Azure hybrid networking, specifically exam AZ‑800,
calls out something called the Azure Network Adapter.
It sounds kind of mysterious, doesn't it?
But essentially what Azure Network Adapter is,
it's simply a convenient way to stand up a
Point‑To‑Site VPN for standalone servers.
Really, it's nothing more than that.
There are some restrictions.
You configure this strictly through the Windows Admin Center,
so you'll want to have WAC installed on the machine,
and you register your WAC server with Azure.
You know in Windows Server,
you can set up WAC as a gateway where it runs as a service and supports
multiple remote connections. That's always convenient.
I'll show you how to register your Windows Admin Center
server with Azure in the upcoming demo.
And what's even more convenient is when you sign in to your account to
authenticate and then enable the Azure Network Adapter for a host,
Windows Admin Center can actually orchestrate the creation of the VNet gateway
if it doesn't already exist in the target virtual network.
Isn't that convenient?
So once you've completed the setup,
now that server in question has a persistent VPN client connection that you can
turn on and turn off at your convenience that now enables that server to go
into the virtual network and access resources with private IPs with its own personal tunnel. Pretty convenient stuff.