This is a great blog post by my peer Kevin Remde – Moving a local MV to the Cloud

http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinremde/archive/2013/01/05/31-days-of-servers-in-the-cloud-move-a-local-vm-to-the-cloud-part-5-of-31.aspx

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