Setting up a SharePoint Server 2016 farm in Azure?

[Joe Davies]

If you are looking at deploying a SharePoint Server 2016 farm on virtual machines in Azure, see the set of articles at http://aka.ms/sp2016inazure.

These articles describe how to create two different dev/test environments, walk you through a planning process to determine the set of Azure infrastructure elements and their settings, and take you step-by-step through the deployment of a high-availability farm using SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks!

[#2]

Hi @Joe Davies

I'm having issues with this code. I had to change StandardLRS to Standard_LRS to stop it crashing out and then on the final step it says "New-AzureRMVM : Object reference not set to an instance of an object." and doesn't create the VM. Please can you advise?

$rgName="<resource group name>"
# Get the location
$locName=(Get-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name $rgName).Location
# Create an availability set for domain controller virtual machines
New-AzureRMAvailabilitySet -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Name dcAvailabilitySet -Location $locName -Sku Aligned -PlatformUpdateDomainCount 5 -PlatformFaultDomainCount 2
# Create the adVM virtual machine
$vmName="adVM"
$vmSize="Standard_D1_v2"
$vnet=Get-AzureRMVirtualNetwork -Name SP2016Vnet -ResourceGroupName $rgName
$pip = New-AzureRMPublicIpAddress -Name ($vmName + "-PIP") -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Location $locName -AllocationMethod Dynamic
$nic = New-AzureRMNetworkInterface -Name ($vmName + "-NIC") -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Location $locName -SubnetId $vnet.Subnets[0].Id -PublicIpAddressId $pip.Id -PrivateIpAddress 10.0.0.4
$avSet=Get-AzureRMAvailabilitySet -Name dcAvailabilitySet -ResourceGroupName $rgName
$vm=New-AzureRMVMConfig -VMName $vmName -VMSize $vmSize -AvailabilitySetId $avSet.Id
$vm=Set-AzureRmVMOSDisk -VM $vm -Name ($vmName +"-OS") -DiskSizeInGB 128 -CreateOption FromImage -StorageAccountType "StandardLRS"
$diskConfig=New-AzureRmDiskConfig -AccountType "StandardLRS" -Location $locName -CreateOption Empty -DiskSizeGB 20
$dataDisk1=New-AzureRmDisk -DiskName ($vmName + "-DataDisk1") -Disk $diskConfig -ResourceGroupName $rgName
$vm=Add-AzureRmVMDataDisk -VM $vm -Name ($vmName + "-DataDisk1") -CreateOption Attach -ManagedDiskId $dataDisk1.Id -Lun 1
$cred=Get-Credential -Message "Type the name and password of the local administrator account for adVM."
$vm=Set-AzureRMVMOperatingSystem -VM $vm -Windows -ComputerName adVM -Credential $cred -ProvisionVMAgent -EnableAutoUpdate
$vm=Set-AzureRMVMSourceImage -VM $vm -PublisherName MicrosoftWindowsServer -Offer WindowsServer -Skus 2012-R2-Datacenter -Version "latest"
$vm=Add-AzureRMVMNetworkInterface -VM $vm -Id $nic.Id
New-AzureRMVM -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Location $locName -VM $vm