I sat down the other day to test an installation of Tableau Server and Microsoft Azure. I was able to provision a Tableau Server instance and a SQL Server instance, install some sample data, and create a viz - all in about an hour.
Here is a quick start guide on exactly what I did to achieve this... enjoy!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Qy-VXfErJLTFhpNFJyUWlISDQ/edit?usp=sharing