Creating SharePoint 2013 Azure

Create SharePoint 2013 in Azure

The instructions on how to do this, Build SP2013 in the Cloud, are not up-to-date. So I have updated them.
Word version of this here

Change  [XYZ] to your initials, in my case JDH

Create Azure Affinity Group

1. Selecting Settings
2. Click the +ADD button on the bottom navigation bar
3. Name: Enter a unique name for your new Affinity Group, such as [XYZ]NET01-AG
   – Region:
4. Select Networks located on the side navigation panel on the Windows Azure Management Portal page.
5. Click the +NEW button located on the bottom navigation bar and select Networks | Virtual Network | Register DNS Server.
6. Complete the DNS Server fields as follows:
   – NAME: [XYZ]SER2012
   – DNS Server IP Address: 10.0.0.4
7. Click the REGISTER DNS SERVER button.
8. Select Networks located on the side navigation panel on the Windows Azure Management Portal page.
9. Click the +NEW button located on the bottom navigation bar and select Networks | Virtual Network | Quick Create.
10. Complete the Virtual Network fields as follows:
    – NAME: [XYZ]NET001
    – Address Space: 10.—.—.—
    – Maximum VM Count: 4096 [CIDR: /20] – Affinity Group: [XYZ]NET01-AG
    – Connect to Existing DNS: Select XXXlabdns01 – the DNS Server registered in Exercise 1 above.
11. Click the CREATE A VIRTUAL NETWORK button.

Register DNS

1. Select Networks located on the side navigation panel on the Windows Azure Management Portal page.
2. Click the +NEW button located on the bottom navigation bar and select Networks | Virtual Network | Register DNS Server.
3. Complete the DNS Server fields as follows:
   – NAME: [XYZ]SER2012
   – DNS Server IP Address: 10.0.0.4
4. Click the REGISTER DNS SERVER button

Create Virtual Network

1. Select Networks located on the side navigation panel on the Windows Azure Management Portal page.
2. Click the +NEW button located on the bottom navigation bar and select Networks | Virtual Network | Quick Create.
3. Complete the Virtual Network fields as follows:
   – NAME: [XYZ]NET001
   – Address Space: 10.—.—.—
   – Maximum VM Count: 4096 [CIDR: /20] – Affinity Group: [XYZ]NET01-AG
   – Connect to Existing DNS: Select XXXlabdns01 – the DNS Server registered in Exercise 1 above.
4. Click the CREATE A VIRTUAL NETWORK button.

Create and Configure a Windows 2012 Server in a Windows Azure VM

Create Windows 2012 VM

1. Select Virtual Machines located on the side navigation panel on the Windows Azure Management Portal page.
2. Click the +NEW button located on the bottom navigation bar and select Compute | Virtual Machines | From Gallery.
3. In the Virtual Machine Operating System Selection list, select Windows Server 2012 Datacenter and click the button.
4. On the Virtual Machine Configuration page, complete the fields as follows:
   – Version Release Date: Select the latest version release date to build a new VM with the latest OS updates applied.
   – Virtual Machine Name: [XYZ]SER2012
   – New User Name: Choose a secure local Administrator user account to provision.
   – New Password and Confirm Password fields: Choose and confirm a new local Administrator password.
   – Size: Small (1 core, 1.75GB Memory)
   Click the button.
5. On the Virtual Machine Mode page, complete the fields as follows:
   – Cloud Service: Create new cloud service
   – Cloud Service DNS Name: [XYZ]SPCLOUD.cloudapp.net
   – Region/Affinity Group/Virtual Network: [XYZ]NET001
   – Virtual Network Subnets: Select Subnet-1 (10.0.0.0/23)
   – Storage Account: Use an Automatically generated storage account
   Click the button to continue.
6. On the Virtual Machine Mode page, complete the fields as follows:
   – Availability Set: Create new availability set
   – Availability Set Name: [XYZ]AVAILSET01
   – Enable PowerShell Remoting: Checked
7. Click the button to continue.

VERIFY IP Address

1. On the virtual machine Dashboard page for [XYZ]SER2012, make note of the Internal IP Address displayed on this page located on the right-side of the page. This IP address should be listed as 10.0.0.4. If not, then delete [XYZ]SER2012 and start over at step 1

Attach Data Disk

1. On the virtual machine Dashboard page for [XYZ]SER2012, click the Attach button located on the bottom navigation toolbar and select Attach Empty Disk. Complete the following fields on the Attach an empty disk to the virtual machine form:
   – Name: [XYZ]SER2012-data01
   – Size: 10 GB
   – Host Cache Preference: None
2. Click the button to create and attach the a new virtual hard disk
3. On the virtual machine Dashboard page for [XYZ]SER2012, click the Connect button located on the bottom navigation toolbar and click the Open button to launch a Remote Desktop Connection to the console of this virtual machine. Logon at the console of your virtual machine with the local Administrator credentials defined above.
4. On Server Manager Screen, select File and Storage Services, then Disks.
5. Right-Click on 10G Unknown partition and select New Volume….
6. Press Next
7. Press Next
8. Press OK
9. Verify Drive letter is F: and then press Next
10. Change Volume Label to DATA then press Next
11. Press Create button

Install Active Directory Domain Services

1. On Server Manager Dashboard Screen, on right side of screen, select Manage->Add role and Feature
2. Press Next
3. Select Role-based or Feature-based installation if it is not already selected and press Next
4. Make sure server [XYZ]SER2012 is selected and press Next
5. Check Active Directory Domain Service and then press Add Features on window that pops up.
6. Press Next
7. Press Next
8. Check Restart destination server automatically if needed
9. Press Yes to question
10. Press Install

Make Server Domain Controller

1. On Server Manager Dashboard Screen, press flag on right side (it should have orange trangle under it)
2. Select Promote this server to domain controller link.
3. Select Add a new forest radio button
   Domain : [XYZ].com
4. Select Add a new forest radio button then Press Next
5. Type in passwords for recovery then Press Next
6. Press Next
7. Change all the paths from C:\… to F:\… then Press Next
8. Press Next
9. Press Install

NOTE: You will be disconnected once install is done so VM can be rebooted. After disconnected, wait 2-3mins for reboot and reconnect.

Add SharePoint Service Accounts

1. On Server Manager Dashboard Screen, select Tools->Active Directory Users and Computers
2. Select your domain ([XYZ].com)
3. Right-click on Users and select New->User and add following:
   – [XYZ]\sp_farm – SharePoint Farm Data Access Account
   – [XYZ]\sp_serviceapps – SharePoint Farm Service Applications Account
   – [XYZ]\sp_user – SharePoint End User
   NOTE: Set password to never expire
4. Close Active Directory Users and Computers

Setup and Configure SQL Server 2012 in a Windows Azure VM

Create SQL 2012 Server

1. Select Virtual Machines located on the side navigation panel on the Windows Azure Management Portal page.
2. Click the +NEW button located on the bottom navigation bar and select Compute | Virtual Machines | From Gallery.
3. In the Virtual Machine Operating System Selection list, select SQL Server 2012 SP1 Enterprise on WIN2012 and click the button.
4. On the Virtual Machine Configuration page, complete the fields as follows:
   – Virtual Machine Name: [XYZ]SQL2012
   – New User Name: Choose a secure local Administrator user account to provision.
   – New Password and Confirm Password fields: Choose and confirm a new local Administrator password.
   – Size: Medium (2 cores, 3.5GB Memory)
   Click the button to continue.
5. On the Virtual Machine Mode page, complete the fields as follows:
   – Cloud Service: [XYZ]SPCLOUD
   – Region/Affinity Group/Virtual Network: Select [XYZ]NET01
   – Virtual Network Subnets: Select Subnet-1 (10.0.0.0/23)
   – Storage Account: Select Store Created above
6. Click the button to continue.
7. On the Next page, complete the fields as follows:
   – Availability Set: [XYZ]AVAILSET01
   – Enable PowerShell Remoting: Checked
8. Click the button to continue.

 

VERIFY IP Address

1. On the virtual machine Dashboard page for [XYZ]SQL2012, make note of the Internal IP Address displayed on this page located on the right-side of the page. This IP address should be listed as 10.0.0.5. If not, then delete [XYZ]SQL2012 and start over at step 1

Attach Data Disk

1. On the virtual machine Dashboard page for [XYZ]SQL2012, click the Attach button located on the bottom navigation toolbar and select Attach Empty Disk. Complete the following fields on the Attach an empty disk to the virtual machine form:
   – Name: [XYZ]SQL2012-data01
   – Size: 50 GB
   – Host Cache Preference: None
2. Click the button to create and attach the a new virtual hard disk
3. On the virtual machine Dashboard page for [XYZ]SQL2012, click the Connect button located on the bottom navigation toolbar and click the Open button to launch a Remote Desktop Connection to the console of this virtual machine. Logon at the console of your virtual machine with the local Administrator credentials defined above.
4. On Server Manager Screen, select File and Storage Services, then Disks.
5. Right-Click on 50G Unknown partition and select New Volume….
6. Press Next
7. Press Next
8. Press OK
9. Verify Drive letter is F: and then press Next
10. Change Volume Label to DATA then press Next
11. Press Create button
12. Press Close button once finished

Change SQL Data Paths

1. On F:\ Drive
   -Create folders
   F:\MSSQL
   F:\MSSQL\DATA
   F:\MSSQL\LOGS
   F:\MSSQL\BACKUP
2. Open SQL Server Management Studio from Start | All Programs | Microsoft SQL Server 2012 | SQL Server Management Studio
3. Connect to the SQL Server 2012 default instance using your Windows Account
4. Right-click on your SQL Server instance and select Properties
5. Select Database Settings from the left side pane
6. Locate the Database default locations section and update the default values for each path to point to the new folder paths defined above
7. Close SQL Server Management Studio.

Add Inbound Firewall
NOTE: In order to allow SharePoint to connect to the SQL Server, you will need to add
an Inbound Rule for the SQL Server requests in the Windows Firewall.

1. Open Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
2. On Server Manager Dashboard Screen, select Tools->Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
3. In the Rule Type page, select Port and click Next
4. In Protocols and Ports page, leave TCP selected, select Specific local ports, and set its value to 1433. Click Next to continue.
5. In the Action page, make sure that Allow the connection is selected and click Next.
6. In the Profile page, leave the default values and click Next.
7. In the Name page, set the Inbound Rule’s Name to SQLServerRule and click Finish
8. Close Windows Firewall with Advanced Security window.

Join to domain

1. On Server Manager Dashboard Screen, select Local Server on the left
2. Click on Workgroup name
3. Click Change… button
4. Select Domain radio button
5. Enter your domain, i.e. [XYZ].com
6. Press Ok
7. Enter in Username/Password for admin
8. Press OK
9. Press OK
10. Answer Yes to reboot

Give sp_farm user SQL sysadmin role

1. Open SQL Server Management Studio from Start | All Programs | Microsoft SQL Server 2012 | SQL Server Management Studio
2. Connect to the SQL Server 2012 default instance using your Windows Account
   NOTE: You may have to login in as .\ your windows account, since domain was added after install
3. Add [XYZ]\sp_farm as sysadmin

Setup and Configure SQL SharePoint 2012 in a Windows Azure VM

Create SharePoint 2012 Server

1. Select Virtual Machines located on the side navigation panel on the Windows Azure Management Portal page.
2. Click the +NEW button located on the bottom navigation bar and select Compute | Virtual Machines | From Gallery.
3. In the Virtual Machine Operating System Selection list, select SharePoint Server 2013 Trail and click the button.
4. On the Virtual Machine Configuration page, complete the fields as follows:
   – Version Release Date: Select the latest version release date to build a new VM with the latest OS updates applied.
   – Virtual Machine Name: [XYZ]SP2013
   – New User Name: Choose a secure local Administrator user account to provision.
   – New Password and Confirm Password fields: Choose and confirm a new local Administrator password.
   – Size: Small (4 core, 7GB Memory)
   Click the button.

VERIFY IP Address

1. On the virtual machine Dashboard page for [XYZ]SP2013, make note of the Internal IP Address displayed on this page located on the right-side of the page. This IP address should be listed as 10.0.0.6. If not, then delete [XYZ]SP2013and start over at step 1

 

Join to domain

1. On the virtual machine Dashboard page for [XYZ]SQL2012, click the Connect button located on the bottom navigation toolbar and click the Open button to launch a Remote Desktop Connection to the console of this virtual machine. Logon at the console of your virtual machine with the local Administrator credentials defined above
2. On Server Manager Dashboard Screen, select Local Server on the left
3. Click on Workgroup name
4. Click Change… button
5. Select Domain radio button
6. Enter your domain, i.e. [XYZ].com
7. Press Ok
8. Enter in Username/Password for admin
9. Press OK
10. Press OK
11. Answer Yes to reboot
12. On the Virtual Machine Mode page, complete the fields as follows:
    – Cloud Service: [XYZ]SPCLOUD
    – Region/Affinity Group/Virtual Network: [XYZ]NET001
    – Virtual Network Subnets: Select Subnet-1 (10.0.0.0/23)
    – Storage Account: Use one created already
    Click the button to continue.
13. On the Virtual Machine Mode page, complete the fields as follows:
    – Availability Set: Create new availability set
    – Availability Set Name: [XYZ]AVAILSET01
    – Enable PowerShell Remoting: Checked
14. Click the button to continue.

VERIFY IP Address

1. On the virtual machine Dashboard page for [XYZ]SP2013, make note of the Internal IP Address displayed on this page located on the right-side of the page. This IP address should be listed as 10.0.0.6. If not, then delete [XYZ]SP2013 and start over at step 1

Create SharePoint 2013 Farm

1. On the Desktop, double-click on the SharePoint 2013 Products Configuration Wizard shortcut to launch the configuration wizard.
2. Click the Next button to continue.
3. If prompted to start or reset services, click the Yes button.
4. In the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard, when prompted on the Connect to server farm dialog,
   Select the option to Create a new server farm.
5. On the Specify Configuration Database Settings, specify the following values for each field:
   – Database Server: [XYZ]SQL2012
   – Username: [XYZ]\sp_farm
   – Password: Type the password specified when the sp_farm domain user account was created earlier
   NOTE: If you cannot connect to database server, then log into [XYZ]SQL2012 and turn off Firewall
6. Click the Next button
7. Enter Paraphrase for farm
8. Click the Next button
9. Change Port to 55555
10. Click the Next button
11. Click the Next button
12. Click the Finish button when prompted to complete the wizard
13. Take default on IE Network question and press OK

Create Top level Site on SharePoint 2013 Farm

1. Press Start Wizard button on How do you want to configure your SharePoint farm? screen
2. In Service Account select Create new managed account
   – User: [XYZ]\sp_serviceapps
3. Press Next
4. On the Create a Site Collection page, create a new top-level Intranet site collection using the following field values:
   – Title and Description: Publishing
   – URL: Select the root URL path – http://[XYZ]SP2013/
   – Select experience version: 2013
   – Select a template: Publishing | Publishing Portal
5. Click the OK button to provision a new top-level Intranet site collection.

Verify Top level Site on SharePoint 2013 Farm

1. After the new top-level Intranet site collection is provisioned, test navigating to the URL for this site collection from within the Remote Desktop session to the server.
   – http://[XYZ]SP2013/

Change Alternative Access mapping to use cloud url

1. On the SharePoint 2013 Central Administration site, configure a Public URL alternate access mapping for accessing the new top-level Intranet site collection from the Internet.
2. On the Central Administration site home page, click the Configure alternate access mappings link.
3. On the Alternate Access Mappings page, click the Edit Public URLs link.
4. On the Edit Public Zone URLs page, select and specify the following values:
   – Alternate Access Mapping Collection: SharePoint – 80
   – Internet: http://[XYZ]SPCLOUD.cloudapp.net
5. Click the Save button
6. On the SharePoint 2013 Central Administration site, configure a Public URL alternate access mapping for Central Admin.
7. On the Central Administration site home page, click the Configure alternate access mappings link.
8. On the Alternate Access Mappings page, click the Edit Public URLs link.
9. On the Edit Public Zone URLs page, select and specify the following values:
   – Alternate Access Mapping Collection: Central Administration – 55555
   – Internet: http://[XYZ]SPCLOUD.cloudapp.net:55555
10. Click the Save button

Configure Cloud Endpoints to point to SharePoint VM

1. Sign in at the Windows Azure Management Portal with the logon credentials.
2. Select Virtual Machines located on the side navigation panel on the Windows Azure Management Portal page.
3. On the Virtual Machines page, click on the name of the SharePoint virtual machine – [XYZ]SP2013.
4. On the [XYZ]SP2013 virtual machine details page, click on Endpoints in the top navigation area of the page.
5. Click the +Add Endpoint button in the bottom navigation bar of the page.
6. On the Add an endpoint to a virtual machine form, select the Add Endpoint option and
7. Click the button to continue.
8. On the Specify the details of the endpoint form, specify the following field values:
   – Name: WebHTTP
   – Protocol: TCP
   – Public Port: 80
   – Private Port: 80
9. Click the button.
10. After the endpoint configuration has been successfully applied, test browsing to the following public URL to confirm that you are able to access the Intranet site collection that is configured on SharePoint:
    – URL: http://[XYZ]SPCLOUD.cloudapp.net
11. Now add endpoint for central admin, On the Specify the details of the endpoint form, specify the following field values:
    – Name: CentralAdmin
    – Protocol: TCP
    – Public Port: 55555
    – Private Port: 55555
12. Click the button
13. After the endpoint configuration has been successfully applied, test browsing to the following public URL to confirm that you are able to access the Intranet site collection that is configured on SharePoint:
    – URL: http://[XYZ]SPCLOUD.cloudapp.net:55555