Administrator Guide

Service accounts.......................................................................................................................................................115
Groups........................................................................................................................................................................ 117
Resetting service account passwords..........................................................................................................................118
How service accounts are managed.......................................................................................................................118
Important information about the password reset script.......................................................................................118
How to run the MCPasswordReset script.............................................................................................................119
Viewing MCPasswordReset script logs.................................................................................................................120
Troubleshooting the MCPasswordReset script..................................................................................................... 121
Rotating Windows Azure Pack encryption keys......................................................................................................... 124
Managing antivirus and antimalware............................................................................................................................124
Overview of default antimalware conguration....................................................................................................124
How to run unscheduled antimalware scans.........................................................................................................125
How to view scan results and respond to malware incidents............................................................................. 125
How to update antimalware denitions manually................................................................................................. 126
How to verify that updates are working................................................................................................................126
Managing certicates.................................................................................................................................................... 126
Viewing the certicates........................................................................................................................................... 127
Replacing self-signed certicates with CA-signed certicates...........................................................................127
Updating certicates about to expire.....................................................................................................................133
Appendix A: Expanding the stamp................................................................................................................. 134
Compute expansion workow...................................................................................................................................... 134
Physical installation...................................................................................................................................................135
Deploying compute expansion nodes.....................................................................................................................135
Adding another server to backup infrastructure........................................................................................................ 135
Appendix B: Performing a factory reset......................................................................................................... 137
Access and account requirements................................................................................................................................137
Resetting the backup servers.......................................................................................................................................138
Resetting the standalone backup host.................................................................................................................. 144
Resetting the storage cluster (<Prex>-SCL)............................................................................................................147
Resetting the compute cluster (<Prex>CCL).......................................................................................................... 150
Clean up Active Directory and DNS records...............................................................................................................153
Clean up artifacts created by Azure Site Recovery................................................................................................... 153
Delete the VMM server...........................................................................................................................................154
Delete the IaaS VMs from failover if needed........................................................................................................ 154
Optionally delete the vault and the associated storage account........................................................................154
Appendix C: Retrieving cluster names, host names, and IP addresses........................................................... 155
Get cluster names.......................................................................................................................................................... 155
Get the cluster IP addresses.........................................................................................................................................155
Example 1: Compute clusters..................................................................................................................................155
Example 2: File server clusters............................................................................................................................... 155
Example 3: SQL Server clusters.............................................................................................................................156
Get host names and IP addresses for cluster hosts.................................................................................................. 156
Compute cluster host.............................................................................................................................................. 156
File server cluster..................................................................................................................................................... 156
SQL Server cluster...................................................................................................................................................156
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