Windows Azure Pack: Web Sites Pre-installation Checklist

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09/07/2016

Applies To: Windows Azure Pack

For convenience, here is a summary of pre-installation tasks for Windows Azure Pack: Web Sites. For detailed information, consult the indicated section of this guide.

	Task	References
1	Understand Web Sites Roles and SQL Roles	Windows Azure Pack: Web Sites Overview
2	Assess capacity requirements for the Web Sites and Web Sites Runtime SQL Server roles in your environment	Capacity Planning for Windows Azure Pack: Web Sites
3	Decide on domain vs. non-domain	Domain vs. non-Domain considerations
4	Provision Web Sites roles servers	Create Servers for the Web Sites Roles
5	Prepare a SQL Server for the Web Sites Runtime	Prepare a SQL Server to hold the Windows Azure Pack Web Sites Runtime Database
6	Provision SQL Server and MySQL Tenant Databases	Provision SQL Server and MySQL Application Databases for Tenant Use
7	Configure firewalls on Web Sites Roles	Web Sites Roles Firewall Configuration
8	(If applicable) configure Web Sites to use Proxy Servers	Configure Windows Azure Pack: Web Sites to use Proxy Servers
9	(If applicable) configure Microsoft Updates to use Proxy	Allow Microsoft Updates access to Windows Azure Pack: Web Sites behind the proxy
10	Modify UAC for Remote Access	Modify User Account Control for Remote Access
11	Configure DNS mappings	Configure DNS mappings for the Web Sites Cloud
12	Decide which File Server type to use (Standalone or pre-configured)	Pre-configure a Windows File Server Cluster or NAS device for Windows Azure Pack: Web Sites
13	(If applicable) pre-configure a Windows File Server Cluster or NAS (includes 5 major sub-steps)	Pre-configure a Windows File Server Cluster or NAS device for Windows Azure Pack: Web Sites

See Also

Deploy Windows Azure Pack: Web Sites