Laravel 5.x web.config file for Windows Azure hosting

web.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <urlCompression doDynamicCompression="true" doStaticCompression="true" dynamicCompressionBeforeCache="true"/>
        <staticContent>
            <remove fileExtension=".svg" />
            <mimeMap fileExtension=".svg" mimeType="image/svg+xml" />
            <mimeMap fileExtension=".woff" mimeType="application/font-woff" />
            <clientCache httpExpires="Sun, 29 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT" cacheControlMode="UseExpires" />
        </staticContent>
        <httpProtocol>
            <customHeaders>
                <add name="Strict-Transport-Security" value="max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains"/>
                <add name="Access-Control-Allow-Origin" value="*" />
                <add name="Access-Control-Allow-Headers" value="X-Requested-With,Content-Type" />
                <add name="Access-Control-Allow-Methods" value="POST,GET,OPTIONS,DELETE,PUT,PATCH" />
            </customHeaders>
        </httpProtocol>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <rule name="Laravel" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" appendQueryString="true" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
         <handlers>
            <remove name="OPTIONSVerbHandler" />
            <remove name="PHP56_via_FastCGI" />
            <add name="PHP56_via_FastCGI" path="*.php" verb="GET,HEAD,POST,PUT,DELETE,OPTIONS" modules="FastCgiModule" scriptProcessor="D:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\v5.6\php-cgi.exe" resourceType="Either" />
        </handlers>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

@allebb
https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/laravel-and-azure/replies/316440
is this fix required ?