Microsoft pushes back support for Exchange Server 2010 for nine months

Microsoft pushes back the announced end-of-support date for Exchange Server 2010. Instead of stopping product security updates on January 14, 2020, Microsoft is now considering removing free support for the product on January 13, 2020. October 2020.

Microsoft officials announced on September 16th. They said they made the adjustment "after studying and analyzing the deployment status of a large number of Exchange clients". Officials added, "We also know that some of you are upgrading a newer version of Exchange Server on – premise or making more transformative migrations to the cloud with Office 365 and Exchange Online. "

October 13, 2020 is the end of Office 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 support.

Reminder: Users can not directly upgrade Exchange Server 2010 on-premise to Exchange Server 2019. They will first need to access Exchange 2013 or 2016, as Microsoft notes in the blog post of today. 39; hui. The first recommendation from Microsoft is to switch from Exchange 2010 to Exchange Online / Office 365, unsurprisingly.

Some may be wondering if Microsoft will also postpone the end date of support for Windows 7, which should no longer receive free security updates after January 14, 2020. I'm 99.999% sure that Microsoft will not move not Windows 7 deadline, but I asked to check three times. As previously announced, Microsoft will also stop supporting Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 support for free on January 14, 2020 (unless users agree to move their workloads to Azure).

Recently, Microsoft has also pushed back the end date of most of its Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) tools. In an effort to consolidate end-of-support dates, Microsoft will issue more patches for most of its MDOP tools after April 14, 2026. The original end-of-support dates for these tools varied from January 12, 2021 (for AGPM v4 SP3), April 14, 2026 for the DaRT 10.0. Microsoft does not change the end date of MED-V 2.0, which remains on April 13, 2021.