Can't create symbolic link on a cifs mount (on a linux VM 14.10 Ubuntu)

I created a file share on an azure storage and mounted the share on a VM using:
# mount –t cifs //ACCOUNT_NAME.file.core.windows.net/SHARE/mnt/DIRECTORY
-o vers=2.1,username=ACCOUNT_NAME,password=ACCESS_KEY,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777
Everything works fine except I can't create symlinks inside the share! I get the following error:
"Operation not supported"
cifs should support symlinks....I am using a VM with Ubuntu 14.10.Been researching this for 2 hours and no solution as of yet! All suggestions appreciated! 

Thanks Malar,
In my opinion, there is something wrong in the smb.conf file of the server. In order to support symbolic links, unix extensions must be disabled there. Also the sfu option needs to be enabled. I tried everything possible on the client (VM) end. The issue
is clearly from the server
Best,
Karim

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