Reading Time: 2 minutesIssue On a recent project, a routine change was made to one of the Azure Firewall rules. This resulted in the provisioning state to change from “Succeeded” to “Failed” on the Firewall Policy: After inspecting the logs,…
Reading Time: 5 minutesIntroduction When it comes to protecting web traffic, it can be difficult to identify the best method of protecting connectivity. Azure Application Gateway can be placed before Azure Firewall. Inbound web traffic goes through both resources to…
Reading Time: 5 minutesIntroduction When organisations embark on their cloud adoption journey, it can be a daunting task and difficult to decide where to begin. Utilising Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) is always a good starting point to get familiar…
Reading Time: 5 minutesIntroduction Azure Firewall is a fully managed firewall service provided by Microsoft. It was only released in 2018, but there have been significant improvements during that time. Azure Firewall premium was also made generally available on July…
Reading Time: 3 minutesIntroduction If you pass the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies and AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design exams, it will enable you to achieve the Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification. I took both exams a couple of weeks…
Reading Time: 3 minutesIntroduction After deciding to focus on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) as my next challenge, I wanted to put my learning to the test. Yesterday, I managed to clear the Hashicorp Terraform Associate exam. The purpose of this…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIssue I declared multiple variables in a “terraform.tfvars” file, but when I ran “Terraform plan”, it insisted that I “Enter a value”. This is far from desired: Note: In this example, the state file is stored…
Reading Time: 3 minutesMicrosoft recently announced that in-line enablement of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) during the creation of a Virtual Machine (VM) is now generally available. This streamlines the Disaster Recovery (DR) process as you don’t have to enable ASR…
Reading Time: 3 minutesIntroduction I’ve been a long-standing Microsoft OneNote user and when Notion hit the scene, I was left with a tough decision. Do I drop OneNote and fully invest my attention into Notion? Notion continues to gain traction…
Reading Time: 3 minutesScenario Active Directory has been configured on Windows Server 2016. The identities stored on-premise now need to be synchronised with Azure AD. This guide will walk you through the steps to successfully sync the on-premise AD accounts…