SharePoint Labs – 2016 2013 2010

2016

Using Azure to create SharePoint Labs
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mvpawardprogram/2015/05/25/create-a-sharepoint-production-farm-on-azure/
More from the cloud engineer

2013

Several Setup 2013 labs for Testing or Dev Environment http://thuansoldier.net/?p=2618
http://sharepointdemobuilds.codeplex.com/
http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/01/07/step-by-step-build-a-free-sharepoint-2013-lab-in-the-cloud-with-windows-azure-31-days-of-servers-in-the-cloud-part-7-of-31.aspx#.Uz8DcvldU3I
http://absolute-sharepoint.com/2014/10/create-sharepoint-2013-farm-in-azure-step-step.html
Sorry Office Demos are now gone – pulled June 30 2014.

2010

SharePoint 2010 Virtual Labs
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs/bb512933.aspx

2012 SQL Server Microsoft has posted this VHD
Business Intelligence - SQL Server 2012 – RC0 - PowerView - PowerPivot Excel Documents.
http://www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/pd/BIVHD/enus/default.aspx (Large Download)
Note that these use hyper-v in Windows Server but if using Windows 7 you can download Virtual PC
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx
Converting the SharePoint and Office 2010 Information Worker Virtual Machines to VMWare from Hyper-V http://sharepointyankee.com/2010/06/03/converting-the-sharepoint-and-office-2010-information-worker-virtual-machines-to-vmware-from-hyper-v/

SharePoint 2010 SP1 VHD (Virtual Hard Drive)
If you don't want virtual labs (too slow) then use this great VHD from Microsoft.  I was able to reduce the memory to 6 GB and the first VM with sharepoint installed has worked well.  The other two VMs that contain Lync and Exchange remain untested.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27417
Video Bonus – Setting Up a SharePoint Developer Virtual Machine
http://www.sharepoint-howto.com/2011/12/16/setting-up-a-sharepoint-developer-virtual-machine/

Here is more information from Microsoft on the Information Worker Demo. Note that this download contains a three Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V Virtual Machines set for evaluating and demonstrating Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and Project Server 2010.  Login to all Virtual Machines using the Virtual Machine Console as the following user:

User: administrator
Password: pass@word1
Domain: CONTOSO

Virtual machine “a” contains the following pre-configured software:

1. Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard Evaluation Edition, running as an Active Directory Domain Controller for the “CONTOSO.COM” domain with DNS and WINS
2. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition with Analysis, Notification, and Reporting Services
3. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
4. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP1 Enterprise Edition
5. Microsoft Office Web Applications SP1
6. Microsoft FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 SP1
7. Microsoft Project Server 2010 SP1
8. Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 SP1
9. Microsoft Visio 2010 SP1
10. Microsoft Project 2010 SP1
11. Microsoft Lync 2010

Virtual machine “b” contains the following pre-configured software:

1. Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard Evaluation Edition, joined to the “CONTOSO.COM” domain
2. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1

Virtual machine “c” contains the following pre-configured software:

1. Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard Evaluation Edition, joined to the “CONTOSO.COM” domain
2. Microsoft Lync Server 2010

Active directory has been preconfigured over 200 “demo” users with metadata in an organizational structure. All of these user profiles have been imported and indexed for search within SharePoint Server 2010, with “contoso\administrator” granted Domain Admin permissions.
SharePoint Server 2010 has been configured in a “Complete” farm using the default SQL Server 2008 R2 instance. A default site has been created using the Team Site template at http://intranet.contoso.com/ and a FAST Search Center at http://intranet.contoso.com/search/.
Virtual machine “a” is required for all scenarios, image “b” for email functionality and image “c” for instant messaging.