DPM 2012 SP1 Backup to Cloud

I realize I'm going to be a little ahead of where the software is on this one but on the subjects of backups, DPM, Instead of pointing DPM to the azure public cloud can I use our Private Cloud (Windows 2012, System Center 2012 SP1 + Azure Services for
Windows Server)?
Thanks
Si
Simon Stearn - Militant South - Agile Architecture

I assume that when you say Azure Services for Windows Server, you are referring to Windows Azure Pack?
If you are doing this on premise then I think you would need to stick to the conventional DPM-to-DPM model?
I can't personally imagine that the DPM team will add the ability to use the Cloud Backup feature with an on premise Azure cloud as the capability for on premise off-site backup is already there in DPM-to-DPM.
Thanks,
Richard
Richard Green | MCSA 2012, MCSE 2003, MCTS Desktop Virtualization, VCP5-DV http://richardjgreen.net

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https://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2012/01/30/fix-the-dpm-console-crashes-and-logs-event-id-945-when-making-any-changes.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2905631/en-us
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