Deploying and working with Azure Key Vault
What is Azure Key Vault? Azure Key Vault helps safeguard cryptographic keys and secrets used by cloud applications and services. By using Key Vault, you can encrypt keys and secrets (such as authentication keys, storage account keys, data encryption keys, .PFX files, and passwords) by using keys that are protected by hardware security modules (HSMs). […]
Internet facing Load Balancer with Availability set Configuration
We will look at how to create two virtual machines (Web Servers) and configure it in an availability set also deploy a public facing load balancer and distribute the requests across the virtual machines in the availability set. While doing this lab we will also look at the Network Security group in-bound rule creation to […]
Deploying a basic Windows VM in Azure with PowerShell
We will look at end to end commands to deploy a basic Windows VM on the Azure Before we begin the process make sure you have the required Azure module installed on your computer. Launch the PowerShell and enter the below command to login to your Azure Subscription. It will prompt with a Azure portal. […]
Azure Managed Disks VS Unmanaged Disks/Storage Accounts
What is Azure managed disks? Azure Managed Disks simplifies disk management for Azure IaaS VMs by managing the storage accounts associated with the VM disks. You only have to specify the type (Premium or Standard) and the size of disk you need, and Azure creates and manages the disk for you. What is Azure Storage […]
Deploy a Virtual Machine with a static Private IP in Azure
We will look at the configuration of setting up a static private IP for a Virtual machine in Azure. The use case for this setup is when you need to deploy a DNS or Domain Controller on the cloud. Well creating of Virtual machine procedure are same as for setting up a static IP for […]
Deploy a Virtual Machine with a static Public IP in Azure
Today we will look at the step by step procedure for deploying a virtual machine on the Azure with a static public IP configuration. So below are the step by step to do this. We will look at creating a Server 2016 VM and also see the configurations for VMNet and Subnet creation, Storage account […]
VNet Creation on Azure from PowerShell
We have already seen how to configure the VNet on the Azure from the console and today we will look at how to create the VNet from the Powershell also we will look at basic Powershell commands to help you on the VNet operations. First command is to create a resource group named “RenResourceGroup” in […]
Azure Active Directory and Azure AD Connect Installation and configuration
In this post we will look step by step installation and configuration for Azure Active directory and Azure AD Connect utility. Once you finish the below content you will get answers for the below questions. How to install and configure Azure Active Directory on the Azure portal? How to add your company domain under Azure […]
What is IdFix tool and how to use it?
IdFix tool is an inevitable tool while deploying Microsoft Azure or Office 365 etc. What it does is, it prepare directory attributes for synchronization with Microsoft cloud services. The tool helps to find any errors on the user objects and help to fix it before it sync it to the Microsoft cloud. Once you have […]
Azure AD Connect Installation Requirements/Best Practices
Azure AD Connect Installation Requirements/Best Practices If you plan to use your domain like renjithmenon.com you it is recommended to register the domain to get verified . Non-verified domain by default supports up to 50k objects but when you verify the domain the limit is increased to 300k objects. If you need more than 300k […]