Had some time in the last 2 days,thought of playing with Sharepoint + Azure. Signed up for it, created a new account (90 day trial), it's a lot of fun setting up the VM environments.
Here are the steps I did to build a quick SP environment on the cloud with local dev environment.
# signed-up for your FREE Windows Azure 90-day Trial Account.
# Logged in to the Windows Azure Management Portal. It looks like this with the 3-month Subscription
# created a new Affinity Group to connect all your cloud based services-selected EAST US
# Created new Storage Account
# registered a DNS Server
# created a Virtual Network
# created a VM using win server 2012 and configured Windows Server Active Directory
# created the second VM using SQLserver 2012 image
# created the third VM using winserver 2012 and configured Sharepoint 2013
# downloaded and installed the WindowsAzure PowerShell Management Tools in my windows 8 notebook
- Ran the following commands to build the connectivity between azure and my notebook
- Set the Execution policy of the azure powershell to RemoteSigned
- Imported Azure Modules into Windows Powershell(foreasier usage)
- Downloaded the publishsettingfile from myazure account and imported those setting into my notebook
For detailed step-by-step guide, youshould refer to this wonderful article by keith.