Kieran Jacobsen is the Head of Information Technology at Readify, a Microsoft MVP and regular speaker at conferences throughout Australia.
All in Azure
The 7th Edition of the Global Azure Bootcamp - Melbourne, Australia. This year the bootcamp will be on Saturday 27th of April 2019.
Azure Automation State Configuration (previously Azure Automation DSC), is a service provided by Azure that allows you to write, manage and compile PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) configurations and assign these configurations to target virtual machines (or any server or workstation to be honest). On its own, State Configuration provides some basic configuration examples, but its true power comes form the ability for you to define your own configurations.
DNS is one of those critical systems that never gets the attention it deserves. Every organisation relies on DNS. It is critical for the smooth operation of your business and yet, it's rarely considered as important as web and email. Your customers can’t find your corporate website or email servers without DNS, without DNS your business isn’t online. People shouldn’t be required to remember an IP address (something that's next to impossible with IPv6) just to access the corporate intranet!
It was a wonderful experience to present at the Azure Global Bootcamp in Melbourne this year. This year I spoke about possible methods or patterns for securing Azure resources. This is an extremely board topic, though I focused on App Services, Virtual Network Endpoints and ARM templates.
I'm pleased to announce Version 1.0 of AzurePublicIPAddresses. This version includes support 6 new Azure regions:
Australia Central
Australia Central 2
UK North
UK South 2
North Europe 2 (name TBC)
East Europe (name TBC)
This release also represents a major milestone since the modules creation back in March 2016. The module has proven to be very stable, and hence I'm now giving it the stable 1.0 moniker. I'm confident that the existing design should support any new regions or source XML files that Microsoft may release without the need for breaking changes.
I'm pleased to announce that my PowerShell for working with Azure’s public IP address listings now supports the new Azure Regions in France and Germany. This release, 0.9, introduces some minor breaking changes, needed to support the Germany regions.
I’m a big fan of Intune’s device compliance policies and Azure Active Directory’s (AAD) conditional access rules. They're one piece of the puzzle in moving to a [Beyond Corp][5] model, that I believe is the future of enterprise networks.
Several days ago, a post titled: Microsoft Resnet - DNS Configuration Web Vulnerabilitygrabbed my interest. It has an innocuous title, and I hadn’t recalled anyone else talking about a Microsoft DNS Vulnerability. The post wasn't that long, the description and the proof-of-concept are only a few paragraphs in length; however what I did discover was an interesting vulnerability, one that, I feel, is going to become more and more prevalent with the use of Platform As A Service (PaaS) technologies like Azure App Services.
