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Network security groups coverage on WindowsForum.com focuses on Azure AKS environments with Windows workloads and the need to distinguish infrastructure-level traffic controls from Kubernetes pod policies. The featured guidance addresses Azure Network Policy Manager’s scheduled retirement on September 30, 2026, advising teams to inventory how each rule is enforced and what it protects. Pod-label-based segmentation should remain with Kubernetes NetworkPolicies, while controls governing nodes, subnets, or other infrastructure may be moved to NSGs. This tag page is useful for administrators planning a careful policy review and migration without treating NSGs as a replacement for every existing control.
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    AKS Windows NPM Ends Sept. 30, 2026: Keep Pod Policies, Not NSGs

    AKS clusters with Windows workloads should not treat Azure Network Policy Manager’s September 30, 2026 retirement as an NSG replacement exercise. The safe pre-cutover task is to classify every traffic control by where it is enforced and what it protects: retain NetworkPolicies that provide...