Any Azure Guru's among the forums?

[Lance]

Azure network security groups won't allow use of DNS names.
So your choices are:
1) A firewall appliance that does allow DNS names. I'm not sure if any on the marketplace do that and they're costly as they usually need a D2 VM as a minimum to run.
2) VPN
3) Is strong authentication not suitable? Maybe set it to lockout for an hour after 5 failed attempts
4) A Linux VM running as a firewall as you can get quite funky with that and won't need a D2 VM.

[garethevans1986]

VPN into the network. It's never a good idea having a windows server with port 3389 open to the public either.

Gareth

[mattfx]

Try and send Lance a PM - he's a cloud god

Or, pay for a static IP from your provider. I'm with PlusNet and they charged me a one-off fee of a fiver to have a fixed IP for the length of the contract. Best internet provider out there IMO.

Edit: Hadn't seen, he had already replied! Teach me to read the whole thread before commenting!

[mattfx]

VPN into the network. It's never a good idea having a windows server with port 3389 open to the public either.

Gareth

I always change my RDS services to run over a different port - usually something like 4489 so I can remember!

[Lance]

Try and send Lance a PM - he's a cloud god

Or, pay for a static IP from your provider. I'm with PlusNet and they charged me a one-off fee of a fiver to have a fixed IP for the length of the contract. Best internet provider out there IMO.

Edit: Hadn't seen, he had already replied! Teach me to read the whole thread before commenting!

Blasphemy.... There's only one cloud god.

[SimonMac]

Try and send Lance a PM - he's a cloud god

Or, pay for a static IP from your provider. I'm with PlusNet and they charged me a one-off fee of a fiver to have a fixed IP for the length of the contract. Best internet provider out there IMO.

Edit: Hadn't seen, he had already replied! Teach me to read the whole thread before commenting!

They don't provide static IP's

[eek]

They don't provide static IP's

Who doesn't?

[SimonMac]

Who doesn't?

Vodafone!

[eek]

Vodafone!

Yep - good luck there. But how often does the ip address actually change...