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Windows Server 2016 GA available in Azure! – used it to deploy RDS on Azure IaaS!

By October 25, 2016April 2nd, 2018No Comments

Window Server 2016 DataCenter (14393.321) is now available as an image in Azure IaaS.
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I decided to use it to roll out as part of my existing ARM Deployment of RDS on Azure IaaS using JSON. One of the awesome things about the ARM/JSON approach is that it all it took was adding a single parameter option into the azuredeploy.parameters.json file to complete this!

This is where I added the new SKU inside the template parameters file a newly allowed value.
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And before launching the ARM deployment, the SKU can be selected from a dropdown box, now with the default being Windows Server 2016 Datacenter.
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The entire deployment is now fully performed on Windows Server 2016, RD Web Access now shows the Windows Server 2016, where Technical Preview 5 (TP5) did not.
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This version is not available on MSDN yet, so Cloud First, Mobile First!