| Windows Server 2012 | Windows Server 2012 R2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Feature |
Removed | Deprecated | Removed |
Deprecated |
| AD FS v1 Web Agent | x | |||
| AD FS in-place upgrade from AD FS 1.0 or “out of box” AD FS 2.0 | x | |||
| AD FS support for “Resource Group” | x | |||
| AD FS support for NT Token mode | x | |||
| AD FS support for using AD LDS as an authentication store | x | |||
| AD RMS license revocation | x | |||
| AD RMS SDK | x | |||
| Application Server role | x | |||
| Built-in drivers for tape drives | x | |||
| Cluster Automation Server COM API | x (made optional) | x (optional) | ||
| Cluster.exe command-line interface | x (made optional) | x (optional) | ||
| CertObj COM and InetInfo interfaces of the Web Server role | x | |||
| Dcpromo.exe | x | |||
| Dfscmd.exe | x | |||
| Drivers for Jet Red RDBMS and ODBC | x | x | ||
| File Replication Service | x | |||
| GAA_FLAG_INCLUDE_TUNNEL_BINDINGORDER flat in GetAdaptersAddresses | x | |||
| Internet Information Service (IIS) 6.0 Manager | x | |||
| Layered Service Providers | x | x | ||
| IscsiVirtualDiskSnapshot and associated WMI methods | x | |||
| LPR/LPD protocol | x | x | ||
| Namespace for version 1.0 of WMI; WMIC (in WMI) | x | x | ||
| NDIS version 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2 APIs | x | x | ||
| Net DMA | x | |||
| Network Access Protection (NAP) | x | |||
| Network Information Service (NIS) and Tools (in RSAT) | x | |||
| Nfsshare.exe | x | |||
| NFSv2 support | x | |||
| Oclist.exe | x | |||
| ODBC support for 16- and 32-bit applications and drivers | x | x | ||
| ODBC/OLEDB support for Microsoft Oracle | x | |||
| ODBC/OLEDB support for SQL beyond SQL Server 7 and SQL 2000 | x | x | ||
| Providers for SNMP, Win32_ServerFeature API, Active Directory, MSClus WMI1.0 (in WMI) | x | x | ||
| Recovery disk creation | x | |||
| Remote Data Service | x | |||
| Role Collector (Ceiprole.exe) and associated API | x | |||
| SCSIport host-bus adapter | x | |||
| Servermanagercmd.exe | x | x | ||
| SIS Limited API | x | |||
| Slmgr.vbs options | x | |||
| SMB 1.0 | x | |||
| SMB.sys | x | |||
| SMTP and associated management tools | x | x | ||
| SQLXMLX | x | x | ||
| Storage Explorer snap-in for MMC | x | |||
| Storage Manager for SANs snap-in for MMC | x | |||
| Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications | x | x | ||
| Support for 32-bit cluster resource DLLs | x | |||
| Support for hardware drivers for XDDM | x | |||
| Support for Microsoft SQL Server prior to 7.0 | x | |||
| Support for native VGA via the PC/AT BIOS or UEFI CSM | x | |||
| Support for Static VMQ | x | |||
| Support for Token Rings | x | |||
| Support for Visual Studio Analyzer 2003 over ODBC, OLEDB, and ADO | x | |||
| System Image Backup (“Windows 7 File Recovery”) | x | |||
| Telnet server | x | |||
| VM Chimney (also called TCP Offload) (in Hyper-V) | x | |||
| Windows Server 2003 domain and functional levels of Active Directory | x | |||
| Windows Authorization Manager (AzMan) | x | x | ||
| Windows Help executable (WinHlp32.exe) | x | |||
| Windows Identity Foundation 3.5 | x | |||
| Windows Server Resource Manager | x | x | ||
| Winsock Direct | x | x | ||
| WMI root\virtualization namespace v1 (in Hyper-V) | x | x | ||
| XDR schema elements, XSl pattern feature of MSXML3 (in XML) | x | x | ||
