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Azure Virtual Machines
An Azure service that is used to provision Windows and Linux virtual machines.
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In place upgrades are not supported as of now.
Microsoft does not support an upgrade of the operating system of a Microsoft Azure virtual machine. Instead, you should create a new Azure virtual machine that is running the supported version of the operating system that is required and then migrate the workload.
Reference docs:
- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2721672/microsoft-server-software-support-for-microsoft-azure-virtual-machines
- https://zcusa.951200.xyz/en-us/windows/wsl/release-notes
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