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AFidel
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Jan 27, 2024

Future of M365 apps on Windows Server 2025?

With the official branding for Server 2025 and the preview release announced it's now time for my team to start looking at where we go for our next end user remote access platform, do we go Windows 1...
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Karl-WE
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Jan 27, 2024

AFidel no worries. M365 are supported during mainstream support. This means 5 years after release. 
Having Software Assurance on Windows Server or Windows Server CSP Subscription is certainly a useful and license economic choice. This also opens the door for the cheapest way to adopt Azure Stack HCI, as the active CPU core per month costs are reduced to 0, aswell as you would be gaining Azure Hybrid rights.

The official announcement was made at Ignite

check out: https://ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions/f3901190-1154-45e3-9726-d2498c26c2c9?source=sessions (42:00 min)

Independent Azure Stack HCI is still a great plattform, even if you do not need to use AVD, because of many unique functional features, easy management of single and multiple clusters and licensing benefits compared to Windows Server 2022 / 2025 and other competitor products.

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