Deploying SharePoint on Windows Azure Made easier

Building SharePoint farms and Internet facing websites that scale in real time is among the most popular ways to use Windows Azure Virtual Machines.

Michael Washam, a senior program manager for Windows Azure, suggests that using SharePoint can be made even easier by using Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets.

“Using the new Remote PowerShell functionality and the Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets, we have put together new sample PowerShell scripts,” Washam wrote in a Windows Azure blog post. “You can use these new scripts to automate all the required steps when rolling out a SharePoint server farm, saving time and effort.”