Before starting to plan Azure Stack, an important requirement needs to be defined, and you, as the administrator or the person responsible for the project, should ask yourself the following question:

What is my cloud offering with Azure Stack? If we set up Azure Stack, it'll be there, but no services will be available if you do not define them beforehand. To be more clear, it is even important to know the offerings before starting the planning phase. A lot of the aspects of an offering change the deployment itself a little; for example, if you do not plan to offer Database as a Service (DBaaS), why should you plan for the SQL resource provider (SQL bridging resource provider)? Therefore, the most important thing is to define your offerings before starting with the deployment. A lot of people fear writing hundreds of pages before planning the first steps which may take days. From my experiences, this is completely different: the goal is to have one document per offering, with...