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Implementing Azure Solutions

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke
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Implementing Azure Solutions

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure has numerous effective solutions that shape the future of any business. However, the major challenge that architects and administrators face are implementing these solutions appropriately. Our book focuses on various implementation scenarios that will help overcome the challenge of implementing Azure’s solutions in a very efficient manner and will also help you to prepare for Microsoft Architect exam. You will not only learn how to secure a newly deployed Azure Active Directory but also get to know how Azure Active Directory Synchronization could be implemented. To maintain an isolated and secure environment so that you can run your virtual machines and applications, you will implement Azure networking services. Also to manage, access, and secure your confidential data, you will implement storage solutions. Toward the end, you will explore tips and tricks to secure your environment. By the end, you will be able to implement Azure solutions such as networking, storage, and cloud effectively.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Solution in Azure


As you have learned so far, with Microsoft Cloud services, you have a wide range of services that are mostly integrated with each other. The challenge now is to put those parts together to match the expectations of your environment.

The next few pages are an introduction to a possible solution, with an explanation as to why some of the design decisions were made.

Solution for a wide area network

At the beginning of every Azure project, you need to plan your WAN environment and where to place your Azure instances.

So, you look at the company footprint and geographical distribution of the office and the users. If the company has only a few offices in Europe or another region, it is mostly enough to have one Azure instance in one region.

In our case, we have many offices of different sizes around the globe, so it is only necessary to have at least one Azure instance on each continent. In our case, we would need one in Europe, one in the US, and one in Asia, near China.

In the next...