Installing SharePoint 2016 on Azure
Looking at my YouTube content it has been brought to my attention on Twitter that I don’t have a video that people expect. How to install SharePoint Server 2016 on Azure IaaS. Whoops. I realized that I have all of the pieces I just haven’t put the story together. So before I bust out the camera, microphone, and makeup (just kidding) I thought I would put together a blog post that gives you the plan in the short term.
In Azure, you will need to create a minimum of three VMs and you will need to put those VMs in the same Resource Group to make your life easier.
- Create a Domain Controller VM
- Create a new resource group
- Give it a static IP
- Update Azure Networking with static IP for DNS
- Will be a domain controller for your new forest and DNS server
- Step-by-Step video Create a new Active Directory Forest in Azure
- Create a Windows VM for SQL
- Put it in same Resource Group (working with Resource Groups in Azure)
- Join to Azure domain (Add a server to the domain in Azure)
- Install SQL and configure it for SharePoint.
- Step-by-Step video for SQL 2014 or SQL 2016
- Create a Windows VM for SharePoint
- Put in same Resource Group
- Join to Azure domain
- Step-by-Step video Install SharePoint Server 2016
- Step-by-Step video Install Cumulative Update for SharePoint Sever 2016 This step is optional. I would consider starting with September 2016 CU
- Step-by-Step video Configure SharePoint Server 2016 the right way
There you go. If you want a guide through the whole process, there it is. The good news is I see how that is annoying and that the SharePoint videos are shown with Hyper-V. So next week I will sit down and reshoot all of this 100% from Azure.
If you do watch any of these and have ideas or suggestions on what I should do differently or better, I am all ears.
Shane – @ShanesCows