One of the great things at Microsoft is the interaction with very smart colleagues. A question was posed regarding DNS. Most admins will know that DNS uses port 53, but is that TCP or UDP?
The answer is Consultant's answer …
One issue when cutting over services or performing datacentre disaster recovery operations consists of three little letters – DNS.
DNS records have a time to live (TTL) and depending on the zone file configuration, it could be several hours or …
In the previous post Load Balancing Azure AD FS Services we looked at using Azure RM to deploy and load balance AD FS services. This is the follow-up post to deploy the Web Application Proxy (WAP) servers and its associated …
Depending upon how your organisation has deployed Azure there may or may not be a need to have RDP access to Azure VMs from the Internet. In cases where there is a site to site VPN (S2S) the S2S VPN …
The below is a repro of a customer issue where they were unable to RDP to an Azure RM VM from the Internet. Previously this was not something they had setup as connecting to VMs was provided by a site …
As mentioned in this blog's previous posts on deploying AD FS, one option is to deploy all or part of the AD FS solution in Azure. This is very valuable if there is insufficient capacity on-premises or if you only …
New? Well some options are not that new really. Others are however!
Sometimes it is the little things in life that can help immensely. Take our venerable friend, netstat! Even though it has been around for many moons folks …