I would check your quorum setup, it sounds like there weren't enough voting members to adequately vote to make the second site the primary.  I typically recommend a file share...

One thing that happened to a client of mine is that their "Power Mode" in the host BIOS (was a Hyper-V VM) was set to balanced.  If the server has...

Looks like it is running as the built-in service account.  Did you give that account permissions in the instance to perform backups?  It would also need permissions to whatever file...

I also like to use the First Responder Kit from Brent Ozar.  It's light weight and offers a wealth of information.
https://www.brentozar.com/first-aid/

The number of nodes doesn't matter for the listener, it sits on top of the Availability Group.

Thanks Jeff, I’ll give it a shot

By the way, for anyone looking to do this, you just need to add the path to the solution to your shortcut Target path on the icon.  Be sure to...

Exactly right, I've run into this before when requesting a new server from the infrastructure group...they always forget to add .net 3.5 and I always forget to check in advance.

All good info. Definitely use a file share witness, make sure that you have an AD service account running the SQL services before you get started and that it has...

As Sue suggested I believe you would need to install the component on server B then configure a new role for the service. I believe you can then add it...

Thanks for responding.  Yeah, those are helpful to a point.  I did some searching and found a cloud product called CloudMonix in the Marketplace that integrates into your Azure Portal...