Recently, I got to work with a client on something interesting. We implemented transactional replication to send data to an Azure virtual machine. This was being done to perform some testing for a project.
Given that the two machines were NOT within the same Active Directory domain, we wanted to make sure our client’s data was protected, so we utilized a Point-to-Site VPN to facilitate this. With the client using a VPN connection, this helps to ensure that any data transmitted to the virtual machine is encrypted and secured. Note, the process on how to configure and implement the VPN connection is for another blog post.