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This is how I got a Site to Site (S2S) connection from an Azure Virtual Network to Amazon Web Services VPC running using a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS VM on AWS as a VPN Device For the graphically inclined this is what we are doing except the on-premise bit is an AWS VPC...

Just getting my mac to connect to an Azure IKEv2 VPN P2S connection using certs generated by EasyRSA Assuming you have already init'd and created your ca.crt using EasyRSA. See my previous post regarding this. Format the ca.crt to copy into the the Root Certificate...

So you can't rename an Azure VM as this is immutable but you can delete the VM (leaving the disks, network etc) and then navigate to the disk and choose the Create VM option and specify the new name. Here you can see a vm-vneta is a normal vm. vm-vnetb was originally...

If you define a /23 i.e. 192.168.0.0/23 then the there are only two possible subnets available for /24 192.168.0/24 and 192.168.1.0/24

Just testing the Virtual Machine Contributor role and if you have public IP and Network Security Group selected (things that you would assume would be wanted when creating a VM) you get a Validation failure {"code":"InvalidTemplateDeployment","message":"Deployment...

When calling to a Resource manager API from Windows and Linux there are some differences to the URL. Just got caught with this because of a copy and paste from one to another. Windows with lower case "resourcegroups" works (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri...

Trying to follow https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/managed-identities-azure-resources/tutorial-linux-vm-access-arm and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/managed-identities-azure-resources/tutorial-windows-vm-access-arm and...

So I created a Security group in Azure Active Directory named "Development" and then tried to assign it to the "Website Contributor" role with less than stellar results But going to Azure AD and getting the object ID for the "Development" group and changing fro...

I am on a Mac the Microsoft documentation covers Powershell, makecert and Linux instructions for creating Self-Signed certs for the OpenVPN P2S configuration. However I prefer the familiar and I've used OpenVPN before on Linux and the bundled easyrsa utility included...