Azure Bastion
An Azure service that provides private and fully managed Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and Secure Shell (SSH) access to virtual machines.
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Capacity of Azure Bastion: How Many Users Can It Support?
Hello @Anonymous ! What is the capacity of Azure Bastion in terms of the number of users supported by the service? I couldn't find information on how to view the supported user count for the service.
asked 2023-06-20T20:40:17.3533333+00:00
Marvin Mauricio Conejo Artavia
60
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commented 2025-01-23T11:05:53.08+00:00
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Abrar Adil S
221
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Using Third-Party MFA for Azure Bastion
Is there any documentation to use any third party MFA solution with Azure bastion?
asked 2022-03-28T16:32:03.747+00:00
CJ Shields
41
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commented 2025-01-21T12:52:16.6666667+00:00
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Jadhav, Vaibhav
0
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Azure Bastion host using Azure Active Directory credentials..
Are we able to access VM via Azure Bastion host using Azure Active Directory credentials?? I have followed instructions to set bastion up and still getting the bellow error. I am able to sign in using the admin credentials but not the Azure AD…
asked 2022-08-08T20:46:15.947+00:00
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Cesar Martinez
21
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commented 2025-01-14T14:24:56.86+00:00
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Eldin Egrlic
0
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How to display of the VM via Bastion to fill the browser page?
When connecting a VM via Bastion on Firefox, the desktop of the VM is displayed so small you can barely see it and it is completely unusable. I get it since yesterday, before the complete browser was used to display the VM. I guess this is due to the…
asked 2025-01-10T07:07:41.02+00:00
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Loïc Mouchard
25
Reputation points
commented 2025-01-14T10:00:42.25+00:00
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Mykhailo Pakhota
15
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2 answers
The network connection to the bastion host appears unstable
Unable to connect through virtual machine via Azure Bastion and getting the error "The network connection to the bastion host appears unstable".
asked 2022-05-09T11:00:59.443+00:00
RaziEngg
6
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edited a comment 2025-01-03T14:16:05.7733333+00:00
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FrankSoliman-2421
0
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Not able to connect to VM using Bastion service
I have configured the Baston service, but it is not giving not connecting once I click on connect, here is the error. Please suggest. Thank you g
asked 2023-01-01T11:56:51.547+00:00
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sns
9,241
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answered 2024-12-12T14:43:38.2633333+00:00
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Prithivi Rajan
0
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Azure Bastion
Why if we connect to the azure VM using bastion always get error login failed, but if remote using RDP with same credentials, we able to login.
asked 2024-12-12T00:21:46.5+00:00
Handian Sudianto
5,666
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commented 2024-12-12T06:17:01.4333333+00:00
Handian Sudianto
5,666
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Identity subscription AD VM access
Hi All! I have a quick question on best practices when deploying Domain controllers in a dedicated Azure Identity subscription (as per the…
asked 2024-12-10T10:32:18.5966667+00:00
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Eddie Vincent
105
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commented 2024-12-10T11:10:57.07+00:00
Eddie Vincent
105
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Receive "There was an error creating a session" when using Bastion Developer tier to connect to VM
Hello Forum! I decided to start using the Free Azure Bastion Developer SKU on one of our tenants where I do not need the Bastion Standard or Basic. Deleted the old Bastion Deleted the AzureBastionSubnet since it is not used by the Developer tier. …
asked 2024-12-02T13:47:24.6066667+00:00
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Johan Ponten [Avian]
0
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commented 2024-12-04T20:57:39.6866667+00:00
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Rohith Vinnakota
2,090
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
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All users are inexplicably unable to login to an Azure VM. Yesterday it was working fine.
An azure server that I logged into yesterday is now showing this error when ANYONE tries to login to it. Wondering if Patch Tuesday might be the culprit: "The target machine is either currently unreachable or username/password is not correct. Please…
asked 2024-11-13T23:15:10.03+00:00
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Seth Spearman
0
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answered 2024-11-14T06:29:01.2266667+00:00
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Sai Prasanna Sinde
3,415
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
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Azure Bastion not automatically deleting old sessions
We have a situation where our bastion just keeps adding to the number of active sessions and not deleting the sessions no longer used. This goes on until the limit for our size is hit and we need to kill it and start over. Currently it shows 40+ active…
asked 2024-10-30T09:31:52.2633333+00:00
Kent Nordström
0
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answered 2024-10-30T11:44:21.1933333+00:00
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Ganesh Patapati
3,285
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
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Azure bastion Host getting created automatically after deleting the existing one
Hi, I have created an Azure bastion host as part for azure Virtual network deployment. Now I don't need this bastion host anymore and while deleting the bastion host, new bastion host is getting created with the same name. Could you please help me to…
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Ritesh Giri
0
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edited the question 2024-10-22T13:12:34.3466667+00:00
Ryan Hill
29,566
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
Increase support/make configurable Azure Bastion https client SSH ciphers
Hello all, We have an encryption standard that holds chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com as the only cipher that can be used. I now need to seek a security exception to utilize aes256-ctr as a cipher for SSH in order to support the Azure Bastion https client…
asked 2024-10-19T20:40:05.7633333+00:00
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Matthew Brown
0
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answered 2024-10-21T11:11:07.3633333+00:00
Sai Prasanna Sinde
3,415
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
0 answers
Should I remove Azure Bastion and how?
Hello, I have an azure bastion I don't know why. I believe I do not use it. The azure bastion page in azure portal tells me I cannot delete it because it is a third party application. I am billed more than 100 euros each month for this service. I only…
asked 2024-10-03T06:38:49.2566667+00:00
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Christophe Aubert
0
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commented 2024-10-07T21:45:38.6933333+00:00
Sander van de Velde | MVP
34,386
Reputation points MVP
1 answer
How to set up Bastion to access VMs on different VNets?
Hello All, In this scenario shown below, Bastion instance is deployed in VNET-1. VNET-1 and VNET-2 have their own respective Site-to-Site (S2S) VPN connections to their on-premises environments. The objective is to use the Bastion instance in VNET-1…
asked 2024-10-02T18:20:10.9966667+00:00
Prashanta Shrestha
51
Reputation points
edited a comment 2024-10-03T07:08:15.7166667+00:00
KapilAnanth-MSFT
48,486
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
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Can I disable and enable Azure Bastion without deleting all related resources?
In order to reduce cost for the Virtual Machines, automatic shutdown will be triggered. As these VMs are connected to Azure Bastion, can we do the same for the Bastion Host (disable / enable) to save costs?
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Bastion Sessions stuck in "Loading..."
My Bastion is working fine. I RDP to my Windows VM and I wanted to check the Sessions information. I clicked on Sessions and the table is stuck at "Loading...". Eventually it time out and says unable to get the session information. I am using…
asked 2024-09-10T03:08:32.2333333+00:00
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Lai Kian Wah
0
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answered 2024-09-10T14:45:29.0033333+00:00
Ganesh Patapati
3,285
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer
Bastion Access to Azure VM
I have granted contributor access to a VM and she is getting "UnauthorizedDataError: data set DataCache:2:2" what could be the cause?
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User not able to connect to to Azure VM thro Bastion
Hi, Me and my counterpart are able to connect to Azure VMs thro Bastion Basic plan. We do this on daily basis with no issues However there is another third user who is required to connect to VMs once in a month. His account has the required RBAC…
asked 2024-07-29T07:18:31.77+00:00
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Rama Raghavendran
45
Reputation points
commented 2024-09-04T07:48:17.52+00:00
Rama Raghavendran
45
Reputation points
1 answer
bastion recording doesn't load up
bastion recording, the video of the bastion wont play for some reason, even though it has some storage to it so it should be recording
asked 2024-08-22T14:05:16.7566667+00:00
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Hussain Alotaibi
0
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answered 2024-08-23T18:05:34.8266667+00:00
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ChaitanyaNaykodi-MSFT
26,956
Reputation points Microsoft Employee