Azure and Guest OS Families
Recently one of our clients came to us with an issue: the Azure SDK 2.7.8 was being retired and needed updating for their Azure Cloud Services. OK, simple enough, but the issue was that the latest versions of the Azure SDK require .NET 4.6.2 installed to work. You see, when you deploy a Cloud Service to Azure, it deploys it to a VM that is spun up as part of the deployment process. And by default, Windows Server 2012 R2 does not come with .NET 4.6.2 installed. So the problem was, how do you get 4.6.2 installed on that flavour