Image Source: https://big2smart.com/the-power-bi-gateway-a-practical-case/ Continue from previous post, Microsoft Power BI Desktop Connecting to Oracle Autonomous Database, in this post, I will write about Power BI service connecting to ADB through Power BI Gateway. As usual, only key steps are written in detail, some steps are overlapped from the previous post…

Image Source: https://medium.com/oracledevs/connecting-microsoft-power-bi-to-oracle-autonomous-database-69ddfcb712ca Due to project requirement, this is a brief step by step walk through Connecting Power BI Desktop to Oracle Autonomous Database. Only the key step is written in detail. Please see all referenced posts at the bottom. Steps: Provision Autonomous DB and download client credential (Wallet)

Image: https://petri.com/how-to-architect-an-azure-firewall-with-a-vpn-gateway Site to Site VPN connection is commonly used in hybrid structure. So in this post, I will show you the key steps for this architecture to work. I have three Vnets for this lab, Cloud Vnet with VM subnet: 172.16.0.0/24 DMZ Hub with FW subnet: 192.168.3.0/24, Gateway subnet…

Image:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/secure-hybrid-network This lab is pretty simple. The main idea is to filter Vnet peering connections. There are three Vnets in this architecture, one as hub, hosting Azure Firewall and other two as spokes, hosting VMs. Spokes will peer with hub, traffics between spokes are forwarded to Azure Firewall for filtering…

Image: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/example-scenario/gateway/firewall-application-gateway#application-gateway-before-firewall Same as before, requests came in from customer regarding couple Azure Firewall scenarios. In order to respond with profession, a prior lab is definitely needed. Usual and common steps are omitted. Only key steps are recorded. For this structure, packets from client to AG must forward to FW…

Azure Service Points (SE) and Azure Private Link (PL) are two pretty fundamental and essential services when we are talking about network security in Azure. There are similarities and differences between these two services and sometimes, the…

Image：https://www.mobilise.cloud/azure-to-aws-vpn-with-dynamic-routing/ Image：https://jackstromberg.com/2021/03/establishing-an-aws-vpn-tunnel-to-azure-virtual-wan-active-active-bpg-configuration/ In the previous post, I wrote about Static Site-to-Site VPN Between Azure Vnet and AWS VPC. In this post, I will write about dynamic VPN routing between Azure and AWS using BGP protocol. Assuming all necessary resources such as, Vnet, VM, vWAN, VPC, Transit Gateway etc are already…

Image：https://github.com/ricmmartins/azure-vpn-aws Okay.. believe it or not, it took me almost two days to figure out how to configure BGP and static VPN between Azure and AWS. That’s kinda frustrating but much relief and delighted when I finally did it! I am also glad that I found articles on internet helped…

Image：https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-wan/virtual-wan-about Recently one of my on going projects requires centralized routing, multi location connectivity, custom DNS settings and with security. The best solution is Azure Virtual WAN integrated with Azure Firewall. …