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Forum software supporting deployment to Windows Azure

I am currently looking for a web forum deployment on an azure platform.

I did some research, and so far I have been able to find a total of 6 ASP.Net forums:

As far as I know:

  • The Telligent community is difficult, damn it, to have the simplest bit of information, so I put it off for my research.
  • InstantForum.Net is a website project that is incompatible with azure, but the topic was mentioned on their forum in may 2011 , there are still no new answers
  • YetAnotherForum may be compatible with Azure because it is a web application project, and they posted the SQL Azure deployment procedure, and the topic was tried , but I have not tried to deploy the solution yet to confirm it.
  • NearForums is a new project that can be deployed to Azure, but since it is really young, Iā€™m not sure and would like a more mature project.
  • MvcForum is still in alpha stage and is at the same level as NearForums
  • There is no Jibit forum information yet.

Am I missing something? Are there any other forums that I have not heard about, or any other experience on the forum listed here?

The criterion I'm looking for regarding the support part is that it can be deployed through a web role and does not require a virtual machine.

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Take a look at the market: https://datamarket.azure.com/browse/Applications?Query=forum

Some of the wider CMS offerings, such as Kentico and DNN, offer forum components that you could use. You may be able to deploy them to new websites, as well as the already mentioned VM.

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If you decide to choose Windows Azure Virtual Machine for Windows , you can run any of the above ASP.NET Forum applications without any problems. With Windows Azure VM for Windows, you can deploy the ASP.NET application directly to your virtual machine like any other IIS server and configure it the way you want to use it.

Yes, there may be some restriction for using an application if you decide to choose Cloud Services (or perhaps some of them with Windows Azure websites), however, compatibility with any application on Windows Azure Virtual Machine is not required with Windows Azure.

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