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Published inJan 2016
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ISBN-139781785882470
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Amit Malik
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Amit Malik

Amit Malik is an IT enthusiast and technology evangelist from Delhi, India. He specializes in Virtualization, Cloud, and emerging technology space. He has an intense knowledge in building cloud solutions with Microsoft Windows Azure Pack. Amit holds various industry admired certifications from all major OEM's in Virtualization and Cloud space including MCSE for Private Cloud. Amit has designed and built numerous virtualization and private cloud solutions comprising the product lines of Microsoft, VMware, and Citrix. Apart from these, he can be found working on emerging technologies including VDI, hyper convergence, Software Defined Infrastructure solutions including networking and storage, Containers, Big Data, IoT, and other similar technologies. Amit is interested in building products and doing product management in near future for related technology space. You can always reach Amit on LinkedIn (https://in.linkedin.com/in/amitmalik99)or email (contact2amitmalik@gmail.com)
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Customizing WAP portal's accessibility and certificates


By default, WAP websites use server hostnames as website URL, default port number, and self-signed certificates. In this topic, we will change the website's name, that is, URL, default port (such as 30081 to 443 for tenant portal) and SSL certificate with internal or public certificates as required. It is recommended to customize these portals' configuration for better security and user experience.

Assume a user experience of a tenant portal, also known as a customer portal, with complex enough URL and a custom port to add with disturbing security warnings of untrusted SSL certificates. Windows Azure Pack provides flexibilities to change URLs and ports along with trusted SSL certificates for WAP websites for improved security and smooth end user experience.

Before getting things into action, let's understand which websites come into the picture for the user logins (Admin or Tenant) WAP portal use claim-based authentication mechanism during...

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Published in: Jan 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785882470

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Amit Malik

Amit Malik is an IT enthusiast and technology evangelist from Delhi, India. He specializes in Virtualization, Cloud, and emerging technology space. He has an intense knowledge in building cloud solutions with Microsoft Windows Azure Pack. Amit holds various industry admired certifications from all major OEM's in Virtualization and Cloud space including MCSE for Private Cloud. Amit has designed and built numerous virtualization and private cloud solutions comprising the product lines of Microsoft, VMware, and Citrix. Apart from these, he can be found working on emerging technologies including VDI, hyper convergence, Software Defined Infrastructure solutions including networking and storage, Containers, Big Data, IoT, and other similar technologies. Amit is interested in building products and doing product management in near future for related technology space. You can always reach Amit on LinkedIn (https://in.linkedin.com/in/amitmalik99)or email (contact2amitmalik@gmail.com)
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