[REFERENCE] Azure IaaS and FIM 2010 R2 SP1

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Azure IaaS was announced for General Availability earlier this week.  https://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2013/04/16/the-power-of-and.aspx.  FIM is supported as a workload on this infrastructure.  We can see additional documentation on this here (https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2721672).  The Microsoft Knowledge Base article cannot hold all details, so I will provide some basic best practices.

  • Please think about your network and deployment configuration. 
  • Having a Domain Controller in the cloud should be considered (and you will see in later documentation that it will be recommended).  See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj156090.aspx#BKMK_Scenarios.
  • You will need to utilize a local SQL Server on the same Azure Virtual Machine. 
    • We have not tested,and do not intend to test, running SQL Server on a different server.
    • Using SQL Azure is not supported due to architectural differences.
  • Understand the cost model.  You will be charged for the Azure Virtual Machine, the Storage, the VPN tunnel itself and network traffic. 
  • Not all workloads and scenarios will make sense to run in Azure IaaZ. 
  • Support for FIM on an Azure VM is via the FIM Support Team and not Azure.
  • FIM 2010 R2 SP1 and later is supported on the IaaS

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