Building SharePoint Farms has always been a long tedious process. Community efforts like AutoSPInstaller helped improve the deployment process of SharePoint Server itself but you still needed to install the supporting infrastructure and the base server OS manually. PowerShell and the Azure Desired State Configuration (DSC) extension make it possible to automate the deployment of complete SharePoint Farms, including the supporting infrastructure like SQL and Active Directory. In this Session we'll talk about how to build and configure an entire SharePoint Farm, including all the supporting servers and infrastructure in Azure, using a combination of PowerShell and DSC. Sample PowerShell Scripts and DSC configurations will be provided so you can try it yourself later.

This was submitted as a workshop, but can be cut down to a standard session by removing the hands-on portion for attendees and just demonstrating the concepts.