Windows Server roles and features compatibility in Azure Cloud

Supported Windows server roles in Microsoft Azure cloud:• AD DS
• Active Directory Federation Services
• Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
• Application Server
• DNS Server
• Failover Clustering
• File Services
• Network Policy and Access Services
• Print and Document Services
• Remote Access (Web Application Proxy)
• Remote Desktop Services
• Web Server (IIS)
• Windows Server Update Services

Unsupported Windows server roles in Azure cloud:

• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Server
• Hyper-V
• Remote Access (Direct Access)
• Rights Management Services
• Windows Deployment Services

Unsupported Windows Server features at the time of publishing this info:

• Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) Server
• Multipath I/O
• Network Load Balancing
• Peer Name Resolution Protocol
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Service
• Storage Manager for storage area networks (SANs)
• Windows Internet Name Service
• Wireless local area network (LAN) service

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