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110118 0151 HowtobuildS1 240x180 - How to build Sophos XG firewall at Azure Hyper-V Nested VM for free

How to build Sophos XG firewall at Azure Hyper-V Nested VM for free

Have you been followed my previously blog to build up Hyper-V nested virtual machine on Microsoft Azure? If you don’t, you better build it right now, because this is pre-requisites and you will get lots of benefit for your lab or even production environment, you can reference this link and build it. If you did, congratulation! You can create a nested gest virtual machine and install Firewall (e.g. Sophos XG, Fortinet…) for free, why we still need to build firewall at our Azure Hyper-V nested environment? Because it supports lots functions that we cannot get the functions for free from Azure, e.g. server load balance, firewall, SNAT, application filter, IPS…and so on, we also can use it for LAB or simulate issues or POC. I am going to show how to build Sophos XG here.

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Hyper-V nested VM with multiple IP addresses Port Forwarding at Azure

As we know, you can easy to create VMs, Firewalls, Load Balancers on Microsoft Azure, you also can make routing path change but all of them will cost you lots of money, it depends on how many virtual devices or virtual machines that you created.

070518 2300 HowtoINSTAL2 240x180 - How to INSTALL BACKUP & REPLICATION 9.5 UPDATE 3a

How to INSTALL BACKUP & REPLICATION 9.5 UPDATE 3a

Veeam released the service pack 3a on July, it includes to fix some support issues and it also add to support some current platforms – Microsoft Windows Server 1803, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V 1803, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 1801, Microsoft Windows 10 April 2018 Update, VMware vSphere 6.7, VMware vCloud Director 9.1…. and added support for Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure for environments with ExpressRoute or site-to-site VPN connectivity to Azure.

050618 2208 HowtoAddAVi1 240x180 - How to Add A Visitor Counter That Also Sees Which Country the Visitor Was From (FOR FREE)

How to Add A Visitor Counter That Also Sees Which Country the Visitor Was From (FOR FREE)

Hello there GDM fans today I am going to be telling you how to add a Visitor Counter which also shows which country the visitor was from when they visited. First of all, I am sorry for not uploading lately. I have been really busy over the past few weeks but I might be okay now. Anyways, let’s get right into the tutorial!

050618 0250 SITETOSITEV26 240x180 - STEP BY STEP TO BUILD SITE-TO-SITE VPN FROM SOPHOS XG FIREWALL TO AZURE

STEP BY STEP TO BUILD SITE-TO-SITE VPN FROM SOPHOS XG FIREWALL TO AZURE

oday, I would like to tell you how to build a site-to-site VPN from Sophos XG firewall to Azure, if you have no budget to buy a hardware base firewall for your home office or lab, no worry, you also can download and install at Microsoft Hyper-V (or others) Virtual Machine and it’s free!!

041118 0000 HyperVSetti6 240x180 - Hyper-V Setting Up the Virtual Machine and Also other stuff Pt.2 #VirtualMachines #Microsoft

Hyper-V Setting Up the Virtual Machine and Also other stuff Pt.2 #VirtualMachines #Microsoft

Welcome back GDM fans and let’s continue about the blog about Hyper-V, remember that I am using Windows 2016 Server so I am setting it up a little differently than a normal windows setup. 1. So first, of course you have to right click your virtual machine and press connect.

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Migrate Exchange Services from On-premises to Office 365 PART 2- Deploy Azure AD Connect

Have you been follow my previously post steps to add your domain to Office 365? if not please check my previously post and do it. If you did and then it’s time to deploy Azure AD connect to sync your on-premises AD to Azure AD (Office 365).
You can download and install Azure AD Connect to your ADFS server or you also can install it at your domain server if you won’t use ADFS server for your infrastructure. you can install Azure Ad Connect with Express settings but I recommend install it with Customized settings, because you can adjust settings to match your requirements.

040718 2002 MigrateExch3 240x180 - Migrate Exchange Services from On-premises to Office 365 PART 1- Pre-requisites, Add On-Premises Domain and Deploy Certificate

Migrate Exchange Services from On-premises to Office 365 PART 1- Pre-requisites, Add On-Premises Domain and Deploy Certificate

The process described mainly focuses on a typical transition of Exchange services to Office 365 environment, converting the Exchange servers to Office 365 CAS role, HUB role and MBX role. Additional role options such as the Unified Messaging Server role and Edge Transport role, are out-of-scope within this document.