Broken links - Azure Building Block Tutorial -5-install-Active-Directory-using-a-VM-extension

[MidiCoder]

Broken links - Azure Building Block Tutorial -5-install-Active-Directory-using-a-VM-extension

[MidiCoder]

@Petertaylor9999 - Thanks I have cloned both of the GitHub repositories and I am working on implementing the reference architectures in my lab. It would be nice to setup a forum if you haven't got one already so that we can build a community where we can discuss all things AZBB and maybe a gallery of user solutions like the ARM ones. Tell the team to keep up the good work.

[Petertaylor9999]

Hi there @MidiCoder - sorry, these are really out of date and are based on the last version of our identity reference architectures.

Are you trying to learn how to compose Azure building blocks templates, or are you trying to learn how to set up Active Directory in Azure?

[MidiCoder]

Hi, there @Petertaylor9999 I am trying to learn how to use Azure Building Blocks and trying to follow the examples as set out in the tutorials. But I cant get past tutorial 5 because the link to the .ps1 files don't work.

[Petertaylor9999]

Great! I will update the documents with the new JSON shortly.

[MidiCoder]

Hi @Petertaylor9999 thanks for that.

Is there a community for this project?

Thanks

[Petertaylor9999]

@MidiCoder - there is currently a small community, but we are trying to raise awareness of this project and grow the community through conferences and talks. We are a small team at Microsoft and we are committed to supporting this project using Github. We have plans to make more investments in the Azure Building Blocks in the near future to add new features.

If you haven't already, I highly recommend you take a look at Azure Reference Architecutres, which is another project from our team. Almost all of these reference architectures use building block templates for deployment, so you can take a look at them to see how we've used them.

[ameerhamza]

The updated links are available at this link. Just replace the links from ad-vm1, ad-vm2 in json in tutorial with links from following and it works like a charm

https://github.com/mspnp/reference-architectures/blob/master/virtual-machines/n-tier-windows/n-tier-windows.json

[MidiCoder]

@ameerhamza I will try it as soon as I can and get back to you.

Thanks

[MidiCoder]

@ameerhamza

Hi, I updated the links for ad-vm1 and ad-vm2 but the deployment is failing when it gets to the install-adds extension on ad-vm2.

I have logged into ad-vm2 and I can see that the VM has joined the contoso domain but it has not installed ADDS.

The VM is reporting a failure when processing extension 'install-adds'.

But the script works fine if I run it on a local machine.

This is the error that I am getting :

"code": "Conflict",
"message": "{\r\n "status": "Failed",\r\n "error": {\r\n "code": "ResourceDeploymentFailure",\r\n "message": "The resource operation completed with terminal provisioning state 'Failed'.",\r\n "details": [\r\n {\r\n
"code": "VMExtensionProvisioningError",\r\n "message": "VM has reported a failure when processing extension 'install-adds'. Error message: \"Finished executing command\"."\r\n }\r\n ]\r\n }\r\n}"

[ameerhamza]

Hi,

I don't have a subscription and it's very expensive to experiment further ;)
I got the same problem as well. I think it went away with further tweaks as far as I recall. I am new to all this and don't recall what the tweaks were.

My advice would be to see the reference architecture template from where you copied the link. I think its a working example

Regards

[woodp]

Both n-tier windows reference architecture and tutorial 5 have been updated.