Category: Azure

Designing a scalable, conflict‐free network across multiple environments is a key challenge in today’s cloud-centric world. Whether you’re deploying in Azure, AWS, on-premises, or across hybrid platforms, strategic IP address planning is essential.

This article covers how to avoid overlaps, calculate usable IP addresses in Azure, adopt best practices, and leverage powerful Azure tools for centralized management.

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In an era where enterprises are expanding globally, adopting hybrid cloud models, and demanding seamless connectivity, traditional networking architectures are struggling to keep up. Azure Virtual WAN (VWAN) emerges as a revolutionary solution, offering a unified, automated, and secure networking platform that simplifies global connectivity while enhancing performance and scalability. Designed with intent-driven principles, Azure VWAN allows network administrators to define what they want to achieve, while the platform handles the complexity of implementation.

This article dives deep into the advanced capabilities of Azure VWAN, exploring how it addresses modern networking challenges, simplifies traffic routing, and ensures robust security — all while providing the flexibility and scalability enterprises need to thrive in a connected world.

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By default, Azure AD Connect syncs all objects if we do not customize sync options. However, due to business requirement we need to filter out some users, groups and other objects based on multiple criteria’s. The good thing is, Azure AD Connect offers such flexibility to fine tune sync settings as per business requirement.

In this article, I will cover some of the common use cases and will customize Azure AD Connect sync rules as per those use cases.

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