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Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds: RAW

By : Marcel van den Berg
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Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds: RAW

By: Marcel van den Berg

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
9
Summary and a Look into the Near Future
Index

Microsoft software support


As Microsoft Azure is a Microsoft product, it doesn't automatically mean that all Microsoft software is fully supported to run on the Microsoft Azure platform.

However, most Microsoft software is supported. Supported means that customers can call Microsoft support and will get full support if their software is running on Microsoft Azure.

Windows Server 2008 and later is supported. There are a few roles that are unsupported:

  • Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Server

  • Hyper-V

  • Remote Access (Direct Access)

  • Rights Management Services

  • Windows Deployment Services

Besides the aforementioned roles, Microsoft also does not support the following features:

  • Bitlocker drive encryption (on the operating system hard disk, but it can be used on data disks)

  • Windows Server Failover Clustering (except for SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups)

  • High Availability and Disaster Recovery for SQL Server in Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

  • Internet Storage Name Server

  • Multipath I/O

  • Network Load Balancing...