SharePoint 2013 in Azure IaaS–Map public url to internal DNS

One of my SharePoint environments was recently deployed in Microsoft Azure IaaS. I have following servers in that environment

• Active Directory
• SQL Server
• Analysis Services Server
• SharePoint Server

I have deployed the farm accordingly and created host named site collection using public URL “portal.contoso.com”.

I used following command to create the host based site collection

New-SPSite 'https://portal.contoso.com' -HostHeaderWebApplication 'https://portal.contoso.com' -Name 'Portal' -Description 'Portal' -OwnerAlias 'SP\SP_Admin' -language 1033 -Template 'BLANKINTERNETCONTAINER#0'

Then I mapped the public IP of the SharePoint server with my external DNS. Thereafter my SharePoint site is accessible from outside as below

• https://portal.contoso.com

But the public URL was not accessible within my server farm (e.g SharePoint server, or Analysis Services Server), And I need to have a more concrete solution than host files.

Following are the steps I used

1. Log in to domain controller and navigate to DNS Manager. Right click on Forward Lookup Zones and create new

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Create new A record to SharePoint server

3. Test the connectivity

First clear the DNS cache

• ipconfig /flushdns

That’s all we have to do. In the same way I had to map public URLs of my analysis services as well.