Support lifecycle and related dates
The 14th of October 2025 marks another pivotal moment in Microsoft’s product lifecycle, as a large spectrum of very popular and widely deployed software reaches end-of-support. This includes Windows 10 and Windows 11 22H2. On the productivity front, the extended support for Office 2016 and 2019, along with Visio 2016/2019, Project 2016/2019, and server-side tools like Exchange Server 2016/2019, S… Read the rest “Save The Date 14th October 2025”
With the release of Exchange 2019 CU14 today, a separate announcement was added to the release post to highlight that only CU23 is supported for Exchange 2016. Exchange Server 2016 is supported until the end of its support in 2025, however in order to receive support and to obtain Security Updates (SUs) you must be running CU23. CU22 and all older releases of Exchange 2016 are no longer supporte… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 – CU23 Now Required”
Today marks the end of Exchange 2019’s mainstream support. This will likely resurface the discussion about what do we do with on-premises Exchange, where is the next version and do we even still need Exchange Server if all mailboxes are in Exchange Online? While there is a solution to removing the last Exchange Server from on-premises it does have it's caveats and considerations. Please ensure … Read the rest “End of Exchange 2019 Mainstream Support”
Today Exchange 2013 reaches the end of the road and it will transition out of extended support. Hopefully everyone has migrated to a newer version and/or Office 365. But experience tells me that will not be the case.
Hopefully no one will have Exchange 2013 published to the Internet either, but again experience says otherwise…
Please note that Microsoft will not provide technical support, time zon… Read the rest “End of Exchange 2013 Support”
Please consider this a quick PSA (Public Service Announcement) as it is still common that I run into environments with the IIS SMTP service still running and processing mail.
While the component has had a long and interesting life, it is now unsupported as it is tied to the support lifecycle of Windows Server 2003.
For more details and information please see:
How to: Install and Configure SMTP Virtua… Read the rest “IIS SMTP Virtual Server Component No Longer Supported”
Now that multiple services have stopped supporting IE11 coupled with the end of support for legacy Edge, it is imperative that we transition to an updated browser on all of our devices. IE11 is already unsupported for multiple Microsoft services, and the list will grow over time. For example Microsoft Teams support ceased on the 30th November 2020, and overall Microsoft 365 support ends on the 17t… Read the rest “QuickTip – Removing IE11 Via Command Line”
Exchange 2010 has proven to be a solid and innovative product over the last decade. From consolidating three different flavours of continuous replication, adding RPC Client Access and the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard in Service Pack 2 we have a lot to be thankful for. However it is time so say goodbye to this old friend.
I can only imagine the number of time people have been running setup… Read the rest “End of Exchange 2010 Support”
October the 13th 2020 is not only the end of support for Office 2010 and Exchange 2010, it also signals that Exchange 2016 will transition into extended support.
Exchange 2016 will continued to be supported as per the lifecycle support policy.
The below excerpt from the Microsoft lifecycle page illustrates when Exchange 2016 will exit extended support in 2025.
Exchange 2016 will be servic… Read the rest “End of Exchange 2016 Mainstream Support”
For awareness, Office 2010 has one year remaining of its extended support lifecycle. Office 2010 SP2 has been required since October 2014. All Office 2010 installs must be running SP2 in order to receive security updates since that time.
On the 13th of October 2020, Office 2010 will exit out of extended support. Please plan to transition to a support client well in advance.
There are many feature … Read the rest “End of Outlook 2010 Support – T Minus 1 Year”
At this point we are now one year away from the end of Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 support. Many of Exchange administrators and architects will need to look at alternative solutions for publishing and securing Exchange, though this should have previously instigated.
TMG 2010 will exit out of extended support on the 14th of April 2020. Please plan accordingly.