Create an Application Security Group for Two Web Servers in Azure

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Create an Application Security Group for Two Web Servers in Azure

Your company has prepared two web servers and they intend to start serving traffic to them soon. Both servers have IIS installed, but they don't have port 80 (HTTP) or 443 (HTTPS) open for internet traffic. You have been tasked with creating an application security group, associating it with a network security group, and ensuring that the servers are accessible from the internet.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 24, 2025

Duration

30m

Challenge

Create a New Application Security Group
1. Create a new application security group named webserver-asg in the same region as the rest of our resources.
Challenge

Create a New Network Security Rule
1. Create a new inbound network security rule on our existing NSG to allow HTTP/HTTPS traffic on port 80 and 443 using our application security group.
Challenge

Test Connectivity to the Web Servers
1. Gather the public IP addresses of our IIS webserver VMs and paste them into the browser to validate the IIS splash page to validate the successfult completion of this lab. Make sure to use http and not https.

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