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Implementing Azure Solutions

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

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

Common Azure network architectures


Looking at the networking scenarios, the most common one is to integrate Azure and Office 365 directly into your MPLS. Every connection from any location is transmitted via the MPLS network.

The following diagram shows a short abstract of such an environment:

There are also options to use Azure as colocation and connect offices via a VPN. This option is often used by small or medium business companies. There every VPN connection terminates in Azure. Office 365 is reached via Internet from the Office directly:

Another very common form of setting up WAN links to offices or other data centers is to have a primary link via ExpressRoute and a secondary link via a Site 2 Site VPN with BGP enabled. So your services stay available for your users even if your MPLS fails. You only have a performance impact but stay in production. The rerouting will happen automatically because of the enabled BGP:

There are also common scenarios where Azure is used only for online services...