BizTalk Server 2020 End-of-Sale Announcement

Executive Summary:

BizTalk Server 2020 is the final release of BizTalk Server, and Microsoft expects sales of BizTalk Server 2020 and Host Integration Server 2020 to end March 31, 2027. Mainstream support for BizTalk Server 2020 continues through April 12, 2028, after which the product remains subject to Microsoft’s Fixed Lifecycle Policy. Microsoft also plans to offer eligible customers an optional, paid extended-mainstream support offering through April 10, 2030. Customers should begin planning their migration to Azure Logic Apps Standard or Azure Logic Apps Hybrid now, based on their deployment requirements.

Closing a chapter

Microsoft currently expects sales of BizTalk Server 2020 and Host Integration Server 2020 to end on March 31, 2027. Customers with existing valid licenses may continue to deploy and use the software in accordance with their licensing terms. Mainstream support for BizTalk Server 2020 continues through April 12, 2028. The end-of-sale date does not require customers to stop running licensed deployments, but customers should begin migration and licensing planning now because the extended-mainstream support offering described below remains subject to final eligibility, coverage, pricing, and purchasing terms.

Microsoft plans to offer eligible BizTalk Server 2020 customers a paid, time-limited extended-mainstream support option from April 13, 2028, through April 10, 2030. The offering is intended to provide additional migration time, will have narrower coverage than the original mainstream-support phase, and will not add new product features. Eligibility, availability, supported components, servicing commitments, purchasing terms, and the official offering name will be published before enrollment opens.

If you need to buy BizTalk Server 2020, or Host Integration Server 2020, you can do it until March 31, 2027.

Recommended action

Begin migrating your BizTalk Server workloads now, selecting Azure Logic Apps Standard or Azure Logic Apps Hybrid according to your organization’s hosting, networking, latency, data-residency, and operational requirements. Treat additional support coverage as contingency time rather than the default destination. Starting early gives teams time to inventory dependencies, redesign excluded capabilities, validate migrated solutions, and make commercial decisions before mainstream support ends. The Logic Apps Migration Agent can accelerate assessment and planning, convert supported artifacts, and assist with validation and deployment of refactored solutions on Azure Logic Apps Standard or Azure Logic Apps Hybrid.

 

Extended-mainstream support scope

Paid extended-mainstream support is planned as an optional, temporary bridge for eligible customers completing their migration. It is separate from the Extended Support phase available under Microsoft’s Fixed Lifecycle Policy and is expected to provide a different, narrower scope than the original mainstream-support phase. Microsoft expects the paid offering to run from April 13, 2028, through April 10, 2030. Certain BizTalk Server capabilities are expected to be excluded from the paid offering; the following list identifies the currently expected exclusions.

• Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) — The framework and tooling for capturing, tracking, and presenting near real-time business milestones, KPIs, and operational data from running BizTalk processes. Servicing, fixes, and updates for BAM components will not be provided under extended support.
• Enterprise Service Bus Toolkit (ESB Toolkit) — The libraries, itinerary services, and patterns that extend BizTalk with dynamic, itinerary-based routing, transformation, and centralized exception handling for service-oriented solutions. The ESB Toolkit will not receive servicing or support under extended support.
• Industry accelerators (SWIFT, HL7, and RosettaNet) — The domain-specific accelerators that provide schemas, pipelines, and validation for financial (SWIFT), healthcare (HL7), and supply-chain (RosettaNet) messaging standards. These accelerators will not receive servicing, schema updates, or support under extended support.
• Legacy enterprise adapters — The adapters that connect BizTalk to line-of-business and enterprise applications such as Siebel, PeopleSoft, TIBCO, and JD Edwards. These adapters will not receive servicing or support under extended support.
• Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tooling and integrations — The BizTalk-specific tooling and integrations used for source control, automated build, deployment, and testing of BizTalk applications. These BizTalk-specific ALM components will not receive servicing or support under extended support.
• BizTalk Server images in Azure Marketplace — Microsoft currently expects to deprecate the BizTalk Server virtual-machine offer in Azure Marketplace. This affects the future availability of the Marketplace deployment image; it does not, by itself, make an otherwise eligible existing BizTalk Server 2020 deployment ineligible for paid extended-mainstream support. Microsoft will publish the effective date and guidance for existing virtual machines, new or replacement deployments, scaling, disaster recovery, customer-managed images, licensing, billing, patching, and support.
• New Visual Studio version support — Compatibility with Visual Studio versions newer than Visual Studio 2022 will not be added under extended support. Customers should review the Visual Studio 2022 lifecycle and support offering separately, because its coverage terms are independent of BizTalk Server extended support.

Customers that depend on an excluded capability should prioritize the affected workloads in their migration plan. Use the Logic Apps Migration Agent to assess dependencies, inform target-architecture decisions, convert supported artifacts, and validate the migrated solution. Excluded BizTalk capabilities may require architectural redesign or manual implementation outside the agent.

Customers are not required to purchase paid extended-mainstream support. Customers that do not enroll remain subject to Microsoft’s Fixed Lifecycle Policy and the applicable BizTalk Server 2020 lifecycle dates. The availability of technical support, non-security updates, security updates, and other services during the standard Extended Support phase depends on the policy requirements and the customer’s applicable support arrangement. The paid extended-mainstream support offering described here is an optional, separate offering for eligible customers that require additional coverage while completing their migration.

After the end-of-sale date, customers that already hold valid BizTalk Server 2020 licenses may continue to deploy and use the software in accordance with the applicable licensing terms.

Eligibility

Paid extended mainstream support will be available to eligible customers with properly licensed BizTalk Server 2020 deployments. The final eligibility requirements will be provided in the published offering terms.

• Eligible products and versions: Paid extended-mainstream support is expected to be available for eligible deployments of BizTalk Server 2020 Enterprise, Standard, or Branch editions. Customers using Host Integration Server 2020 may also purchase the BizTalk Server paid extended-mainstream support offering to receive the applicable extended mainstream-support coverage for their HIS 2020 deployments, including customers that acquired BizTalk Server licences primarily to obtain HIS usage rights. BizTalk Server 2016, HIS 2016, and earlier versions will not be eligible.
• Azure Marketplace deployments: Existing BizTalk Server 2020 deployments created from eligible Azure Marketplace images are expected to qualify for paid extended-mainstream support, subject to the final offering terms. Customers must meet the applicable licensing, Software Assurance, supported-configuration, and complete-deployment coverage requirements. Microsoft will clarify how eligibility, licensed-core quantities, pricing, and purchasing apply when BizTalk Server software charges are included in the Azure Marketplace virtual-machine rate rather than acquired through a separate BizTalk Server licence agreement.
• Valid licenses: Customers are expected to maintain sufficient BizTalk Server licenses for each covered deployment in accordance with the applicable licensing model, including relevant core minimums, licensing of physical or virtual environments, and license-reassignment rules. Final extended-support licensing requirements will be stated in the published offering terms.
• Software Assurance: Active Software Assurance will be required at enrollment and throughout the applicable coverage period.
• Complete deployment coverage: Extended mainstream support must be purchased for all licensed cores in each enrolled deployment. Partial coverage of an enrolled production environment will not be permitted.
• Supported configuration: Covered environments must remain on a supported BizTalk Server 2020 configuration and meet published requirements for cumulative updates, operating systems, databases, and dependent components.
• Annual validation: Eligibility and licensed-core quantities will be confirmed for each coverage year. Customers must remain eligible to purchase Year 2 coverage.

As part of the eligibility review, Microsoft may request licensing records, deployment inventories, configuration details, and migration-plan information. Complete requirements and enrollment instructions will be published before the offering becomes available.

Purchasing details

Paid extended mainstream support will be offered as annual coverage based on the licensed cores in each enrolled BizTalk Server 2020 deployment. Microsoft will publish final pricing, availability, enrollment dates, purchasing channels, and transaction terms before sales begin.

Purchasing paid extended-mainstream support is optional and is not required for BizTalk Server 2020 to follow the Fixed Lifecycle Policy.

• Host Integration Server 2020: Eligible HIS 2020 customers will purchase coverage through the BizTalk Server paid extended-mainstream support offering. Customers that do not require HIS IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA) capabilities should also evaluate Azure Logic Apps Standard or Azure Logic Apps Hybrid as a modernization alternative before purchasing additional support coverage. Azure Logic Apps Standard does not support SNA; customers that depend on HIS 2020 SNA capabilities must transition to Host Integration Server 2028.
• Coverage periods: Year 1 is expected to begin the next day mainstream support ends, on April 13, 2028, and continue through April 13, 2029. Year 2 is expected to run from April 14, 2029, through April 10, 2030. The final offering terms will confirm whether the boundary dates are inclusive and will specify the exact enrollment and coverage periods.
• Purchase sequence: Microsoft expects customers to purchase Year 1 coverage by April 11, 2028, to remain eligible to purchase Year 2 coverage. The final enrollment deadline and Year 2 eligibility conditions will be specified in the published offering terms.
• Price: Microsoft expects annual extended-mainstream support pricing to be 100% of the applicable BizTalk Server license cost under the customer's licensing agreement. Extended mainstream support is expected to be offered as an annual add-on for eligible BizTalk Server licenses. Final pricing and costs may vary by licensing agreement, geography, currency, available discounts, and the published offering terms.
• How to purchase: Customers will purchase coverage through an authorized Microsoft commercial licensing channel with support from their Microsoft account team or licensing partner.
• Separate support services: The annual extended-mainstream support fee is expected to cover only the servicing and support rights defined in the final offering terms. It will not include unlimited incident support, advisory services, migration delivery, solution implementation, or other professional services; customers may need a separate support plan or services agreement for those needs.
• Annual purchase: Coverage will not renew automatically. Customers must place a separate order and complete an eligibility review for each year. Support beyond April 10, 2030, is not planned.

Contact your Microsoft account team or licensing partner to review eligible deployments, confirm licensed-core quantities, and obtain a quote when the offering becomes available.

Discounts and incentives

Microsoft plans to offer a targeted incentive for eligible existing BizTalk Server customers that are actively migrating to Azure Logic Apps Standard or Azure Logic Apps Hybrid. The incentive is designed to reduce near-term migration costs and support a faster move to the selected Logic Apps deployment model. It will not be automatic or broadly available; eligibility, approval, and final commercial terms must be confirmed by the customer’s Microsoft account team.

Timing and important conditions

• Who can qualify: The incentive is intended exclusively for existing BizTalk Server 2020 customers approaching the announced BizTalk Server lifecycle milestones and actively migrating workloads to Azure Logic Apps Standard or Azure Logic Apps Hybrid.
• Redemption period: The incentive is expected to become available on August 31, 2026, and remain available through April 12, 2028, subject to publication of the program terms, eligibility approval, continued availability, and any applicable funding limits.
• Discount duration: The approved discount is expected to apply during the customer’s first qualifying Enterprise Agreement term after approval. The published program terms will define the eligible agreement types, qualifying start date, covered Azure services, discount duration, and treatment of renewals or agreement changes.
• Qualification: The incentive is subject to eligibility review and approval.

Recommended action

Ask your Microsoft account team or licensing partner to assess your migration scope, confirm which eligible migration path applies, and request consideration for the incentive.

Migration support

Contact your Microsoft account team to determine whether your organization is eligible for migration assistance delivered by the Azure Logic Apps product group or through another available migration-factory program. Program names, eligibility criteria, engagement scope, and availability will be confirmed through your account team.

Migration options for Host Integration Server workloads

Customers using Host Integration Server 2020 for application, data, messaging, or terminal integration—and who do not depend on HIS SNA capabilities—should evaluate Azure Logic Apps Standard or Azure Logic Apps Hybrid as a modernization target. Azure Logic Apps provides mainframe and midrange integration capabilities for scenarios involving IBM CICS, IMS, IBM i programs, DB2, IBM MQ, host files, and 3270 applications. Customers should assess each workload against the available connectors, supported protocols, networking, security, and operational requirements. Azure Logic Apps Standard does not support SNA. Customers running HIS 2020 workloads that depend on SNA capabilities must plan to transition to Host Integration Server 2028.

Key dates

• March 31, 2027: Sales of BizTalk Server 2020 and Host Integration Server 2020 are expected to end.
• April 12, 2028: Mainstream support for BizTalk Server 2020 ends.
• April 13, 2028: BizTalk Server 2020 enters the Extended Support phase under Microsoft’s Fixed Lifecycle Policy, subject to the applicable policy requirements and lifecycle dates.
• April 13, 2028–April 10, 2030: Planned paid extended-mainstream support period for eligible BizTalk Server 2020 customers, subject to the final published offering terms.
• September 30, 2027: Host Integration Server 2028 is planned for release as a standalone product. Release timing is subject to change.
• July 7, 2030: Extended Support for Host Integration Server 2020 is currently scheduled to end. This date is separate from the planned BizTalk Server 2020 paid extended mainstream support period, which is expected to end April 10, 2030.

Start your modernization journey with the Logic Apps Migration Agent. Use the agent to inventory and assess your BizTalk applications, prioritize integrations, build a phased migration plan, convert supported artifacts and workflows, and support validation, testing, and deployment to Azure Logic Apps Standard or Azure Logic Apps Hybrid. Excluded or unsupported BizTalk capabilities may require architectural redesign or manual implementation outside the agent. The agent’s AI-assisted, human-in-the-loop approach can accelerate modernization while your teams retain control of architecture and implementation decisions. Contact your Microsoft account team to discuss migration-assistance eligibility and commercial options.

Learn more: BizTalk Server product lifecycle update | Bringing all your integration workloads to Logic Apps Standard | Fixed Lifecycle Policy – Extended Support