rules are, to help the organizations to stay compliant with their corporate standards, to standardize the resources creation and management, to manage the permissions and a

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Azure ExpressRoute adds Satellite connectivity

<p style="text-align: justify;">ExpressRoute is a Microsoft Azure service that provides a private connection between an organization’s on-premises infrastructure and Microsoft Cloud services, such as Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics 365.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute was general available back on 2014. To connect to Azure ExpressRoute you need a direct line with an ExpressRoute provider. Now Microsoft announced that Microsoft cloud se

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Use Azure Security Center to protect your workloads

Use Azure Security Center to protect your workloads At this series of posts we will make a walk along the Azure Security Center, to see some common usage scenarios. Like how we can use it to protect from a Virtual Machine to a whole Data Center. To make it easier to understand we will start with a typical Azure IaaS scenario. A Virtual Machine with IIS role to act as Web Server. The steps to create the VM is out this post’s scope. I will simply describe the process. First we create a Windows Ser

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Leave an Azure Subscription – Directory

Working as a Cloud Consultant, Administrator, Architect, many companies will provide you guest (Azure AD B2B) access to their subscription. After completing the Admins of the subscriptions, many times, forget to remove this accesses and as a result you still have access to resources with no reason and also the list of your available subscriptions grows making it difficult to choose the right subscription to work. In this post we will walk through the steps of removing your account from those sub

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Azure Bastion – Jump Server as a Service

<h1>Azure Bastion – Jump Server as a Service</h1> <p>Azure Bastion is a new Azure Platform (PaaS) service, at this time is still in Preview, that allows to have RDP and SSH access to Virtual Machines inside a Virtual Network directly from the Azure Portal. This eliminates the need to expose the Virtual Machines RDP and SSH ports to the internet.</p> <p>The logic comes from the Jump Servers, but you don’t need to deploy any VMs and you don’t have to worry about the h

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Get early access to large disks support of Azure Backup & more

Get early access to large disks support of Azure Backup & more Azure Backup’s 1TB limitation at last is over! Now you can backup VMs with disk sizes up to 4TB(4095GB), both managed and unmanaged. Also has improvements on backup and recovery performance that you can find here. Starting today login to the Portal, go to your Recovery Services vault and you will a notification saying “Support for >1TB disk VMs and improvements to backup and restore speed ->” Click the notification and the

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Use Azure Security Center to protect your workloads

Use Azure Security Center to protect your workloads At this series of posts we will make a walk along the Azure Security Center, to see some common usage scenarios. Like how we can use it to protect from a Virtual Machine to a whole Data Center. To make it easier to understand we will start with a typical Azure IaaS scenario. A Virtual Machine with IIS role to act as Web Server. The steps to create the VM is out this post’s scope. I will simply describe the process. First we create a Windows Ser

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Azure Storage Advanced Thread Protection

Azure Storage Advanced Thread Protection Azure Storage Advanced Threat Protection is a new security feature, currently in Preview. It monitors the Azure Blob Storage accounts. It detects anomalies and uncommon access to the Storage Account and notifies the admins through email. All the Azure Storage Advanced Threat Protection monitoring and logs are integrated to the Azure Security Center, including the well known ASC recommendations. It’s so easy to enable, just go to the Azure Portal, navigate

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Azure Start Point | Point-to-Site VPN

Azure Start Point | Point-to-Site VPN In this post series we will go through some basic steps on how to start with Microsoft Azure. At this post we will see how we can create Point-to-Site VPN connection with Azure. If you don’t have an Azure Subscription, you can easily create a free trial by just going to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/ Create typical a VIrtual Network In order to create Point-to-Site VPN connection it needs a Virtual Network Gateway. Go to the Virtual Network, Subnet

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Free e-book: Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide

Free e-book: Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide Microsoft Azure is giving free a Strategy and Implementation guide for Azure. This e-book provides guidance, architecture and advises to implement and integrate cloud technologies. This guide is directed to system administrators, cloud architects and project managers. It has for chapters, the Governance, the Architecture, the Application development and operations and the Service management. It will help you for starting with Azure or just doi

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Azure Policy | Enforce tags for resource creation

<h1 style="text-align: left;">Azure Policy | Enforce tags for resource creation</h1> <h2 style="text-align: justify;">Azure Governance</h2> <p style="text-align: justify;">After the previous post about <a href="https://www.e-apostolidis.gr/microsoft/azure-policy-limit-the-azure-vm-sizes/"target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">how to use Azure Policy to limit the Azure VM sizes</a>, I continue the series of posts about Azure Governance with a video gui

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Azure Start Point | Your first Web App

Azure Start Point | Your first Web App In this post series we will go through some basic steps on how to start with Microsoft Azure. For start we will create a Web App. If you don’t have an Azure Subscription, you can easily create a free trial by just going to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/ Let’s create our first Web App. Go to the Azure Portal by navigating to https://portal.azure.com and click “+ Create a resource” At the search box write “Web App” and press enter At the search res

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Monitor & Alert for your Azure VM

Monitor & Alert for your Azure VM Lets see how easy it is to monitor and create an alert, in order to be notified when your VMs are restarted, when they start, stop, get high CPU usage, memory and much more. First navigate to the Azure Portal https://portal.azure.com, and then click the Monitor button. You will be navigated to the Monitor blade. At the center of the screen you will see three mail buttons, each starts a wizard. Click the “Create Alert” under the Explore monitoring essential

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Create Azure File Shares at your ARM template using PowerShell

Create Azure File Shares at your ARM template using PowerShell Using Azure Resource Manage template deployment, you can create a Storage account but you cannot create File Shares. Azure File Shares can be created using the Azure Portal, the Azure PowerShell or the Azure Cli. Mainly, the idea is to run a PowerShell script that will create the File Shares. This script will be invoked inside the ARM Template. In order to use a PowerShell script from a template, the script must be called from a URL.

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Azure Portal | Playing with Disk Snapshot

<h1 style="text-align: justify;">Azure Portal | Playing with Disk Snapshot</h1> <p style="text-align: justify;">Disk Snapshot is a powerful tool to manage Azure VMs. It’s simple to create and can help the administrators in various tasks. It’s a fast and efficient way to have a crash-consistent Disk of a Virtual Machine, before performing tasks, updates, configuration changes, application installations, etc. Of course the last line of defence is the Azure Backup, but using the S

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Serverless Computing | Email Report Azure WAF Logs

At this post, we will create a Logic App that will query the Log Analytics workspace for the WAF logs of the last 24 hours and send the results in an email, using a free SendGrid account. A Web Application Firewall protects your application from common web vulnerabilities. Azure provides enterprise grade Web Application Firewall through the Application Gateway. You can read more at my previous post: https://www.e-apostolidis.gr/microsoft/azure/protect-your-web-application-with-azure-application-

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Monitor & Alert for your Azure VM

Monitor & Alert for your Azure VM Lets see how easy it is to monitor and create an alert, in order to be notified when your VMs are restarted, when they start, stop, get high CPU usage, memory and much more. First navigate to the Azure Portal https://portal.azure.com, and then click the Monitor button. You will be navigated to the Monitor blade. At the center of the screen you will see three mail buttons, each starts a wizard. Click the “Create Alert” under the Explore monitoring essential

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My First Microsoft Azure MVP award!

Μόλις έλαβα το πρώτο μου Microsoft Azure MVP award! Νοιώθω χαρούμενος και περήφανος που η προσπάθεια και η προσφορά μου στην κοινότητα ανταμείβεται. Πιστεύω στην κοινότητα και στον διαμοιρασμό της γνώσης και αυτό με έχει βοηθήσει πολύ στην ζωή μου και και εγώ με τη σειρά μου προσπαθώ να βοηθήσω στο μέγιστο. Όλα ξεκινάνε με αυτό το υπέροχο email Congratulations! We are extremely pleased to present you with the 2018-2019 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award! This award is given to exce

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Azure Start Point | Point-to-Site VPN

Azure Start Point | Point-to-Site VPN In this post series we will go through some basic steps on how to start with Microsoft Azure. At this post we will see how we can create Point-to-Site VPN connection with Azure. If you don’t have an Azure Subscription, you can easily create a free trial by just going to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/ Create typical a VIrtual Network In order to create Point-to-Site VPN connection it needs a Virtual Network Gateway. Go to the Virtual Network, Subnet

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Create an Ultra High Available on-prem Azure VPN Connection

Create an Ultra High Available on-prem <-> Azure VPN Connection At this post we will see how to make a high available connection between our on-premises network and Azure. This way we will have an Active-Active Dual-Redundancy VPN Connection. The idea behind this is that we have a router/firewall cluster,connected with two ISPs and we want to also have a VPN connection with Azure using both ISPs actively. I call this an end-to-end high available connectivity between our on-premises infrast

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Secure your Azure SQL locally inside your vnet using service endpoints

Secure your Azure SQL locally inside your vnet using service endpoints For many companies, a throwback of using Azure SQL was the Public Access. After the latest Azure updates you can use the service endpoints to Secure your Azure SQL locally inside your vnet! For the time, the feature is available only at the West Central US, West US 2, and East US regions but soon more will follow. So, lets secure your Azure SQL locally inside your vnet! At the VNET creation blade, select the Microsoft.Sql s

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Azure Monitor for VMs – Health, Performance & Service Map

Get real insights about your Windows and Linux VMs & VMSSs performance and their dependencies with Azure Monitor. Integrate with Log Analytics for even more in depth analysis and retain the data over time. Health, Performance & Service Map of your VM in a dashboard. Deploy to Single VM For a single VM, go to the VMs blade, scroll down to the “Monitoring” section, select “Insights” and press “Try now” The Azure Monitor Insights Onboarding wizard will open. If your VM is already onboard

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