How to create a copy of your virtual machines!

Another common request when you are working with a remote SharePoint 2010 environment (either virtualized or not) is the ability to easily create a copy of it and run it as fast as possible. Fortunately, CloudShare offering includes this capability out of the box allowing you to create a complete copy of an existing environment o another one (either new or not). The steps for cloning an existing CloudShare environment are quite straightforward:
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CloudShare for the SharePoint Analyst

I have been using CloudShare for about the last year. For those of you that unaware CloudShare allows you to quickly and easily provision a SharePoint farm that is hosted in the cloud and that you have access to. In this article I will go through various options that CloudShare provides and provide my experience with the service as a SharePoint Analyst and some of the advantages that I see.
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How to increase your hard disk size on one of your virtual machines – Part II!

In the previous article published in CloudShare community blog How to increase your hard disk size in one of your virtual machines – Part I, I described one of the techniques available for increasing hard disk size in a virtual machine. In this new blog entry, I will explain a simpler workaround to achieve the same result:
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How to increase your hard disk size in one of your virtual machines – Part I!

One common requirement when you are working with a virtualized environment like any of those provided by CloudShare Pro Plus offering is the ability of increasing hardware (like disk capacity or available RAM) capacity on demand. For instance, imagine you want to test Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview in one of your virtual machines so that you will need some free GBs in order to install and start running it. If you don’t fulfill this installation requirement, the installation wizard will show you a warning message telling you need to clean your drive or try to install Visual Studio 11 in another one.

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How to share files between your local PC and a CloudShare Environment!

One common request when you are working with a remote SharePoint 2010 environment (either virtualized or not) is the ability to easily share or copy files between your local PC and the server machine.  For instance, It’s quite probable you need to transfer a certain amount of files from your SharePoint 2010 environment to the local PC when you want to make a backup of all the SharePoint 2010 artifacts (WebParts, Event Handlers, Workflows,…) you have been developing and testing during the last weeks.
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Accessing SharePoint sites with CloudShare Web Access

As I mentioned in my first guest post in CloudShare’s blog, and also in my Spanish blog, a very interesting and emerging approach for creating and setting up a functional SharePoint development machine just for programming, testing or demonstrations purposes is to create a full environment hosted in the cloud where you get ready all what you need in terms of the hardware and software requirements.
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Guest Post: How do I use CloudShare in my daily work with SharePoint!

In this guest post, Spanish SharePoint MVP Juan Carlos González talks about how CloudShare support his daily work with SharePoint in terms of development, building prototypes, prepare demos for customers, and so on.

Brief introduction

My name is Juan Carlos González and I work as a Solutions Architect in one of the 6 Microsoft Innovation Centers (MIC) located in Spain.

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Web access to your CloudShare machines

There are several instances you may need to access your CloudShare server from an external browser, without having to remotely log into your machine using RDP or Console access. This is especially useful if you’re showing customers a demo of your Web-based application or the QA team needs to test the Web interface. Well, we’ve had a feature called Web Access, which provides any-time Web access to your machines via a persistent Web address (URL).
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Welcome to CloudShare’s new blog

As we launch CloudShare’s new blog I would like to welcome our growing community and invite you to participate in the discussion threads that we will hold here.  I view this blog as a great place to interact with our users, share ideas and get feedback on the products and initiatives we are running at CloudShare.  For us, this is a great opportunity to hear our customer’s voices and opinions. For you, our users this is an opportunity to influence what we do here at CloudShare and enjoy better products and services.
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