http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2012/06/17/creating-an-azure-persistent-vm-for-an-isolated-sharepoint-farm.aspxThe first step in being able to create a persistent VM in Azure is to get your account upgraded to take advantage of these features, which are all in preview. Once the features are enabled you can follow this process to get the various components configureden-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2012/06/17/creating-an-azure-persistent-vm-for-an-isolated-sharepoint-farm.aspx#3504827Wed, 20 Jun 2012 03:54:40 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3504827Steve Peschka<p>In this case the machines were joined to the domain before the images were uploaded to Azure. &nbsp;You communicate via machines via IPv4 or v6, just like you do on a normal network.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3504827" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2012/06/17/creating-an-azure-persistent-vm-for-an-isolated-sharepoint-farm.aspx#3504668Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:47:52 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3504668Alex<p>How do you join domain outside of Azure?</p> <p>How do you communicate between you local computer and server? </p> <p>IPv6?</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3504668" width="1" height="1">