May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
518 pages
10h 6m
English
Content preview from Implementing Azure Solutions
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Selection of a Guest OS and an update level
What does this point mean?
The answer is really very simple: you can, if necessary, influence the OS edition (that is, the OS family) and the version (that is, the update level) for the host VM of your Cloud Service.
All you have to do is:
- In the first line of the Service Configuration File (ServiceConfiguration.cscfg), you must add the attributes osFamily="" and osVersion="" to the ServiceConfiguration element.
- Then fill the attributes with values:
<ServiceConfiguration serviceName="<service-name>" osFamily="<osfamily-number>" osVersion="<os-version>" schemaVersion="<schema-version>"> </ServiceConfiguration>
- Valid values for the osFamily attribute can be found in the following table: