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Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

By : Amit Malik
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Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

By: Amit Malik

Overview of this book

Windows Azure Pack is an on-premises cloud solution by Microsoft, which can be leveraged by Organizations and Services providers for building an enterprise class cloud solution. WAP provides consistent experience to Microsoft Azure, along with capabilities such as multi-tenancy, high density, self-service, automated. WAP can be leveraged to provide both IaaS & PaaS Offerings to internal and external customers. In this book, we will learn about planning and deployment of Cloud Fabric for Windows Azure Pack, Azure Pack components, VM Clouds and IaaS offerings, PaaS Offering including WebSites & Service Bus, DBaaS offerings, Automation with SMA, and extending capabilities with third party products integration and tenant experience for all services.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating and managing tenants' user accounts


While signing up on Windows Azure Pack tenant portal, tenants must provide an email address and password. This creates an account for tenants in Windows Azure Pack directory (ASP .Net or ADFS as applicable).

Tenant user accounts can be created in Windows Azure Pack in two ways:

  • They can be created by a tenant's self-sign up operation

  • They can be created by a cloud administrator

Creating user accounts for tenants

The following steps are to be carried out for creating user accounts for tenants:

  1. Log into the WAP management portal for administrators.

  2. Browse the user accounts workspace.

  3. Click on CREATE A NEW USER.

  4. Provide user details including email address, password, and a plan to subscribe. Note that a plan made public will only be available here.

  5. Tenants can use this account now for logging into the tenant portal and using services under the selected plan.

An administrator can perform additional operations on user accounts such as:

  • Suspend account

  • Reset password...