Author: Aidan Finn

We are now in the middle of the second Azure (and Windows) semester of 2019. Planning for the first semester of 2020 is underway. And now we are just over 1 month away from Ignite, the week that is usually an explosion of announcements for Microsoft’s enterprise products.

The half-year point has passed meaning that Azure (and Windows/Windows Server) are into a new planning & development cycle.

It may be the middle of Summer but there is a lot going on with Azure, this is what you need to know about Azure for the month of July.

Each month Microsoft adds new features and updates existing products for Azure, here's the updates you need to know about for June.

During May, the month was filled with Azure announcements, here are the key items that you need to know about.

In my monthly summary, I will summarize all the Azure infrastructure news from April, which appeared to be a month for security announcements.

As we approach Build, Microsoft is ramping up the Azure announcements; here's everything that happened last month.

Even though February was a shorter month, there were still a number of significant Azure announcements that you should know about.

In this post, I will show you how to architect an Azure Firewall deployment where a centralized firewall will inspect traffic that is flowing across a VPN connection before it reaches the Azure virtual network(s) or returns to on-premises. Design Concept The premise of this design is a simple and, probably, a familiar one: anything… Read More

In this Aidan explains how one can create network rules in the Azure Firewall to allow transport layer traffic between subnets or virtual networks.

Here's how to publish an Azure service in a virtual network to the Internet using a NAT (DNAT) rule in the Azure Firewall.

Aidan shows you how to architect an Azure Firewall deployment where a centralized firewall will inspect many applications/services that are deployed into dedicated virtual networks (VNets).

In this post, I will explain how you can use Application Security Groups (ASGs) in addition with Network Security Groups (NSGs) to create secure network designs for virtual machines in Azure. Before you read this post, you should read Understanding Application Security Groups in the Azure Portal to understand the purpose of ASGs and how… Read More

This s how to design the deployment of an Azure Firewall in a single virtual network.

Here's how you how you can use Network Security Groups (NSGs) to secure the subnets of a typical virtual machine-based web application deployment in Azure.