I want to be able to provision Azure VMs and attach them to on-premise AD. I have read the Azure documentation and there is a requirement for a site-to-site VPN connection.In my case, having a VPN device is not feasible. Would it be possible to do the same with a point-to-site VPN connection? I haven't seen any guidance on the Azure website regarding the same.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-networks-install-replica-active-directory-domain-controller/
While I haven't considered using Point-to-site where my point would be my whole on-premises network, I can assure you that you do not need a special VPN device to make Site-to-Site VPN with Azure.
Check this dedicated article on how to create Azure Site-to-Site VPN with Windows Server Routing and Remote Access.
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I got Azure credits, how do I make a simple VPN?
I recently got some Azure credits through a hackathon. How do I create a simple VPN on Azure. It need not be too feature rich, I just wanna use it to access blocked or region specific websites.
I saw on Azure portal that there is virtual machine and virtual network. I don't exactly need a VM, just want to redirect all network traffic through the virtual network.
How do I do this in Azure, Has anyone done anything similar in Azure?
Free VPN are slow and have bugs and paid VPN are expensive & I would like to use my azure credits to create my own VPN.
It sounds like you want to use Azure VPN similar to a consumer VPN like ExpressVPN or NordVPN which protects your client while you surf the Internet. Azure VPN is not designed to be used to surf the Internet. Azure VPN is a service that allows you to create a secure Site-to-Site or Point-to-Site VPN into an Azure Vnet. This allows you to communicate securely with resources in Azure without exposing them with a Public IP.
A VPN gateway is a specific type of virtual network gateway that is used to send encrypted traffic between an Azure virtual network and an on-premises location over the public Internet. You can also use a VPN gateway to send encrypted traffic between Azure virtual networks over the Microsoft network
I have an Azure VM that I want to have clients to be able to access. I have used OpenVPN in the past, but was wondering if there are any Azure offerings that will allow Windows clients to access that VM.
Yes, 3 actually:
site-to-site
point-to-site
express route
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/vpn-gateway/vpn-gateway-about-vpngateways
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/expressroute/
We have an Azure WebJob running on an App Service connected to a vNET via Point-to-Site connection.
That same vNET is then connected to the on-premise network via a Site-to-Site VPN connection.
Routing is set up so to the Site-to-Site conn so that that the IP range of the Azure vNET (172.27.0.0/24) is sent from OnPrem > Azure. This can be tested by logging in to a VM inside of the vNET to query on premise resources - this works fine, and as expected.
If the same request (to a REST API) is sent from the WebJob, things do not work.
The IP range of the Point-to-Site (172.27.1.144/28) does not intersect with that of the vNET, so i am wondering if we need to also route this range "back across" the Site-to-Site connection also?
Another alternative is that a routing table within Azure needs to have a manual entry, somehow?
Any tips on how to troubleshoot / get this working would be much appreciated.
The IP range of the Point-to-Site (172.27.1.144/28) does not intersect
with that of the vNET, so i am wondering if we need to also route this
range "back across" the Site-to-Site connection also?
You need to do that, indeed. Not only that, you need to configure this network range (172.27.1.144/28) on your on-premises router too - so it recognises and accepts the traffic.
But in order to make the routing from the Point-to-Site (Azure app service) to the on-premise over the Site-to-Site VPN Connection, you will need to use a Virtual Appliance which is capable of forwarding the traffic.
For sake of simplicity and cost savings, you could just use Azure Hybrid Connections to connect Azure Web App / Web Job to on-premise Resource.
You can also refer to the documentation here, which lists the limitations of connecting App Service Plan to a Virtual Network, namely:
There are some things that VNET Integration does not support
including:
mounting a drive
AD integration
NetBios
private site access
Please note the last one - private site access - this is your on-premises.
I have a couple of queries about Azure VNet to On-Premises Site-to-Site networking -
As per Azure, Site-to-Site connection between On-Premises and Azure VNet should have a VPN tunnel. For this to happen there should be a VPN supported device at On-Prem and also a VPN Gateway at VNet. Is my understanding correct ?
Secondly, if a custom device capable of VPN functionality is deployed at On-Prem as well as a VM in Azure VNet, can they establish a connection between them without default Azure provided Site-to-Site VPN tunnel ? Is it possible to establish a network in Site-to-Site without VPN tunnel like with just igw's(Internet Gateways in AWS Cloud)?
What is the significance of next hop being "Internet" in azure route table ?
Yes. This device should also have a real external ip address, not behind the NAT.
Yes, you could use, say, Sophos to create VPN without using Azure's default VPN.
Internet. Represents the default Internet gateway provided by the Azure Infrastructure. (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-networks-udr-overview/)
We are going to work on Azure BizTalk Service + Service Bus Integration for one of our customer. I am exploring those two concepts. but in the mean time, I have also noticed, there is concept of "Site-To-Site" VPN connection" to establish Cloud to On-primes Network.
Can you please let me know in which scenario we need to choose Site-to-Site VPN connection?
Thanks,
Vinoth
You would establish a site-to-site VPN when you want to connect your Azure subscription to your on-premises data center. It could be that your BizTalk or even Service Bus infrastructure is hosted on-premises and you need to connect to it to provide functionality to your cloud service.
We would also use a S2S VPN connection when hosting virtual machines in Azure and want to connect them to networks on-premises. This would let users access these services over our own private network.