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