Azure services

Step-by-Step Guide: Reduce Latency between Azure VMs by using proximity placement group (PowerShell Guide)

The latency between two servers located in two regions is normally higher than the latency between two servers located in the same data center or the same rack. High latency between application servers has a direct impact on the overall performance of the application. By placing applications servers in the same physical location, we can reduce the latency. When it comes to Azure VMs, we can…
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Step-by-Step Guide: Configure Entra ID lifecycle workflow to trigger mover task on user profile changes

Microsoft Entra Permissions Management – Part 01 – How to onboard Azure Subscription ?

Azure services

Step-by-Step Guide: Create Azure Windows Virtual Machine from a Snapshot (PowerShell Guide)

Virtual Machine Snapshots are the quickest way to recover a virtual machine from a disaster. Snapshot is a copy of the virtual machines’ disk file at a given point of time. There are situations where we may need to get certain data out from snapshot without restoring a complete virtual machine. The best way to do that is to create a virtual machine from the snapshot and then retrieve the…
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Step-by-Step Guide: Configure Entra ID lifecycle workflow to trigger mover task on user profile changes

Microsoft Entra Permissions Management – Part 01 – How to onboard Azure Subscription ?

Azure services

Step-by-Step Guide: Control Inbound Internet traffic with Azure Firewall DNAT (PowerShell Guide)

I have a web server running in my on-premises network. I like to allow access to it from the internet via TCP port 443. To do that, I need to create two types of rules in my edge firewall. I need a NAT (Network Address Translation) rule to map a public IP address to the private IP address of the webserver. I also need an ACL rule to allow only relevant traffic (TCP 443). This ensures the traffic…
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Step-by-Step Guide: Configure Entra ID lifecycle workflow to trigger mover task on user profile changes

Microsoft Entra Permissions Management – Part 01 – How to onboard Azure Subscription ?

Microsoft Entra ID

Step-by-Step Guide: Azure Active Directory Password-less authentication using SM

As we know, passwords are no longer strong. In Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (2017), it says, 81% of hacking-related breaches used either stolen or weak passwords. Multi-factor authentication can provide an extra layer of security to the sign-in process but it doesn’t eliminate the requirement for passwords. In one of my previous blog posts, I explain how we can enable Azure…
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Step-by-Step Guide : Process Entra ID Entitlement Management Access Package on-behalf of another user (preview)

Step-by-Step Guide: Configure Entra ID lifecycle workflow to use Custom Security Attributes