Azure Pack: change Web Sites Default Domain DNS Suffix

To change the Default URL (DNS Suffix) for your Web Sites in Windows Azure Pack, follow these simple steps;

On the computer that is hosting the Web Sites Controller, run the following Windows PowerShell command:

Update (2014-07-14): It looks like the command above does not support -DnsSuffix anymore, but one of my readers has posted an alternative solution in the comments;

As an alternative you can use the following approach:

Check the change by using

And you’ll after that also have to do this:
On your SQL Server, open Management Studio.
In the Hosting Database admin.WebSystems table, change the
PublishingDns, FtpDns, and Subdomain to your desired URLs.

Restart your AzurePack servers to make the changes apply everywhere.

Azure Pack: Web Sites MBCA 2.0 Model preventing Feature Pack for Windows Azure Pack Web Sites v2 (KB2927682) from installing.

Windows Update is failing to install “Feature Pack for Windows Azure Pack Web Sites v2 (KB2927682)” on one of my Azure Pack servers. And just give the error message: 0x80070643

The event log shows a slightly better error message; “Product: Web Sites Local Feed — A newer version of Web Sites Local Feed was found on this machine.”

After further investigation, the MSI Logfile reveals some great information and clues;

It lists a program with GUID {BE2AD1F0-C5FF-4F62-95BD-44C829150573} that prevents the installation from completing.
And that GUID turned out, after a quick Registry search, to be “Web Sites MBCA 2.0 Model”.

And after uninstalling “Web Sites MBCA 2.0 Model” from Add/Remove Programs, my Windows Update installation went through at once!

Success!