Enable Win32/NTFS long paths by default in all Windows images that support it
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The group policy option "Enable Win32 long paths" is not enabled in the standard Windows Server 2016 Datacenter image for Azure Batch. This is problematic since Batch has quite a deep folder hierarchy for task folders and application packages, hitting 260 characters easily. I don't think there are any downsides in enabling this by default, and it would remove common headaches.
Side note: I wanted to use the Data Science VM image (a Batch adaptation I assume) but this is still at Windows Server 2012 which doesn't have the long paths option.
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