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Published inJan 2016
PublisherPackt
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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Preparing the installation of Windows Azure Pack WebSites cloud


Before starting the installation and configuration of WAP websites cloud, there are multiple prerequisites that need to be fulfilled. Let's have a look at them.

Preparing Windows servers

All servers designated to host websites cloud components must be running Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2 operating system. It is recommended to patch the server with latest updates. It is advised to use a clean installation of the operating system.

Enable Windows Remote Management on all servers. Create inbound an access firewall rule for the following services for publisher and front end servers:

  • File and printer sharing (SMB-In)

  • Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI-In)

On all the server's user account control must be disabled for remote operations. This can be performed by adding the following registry key. Server must be restarted post adding the following registry key:

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\system /v...

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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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