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I run workshops. Instead of boring lectures, I give the attendees the opportunity to get real hands-on experience and feel the scenario instead of listing only. Specially the Visual Studio 2012 ALM scenario’s are really nice, the attendees work together on a scenario like: code review, feedback, agile planning and testing. I run these workshops with Azure Virtual Machines, every attendee has it’s own environment on Azure prepared and configured by me for that specific workshop. After I created an image (see: How to Capture an Image of a Virtual Machine) one day ahead of the workshop, I start creating Azure VM’s just before the workshop starts (see: Create a Virtual Machine). After the workshop I kill everything again. so, I only use it for a minimal amount of time, a perfect cloud benefit scenario. A small calculation on the Azure costs will give you insight in how many time you can run such a workshop a month. Indeed this costs so less money that you can run these kind of workshops for 20 people multiple times a month without getting over the free boundaries of your MSDN Azure account. Probably this will change while, the in beta, Azure VM’s are still free. You ‘re only charged for bandwidth and blob storage, which is cheap.

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