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Managed Cloud Windows - Spheres of Support


Rackspace provides support for Cloud Servers with a Managed Service Level which includes resizes, snapshots, host machine issues, monitoring, adding and removing servers, and managing IP addresses. To ensure Fanatical Support, Rackspace provides support for specific software and server configurations on Cloud Servers with a Managed Service Level.

Operating Systems

  • Windows 2008 Server R2
  • Windows 2012 Server

IIS 7.5

Supported Web (HTTP/HTTPS) FTP
Installation
Configuration
Troubleshooting
Monitoring
Patching

 

IIS 8

Supported Web (HTTP/HTTPS) FTP
Installation
Configuration
Troubleshooting
Monitoring
Patching

 

Database Servers

Supported MS SQL 2008 R2 MS SQL 2012 MySQL
Installation
Configuration X
Troubleshooting X
Monitoring
Patching X

 

Programming Languages

Supported ASP ASP .Net PHP (Fast CGI)
Installation
Configuration
Troubleshooting X
Monitoring X
Patching X

 

Software Firewall

Supported Windows Firewall
Installation
Configuration
Troubleshooting

 

FTP

Supported Windows FTP 7.5 IIS 8 FTP FileZilla
Installation
Configuration √l
Troubleshooting
Monitoring
Patching X

 

SMTP

Supported II6 Outgoing ONLY
Installation
Configuration
Trouble Shooting
Monitoring
Padding

 

Active Directory (US Only)

Supported Windows 2008 Windows 2012
Setup AD Controller
Add Users to AD
Establish AD Trust to customer's on-premise AD (their DC) utilizing RackConnect
Establish AD Trust between customer's dedicated and cloud environments, hosted at Rackspace
Establish AD Trust to Rackspace Intensive domain X X
Replication
Authentication for Web
Internal DNS for Active Directory
LDAP
Application partitions when utilzing other Rackspace Application Services (i.e. SharePoint, Exchange)
Development for Federated Services X X
Development for Application integration X X
Snapshots or Backups of Domain Controller X X
Group Policy Objects X X
Distributed File System (DFS) X X
RackConnect to Dedicated environment
Multiple Domain Controllers
Rights Management X X
Federated Services X X
CA Services X X

 

Other Packages

  • LoadBalancing - HAProxy is fully supported until LB-as-a-service is released. HAProxy will need to be installed on a linux server. Please contact your Managed Cloud Support team for more information.
  • Email - We are supporting Email through Rackspace Email and using IIS 6 SMTP on the server.
  • DNS - MC Windows is supporting the use of the cloud nameservers for DNS . Windows DNS is currently not supported.
  • Exchange is not supported at this time.
  • Sharepoint is not supported at this time.


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2 Comments

Are these services not available to Linux servers?

We have a list of supported services for Linux Managed Servers in this article:

http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/cloud-servers-with-managed-service-level-spheres-of-support

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