--- title: Hands-on Windows Azure Services for Windows | daily.dev description: A hands-on walkthrough of Microsoft's Windows Azure Services for Windows Server, a Technical Preview that brings Azure-style self-service infrastructure (SQL... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/hands-on-windows-azure-services-for-windows-seaugntsa twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Hands-on Windows Azure Services for Windows | daily.dev og:description: A hands-on walkthrough of Microsoft's Windows Azure Services for Windows Server, a Technical Preview that brings Azure-style self-service infrastructure (SQL... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/hands-on-windows-azure-services-for-windows-seaugntsa og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SEaUgNtsA.png og:image:alt: Hands-on Windows Azure Services for Windows og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Hands-on Windows Azure Services for Windows **[Maarten Balliauw](https://daily.dev/sources/maartenballiauw)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hands-on walkthrough of Microsoft's Windows Azure Services for Windows Server, a Technical Preview that brings Azure-style self-service infrastructure (SQL Server, MySQL, Web Sites, Virtual Machines) into a private datacenter. The author deploys it across multiple VMs in Azure's IaaS, documents the roles needed (controller, storage, load balancer, frontend, publisher, System Center/Hyper-V nodes), shares painful setup and troubleshooting steps for failed installs, walks through configuring plans and quotas, demonstrates the end-user self-service portal for creating databases, and speculates about future hybrid public/private cloud integration and extensibility via an SDK. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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