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Deploying a Windows 10 VPN Profile from Intune for Azure VPN Gateway Basic Sku

Posted on February 17, 2020 by Arjan Mensch — 19 Comments

Azure VPN Gateway Basic Sku.. The poor man’s P2S VPN solution. Or is it? If you check the notes on the Azure VPN Basic Sku P2S solution: This table is taken from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/vpn-gateway/vpn-gateway-about-vpngateways and it shows the limitations of the…

Tagged with: Azure, Intune, Lab, Point-to-Site, Virtual Networks, VPN
Posted in Automation, Azure, Powershell, Step-by-Step guide, Virtual Networking

Building an Azure lab – Implementing S2S (Site-to-Site) VPN – Part 2: Multi Virtual Networks

Posted on December 2, 2017 by Arjan Mensch — Leave a comment

In Part 1 of this series I created a Site-to-Site VPN setup for my Azure MSDN subscription to my local network. This will be a base for this post. This part will cover the basics to add another Virtual Network…

Tagged with: Azure, Lab, Site-to-Site, Virtual Networks, VPN
Posted in Azure, RRAS, Step-by-Step guide

Building an Azure lab – Implementing S2S (Site-to-Site) VPN using Azure Portal or Powershell – Part 1

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Arjan Mensch — 4 Comments

Update: Part 2 is now available! Quite a mouthfull, but that’s because I posted a guide for Site-to-site VPN (Building an Azure lab – Implementing S2S (Site-to-Site) VPN) earlier as well, but that guide is based on the classic portal.…

Tagged with: Azure, Lab, Site-to-Site, Virtual Networks, VPN
Posted in Azure, RRAS, Step-by-Step guide

Building an Azure lab – Step-by-step Azure Automation DSC

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Arjan Mensch — 10 Comments

This post will take you through the steps necessary to configure Azure Automation DSC using the ARM (Azure Resource Manager) Portal UI. As always in the Building an Azure lab series: Disclaimer for those who want to build based on…

Tagged with: ARM, Azure, Azure Resource Manager, DSC, Lab, Powershell
Posted in Azure, DSC, Step-by-Step guide

Building an Azure lab – Customizing the P2S (Point-to-Site) VPN Client

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Arjan Mensch — 12 Comments

As I mentioned in the previous post, the Client VPN software that is generated for you to be able to connect your client to the P2S (Point-to-Site) Azure VPN solution, has a few shortcomings, at least for my situation. The…

Tagged with: Azure, Customizing, Lab, Point-to-Site, Virtual Networks, VPN
Posted in Azure, Customize, Networking, Step-by-Step guide, Virtual Networking

Building an Azure lab – Implementing P2S (Point-to-Site) VPN

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Arjan Mensch — Leave a comment

In the previous post I walked you through the steps I needed to take to create a Site-to-Site VPN connection between the Azure Virtual Network and my local network. Azure supports another type of VPN called P2S (Point-to-Site) VPN. This…

Tagged with: Azure, Certificates, Lab, Point-to-Site, VPN
Posted in Azure, Networking, RRAS, Step-by-Step guide, Virtual Networking, Windows 2012 R2

Building an Azure lab – Implementing S2S (Site-to-Site) VPN

Posted on December 3, 2015 by Arjan Mensch — 3 Comments

Update: I’ve posted a version using the Azure Portal and/or PowerShell. You can find the updated post here. The next step in preparing an Azure lab for this blog would be to connect my on-premises network to a Virtual Network…

Tagged with: Azure, Lab, Site-to-Site, Virtual Networks, VPN
Posted in Azure, Networking, RRAS, Step-by-Step guide, Virtual Networking, Windows 2012 R2

Building an Azure lab – Integrating and federating with Azure Active Directory

Posted on November 29, 2015 by Arjan Mensch — 4 Comments

If you have seen some of my posts, specifically the posts for step-by-step guiding Remote Desktop Services installation, configuration and modification, you might have noticed that I use a very basic lab setup. Simply running the Hyper-V role on my…

Tagged with: Active Directory, AD, ADFS, Azure, Federation, Lab
Posted in Azure, Federation, Step-by-Step guide