Bryan Von Axelson 2010

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I recently received the following question from a partner that was listening to the How to Demo Office 365 webcast -

Question: Can you tell me if Microsoft has a cloud service for their partners to use for SharePoint training.  I am working on my SharePoint 2010 MCTS, but I need a server to load the software on.  Can you direct me to a link?

Answer: What is being described is a stateful VM, while we do have SharePoint Online it is already installed and ready to go.  As far as our Windows Azure cloud services, we currently  do not offer a “stateful” virtual machine.

But I did come up with hopefully a good alternative – TechNet Virtual Labs:

TechNet Virtual Lab:

For Additional SharePoint TechNet labs - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs/bb512933