Importing Palo Alto policies to Azure Firewall

I recently had a project where we had the chance to convert a Palo Alto ruleset to an Azure Firewall Policy. I had recently created a script to generate a Firewall Policy for Microsoft 365 endpoints, so the challenge was using that work as a basis to generate an Azure Firewall Policy out of the … Continue reading Importing Palo Alto policies to Azure Firewall

Azure Firewall rules for Office 365

This post is going to be a bit different than the rest, because I have no complex network designs with many boxes and IP addresses. Instead, I have been confronted with a different challenge: how can you configure Azure Firewall to allow traffic to Office 365 endpoints? Why would you want to do that? There … Continue reading Azure Firewall rules for Office 365

“You are doing your design reviews wrong”

I have the privilege of working in a team in Microsoft with very talented individuals, where we help Microsoft customers to overcome technical challenges with their Azure deployments. One of the most common engagements that we do for organizations using Azure is helping them to verify that their Azure designs fulfill their functional and non-functional … Continue reading “You are doing your design reviews wrong”

Run Azure Functions from your Quickstart ARM Templates

I was recently confronted with the following problem: how can I run code from inside an Azure ARM Quickstart Template? Well, if you don’t know ARM Templates, they are essentially a declarative description of objects as you want to have them in Azure, but they don’t allow to run code as such. For example, see … Continue reading Run Azure Functions from your Quickstart ARM Templates