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An Azure subscription needs to be created. Visit https://portal.azure.com/ and sign in with an existing Microsoft account, or create one.
Search for Subscriptions by starting to type subscriptions in the search bar - select Subscriptions when presented.
Press the Add button to add a subscription
Select the Pay-As-You-Go option
In the Agreement dialog, agree to the terms and enter the payment details.
Select the technical support option you want.
Once created, you will be directed to the
Azure Active Directory
The Azure Active Directory is an identity service. This is where you create users. When you create an Azure subscription, the directory is created for you. You may already have your users in this directory if you already have an Office 365 subscription - as this uses the same directory for managing users.
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Before we can create a virtual machine, an Azure Active Directory Domain Service needs to be created. The Windows Server machine we later will be provisioning requires a Domain to connect to before Remote Desktop Services can be deployed, and the Azure Active Directory Domain Service is what we use to establish a Domain. On-prem Domains can be used instead via VPN gateway, but that is beyond the scope of this document.
You will need to add and verify ownership of a custom domain. To verify ownership you will need to create a TXT record in your public DNS. Follow the guidance in the portal when adding the custom domain.
Azure Virtual Machine
An Azure virtual machine is used to deliver the Jiwa application via Remote Desktop Services. This is a Windows machine running Windows Server 2019 or later.
About Machine Sizes
Typically, we use B4ms sized VM’s for up to 30 users. For more users either create additional VM’s and load balance, or just scale up to B8ms. If you only have 1 to 12 users, or it's a test machine, you might get away with a B2ms
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Jiwa typically runs at 512 MB per user; allow 2GB for the operating system.
Create the VM
In the Azure portal, locate Virtual Machines and select Create
In the Basics tab, choose the Create new option the the Resource group and provide a name.
Also choose a virtual machine name and select an appropriate region. Choose a region closest to where the majority of users are geographically located.
The Image to select is Windows Server 2019 Datacenter edition.
When first provisioning we need port 3389 open on the firewall, so leave that selected - this will be removed for security reasons once we configure Remote Desktop to use HTTPS instead.
On the Networking tab, we and to select the Virtual network associated with the Azure Active Directory Domain Services.
The remaining options are optional - it is recommended to enable backups for the VM - but note that no data is stored on the VM, so if the VM becomes unusable all that is needed is to provision a new VM from scratch.
All data is stored with the SQL Azure database.
Continue to the Review + Create step and choose Create.
SQL Azure
For Azure SQL we use Standard tier – 50 DTU’s is usually the minimum, but we have a couple of customers using less.
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