UPDATE: Added a Step-by-Step article for building a Cloud Distribution Point to the list of Additional Resources in this article ...
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 ( “ConfigMgr 2012 SP1” ) offers lots of great new capabilities for IT Pros, but building a lab to evaluate, test and study ConfigMgr can be challenging if you don’t have spare hardware capacity in your data center. In this Step-by-Step Guide, I’ll walk through the steps that I used to build my ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 demo and study lab in the cloud on the Windows Azure platform.
This makes a great scenario for leveraging our Windows Azure FREE 90-Day Trial Offer to build your lab environment for FREE in the cloud for up to 90-days. Using the configuration outlined in this article, you’ll be able to build a functional lab environment that will be accessible for approximately 150 hours of compute usage each month at no cost to you under this 90-day trial offer.
Lab Scenario: ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 in the Cloud