

How to Activate the Bastion Service Pre-step: Create a separate Azure Subnet for Bastion In a nutshell Just-in-time (JIT) virtual machine (VM) access can be used to lock down inbound traffic to your Azure VMs, reducing exposure to attacks while providing easy access to connect to VMs when needed. This is something you could achieve with the also not so old service Just-in-time VM Access, it’s an Azure Security Center feature you can leverage. One other alternative way to reduce exposure to a brute force attack to your Azure Virtual Desktop environment is to limit (and IP whitelist – filter) the amount of time that a port is open. I’ve recorded a short video after writing and creating my Azure Bastion Service, and to give you a sneak preview on the end result of this blog article – I’ve uploaded a video to show you the easiness and value.

The service is completely HTML5 based and works from every modern web browser. Remote Access my Azure Virtual Desktop imagesĪzure Bastion is a new Azure Platform service you could leverage to enable external access to your resources in Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).Deploy Azure Bastion from the Azure Marketplace.Create a separate Azure Subnet for Bastion

In some simple configuration clicks – and most importantly without exposing any RDP (or SSH) ports to the outside internet – you can access your Azure Virtual Desktop Virtual Machines in Azure.Ĭurious about how to do this? Please continue reading… Table of ContentsĬlick on the title to jump to that spot in this article: Azure Bastion is completely web-based and works via SSL.

“From an security perspective this is the most worst you can do, because once hackers are in – you’ve got access to almost everything!”Īzure Bastion is a relatively new Azure service that can simplify as well as improve remote connectivity – as a secure better alternative for stepping stone servers to your Azure Virtual Desktop – and infrastructure Virtual Machines on Microsoft Azure. We all remember (and some of you still use them, unfortunately) stepping stone, or also called jump management servers to manage and maintain your Remote Desktop, or infrastructure server environment internally (and externally) through a Remote Desktop Connection with the most common reason it’s just easy?
