Migrating an Amazon AWS EC2 Instance to Microsoft Azure
….and failed.
Group Policy failed because PowerShell on CONFIGSVR was not configured to allow execution of the script so I had to run PowerShell as admin and run set-executionpolicy unrestricted:
After doing so, I re-ran the installer and it passed:
After clicking Next, I had to provide a MySQL password:
I supplied a password and clicked Next. After clicking Next, I was asked if I wanted to protect VMWare virtual machines. In this lab, I was not – so I clicked “No” and then Next:
After clicking Next, I accepted the default install directory:
On the next screen, I was asked which NIC I wanted to use for replication traffic and which port I wanted to use. My server only has one NIC so I accepted the defaults:
I was then shown the Summary Screen after clicking Next:
After clicking Install, the setup began:
When installation was complete, I clicked Finish, only to be greeted by a message to restart my machine:
After clicking OK to clear the reboot notice, I was asked to save the Configuration Server Passphrase so I clicked Yes and even saved it to a text file. I DID NOT REBOOT AT THIS POINT! YOU SHOULDN’T EITHER.
After clicking Finish, I was prompted to configure my admin accounts and to register my CONFIGSVR server with the vault:
To perform these steps, I simply clicked Add Account and provided the local administrator account and password for the machine I planned to migrate (PRODSVR):
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