As part of a recent project to upgrade some legacy infrastructure and split services across both Azure and AWS I found myself needing to migrate a UniFi instance. Previously hosted on a Windows 2019 Azure VM I was hoping to achieve a few things – I wont go into too much detail about the first … Read more
Following on from my last post discussing micro segmentation within an Azure secured hub, I will now cover deploying internet facing resources, including app gateways, into the same secured VWAN hub architecture. When deploying an application gateway into a secured hub connected spoke vnet, we are faced with a dilemma – the app gateway must … Read more
A very common Azure network topology found in larger enterprise environments is that of a hub and spoke using Azure virtual WAN and secure hubs along with an NVA or Azure firewall. Having recently deployed this exact hub and spoke scenario into two twinned regions with an Azure firewall in each a question arose around … Read more
Recently it was brought to my attention that one of our Azure SQL managed instances was not sending SMTP mail via our on prem SMTP server, with an error suggesting it could not make a network connection. But, surely not… I had checked the outbound NSG rules and on prem firewall rules, in both cases … Read more