Matt Daines

Azure Application Gateway Client-Server Concepts Post March 19, 2025

In this post I describe some fundamental components of an Azure Application Gateway and how I try to explain it to others. I cover the client-server relationship between the client, the Application Gateway and the backend pool as well as how certificates are used in the connections.

KQL Notebook | Azure Firewall Logs Note March 16, 2025

An Azure engineers scrapbook of queries for filtering Azure Firewall logs.

KQL Notebook | Network Security Groups (NSG) Note March 16, 2025

An Azure engineers scrapbook of queries for filtering Azure Network Security Group logs.

Doing Things The Hard Way Post January 27, 2024

Why you shouldn't always take the easy option when it's available.

Authenticating as a Service Principal Post May 19, 2023

How to authenticate as a Service Principal in Azure with PowerShell

Enabling/Disabling Network Level Authentication (NLA) Post May 9, 2023

How to authenticate as a Service Principal in Azure with PowerShell