Installation

• Sign in to a host that can access the privileged endpoint VM.

  • On Azure Stack Development Kit installations, sign in to the physical host.

  • On multi-node systems, the host must be a system that can access the privileged endpoint.

• Extract the contents of Billing resource provider to a temporary directory using any extractor tool.

• Place the generated .pfx file in the DependencyFilesLocalPath as follows:

  • Only a single certificate file exists in the DependencyFilesLocalPath

  • The file name must not contain any special characters.

  • The certificate must be placed in the DependencyFilesLocalPath before retrying the deployment

• Edit the InstallBilling.ps1 script with the account information and passwords as needed by the script.

• Open a new elevated (administrative) PowerShell console and change to the directory where the files have been extracted. Use a new window to avoid problems that might arise from incorrect PowerShell modules that are already loaded on the system.

• By default, the installation scripts supports deployment in connected AzS environment. To deploy billing solution in disconnected AzS Environment, make the following changes,

  • Changes in InstallBilling.ps1

    • Change the $imageSku to "Standard"

  • Changes in DeployBillingProvider.ps1

    • Change the $publisherName to "MicrosoftSQLServer" and $offer to "SQL2016SP1-WS2016" in the else part

else 
{
    if (-not $SqlServerName)
    {
        Write-Error "Kindly provide the SQL server name and rerun the deployment."
            throw   
    }
    $publisherName = "MicrosoftWindowsServer"
    $offer = "WindowsServer"
}

• Run InstallBilling.ps1 script

NOTE: The system where the script is being run must be a Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016 system with the latest version of the .NET runtime installed.

Verifying the Deployment in Azure Stack Portals

• In Admin Portal, click on Resource Groups. Then select the system.<location>.cloudassert.billing resource group and verify if the deployment succeeded.

• In Tenant Portal, click on Resource Groups. Then select the system.<location>.cloudassert.billing.rp resource group and verify if the deployment succeeded.