Before we get into understanding of Azure Active Directory (AAD), let us understand what is an Identity. What is an identity? An identity is an Object mostly userid with a password that is used for authentication / authorization. What is Azure Active Directory? Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is a cloud-based identity and access management service. This service helps your employees access external resources, such as Microsoft 365, the Azure portal, and thousands of other SaaS applications. Why do we need identities on Azure i.e., AAD? Azure AD or Identies on azure are needed for 1)login t ..read more

Vnet peering enable communication between vnets, with in the same region, different regions, different subscriptions and ofcourse different Tenants.  Vnets will helps with isolation which means resources accross vents will not communicate with each other, hence the need of Peering.  Peering between the Vnets in the same Region is called Regional Vnet Peering.  Peering between the Vnets in the different Regions is called Global Vnet Peering. Vnet Peering traffic will go through private network of azure, which give you below advantages.     *Secure    &n ..read more

Acquire the skills from Realtime expert to implement, maintain and monitor Microsoft Azure solutions. Skills measured for Az-104 Certification: Manage Azure identities and governance (15-20%) Implement and manage storage (15-20%) Deploy and manage Azure compute resources (20-25%) Configure and manage virtual networking (25-30%) Monitor and back up Azure resources (10-15 ..read more

In this lab, you will learn how to create an Azure Active Directory Guest user ids. Requirements:  Global Administrator role or any of the limited administrator directory roles such as guest inviter or user administrator that allows guest user creation. Log in to Azure portal and search for Azure Active Directory. Navigate to the Users section under Manage in Azure Active Directory. Click on New guest user to add a new guest user  Create a guest user id with the following details leave other option ..read more

 Goal:  In this lab, you will learn how to create an Azure Active Directory user id(s) using Azure Powershell. Requirements:  User should be part of Global Administration or User Administration Role. Create AAD User(s) using Powershell: Creation of user accounts using PowerShell on your local machine requires the following. However, you can also use Azure Powershell in Cloudshell step 1 is not required.   1) Azure Active Directory PowerShell Modules, here is the command that is required to install AAD PowerShell modules on your machine.   Install-Module AzureA ..read more

Goal:  In this lab, you will learn how to create an Azure Active Directory user id(s) using Portal and CLI. Requirements:  User should be part of Global Administration or User Administration Role. Create AAD User(s) using Azure Portal: 1) Log in to Azure portal 2) Search for a service Azure Active Directory 3) Navigate to the Users section under Manage in Azure Active Directory. 4) Click on New user to add a new user  User name:  vuser1 @ Default domain name (Copy the user name)  Name: vuser1 First name: vuser1 Last name: Password: Leave that ..read more

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In this article let us understand how to assign your organization's DNS servers IPs Addresses to  Azure hosted virtual machines. Before we see that couple of important points. Azure by default assigns an Azure-hosted DNS IP address which you can override. We don't assign a DNS IP address to the Nic at the OS layer as shown below image Azure allows you to define your own DNS Servers IP address at the VNET and at the Network Interface Card of the VM. DNS IPs defined at Network Interface Card will always override the ones defined VNET level.  Assigning ..read more

In this post let us have a quick look at how to configure private and public IP addresses as static. Setting Static Private IP Address: As we know in Azure it is the network interface card associated with the VMs that get IP addresses, the default dynamic IPs can be changed to static. As shown in the below image navigate to the networking section of the virtual machine to identify the network interface card(s) associated and move to network interface card settings by selecting the network interface card. Select IP Configurations option to see the private IPs as highlighted below. Se ..read more