Forum Discussion
Hyper-V Server 2022
Free 'Microsoft Hyper-V Server' product update
Since its introduction over a decade ago in Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V technology has been, and continues to be, the foundation of Microsoft’s hypervisor platform. Hyper-V is a strategic technology for Microsoft. Microsoft continues to invest heavily in Hyper-V for a variety of scenarios such as virtualization, security, containers, gaming, and more. Hyper-V is used in Azure, Azure Local, Windows Server, Windows Client, and Xbox among others.
Starting with Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019, the free ‘Microsoft Hyper-V Server’ product has been deprecated and is the final version of that product. Hyper-V Server 2019 is a free product available for download from the Microsoft Evaluation Center: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-hyper-v-server-2019
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019 will continue to be supported under its lifecycle policy until January 2029, see this link for additional information: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/hyperv-server-2019.
While Microsoft has made a business decision to no longer offer the free 'Microsoft Hyper-V Server' product, this has no impact to the many other products which include the Hyper-V feature and capabilities. This change has no impact to any customers who use Windows Server or Azure Local.
For customers looking to do test or evaluation of the Hyper-V feature, Azure Local includes a 60-day free trial and can be downloaded here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-local/ . Windows Server offers a free 180-day evaluation which can be downloaded from the Evaluation Center here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter
Microsoft remains committed to meeting customers where they are and delivering innovation for on-premises virtualization and bringing unique hybrid capabilities like no other can combined with the power of Azure Arc. We are announcing that Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019 was the last version of the free download product and that customers begin transitioning to one of the several other products which include Hyper-V or consider Azure.
Thank you,
Elden Christensen
Principal Group PM Manager
Windows Server Development Team
The aim appears to be to drive use of of Azure Virtual Desktop, which will run the 365 enterprise subscription apps, but that can only be hosted on Azure or a connected subscription service such as Azure Stack HCI - if you use a different hypervisor (ESXi in our case) this isn't in option.
I appreciate that this has gone off-topic, but it highlights the same basic approach as that which appears to be behind the withdrawal of Hyper-V Server - withdrawing or limiting the functionality of on-prem products, in order to drive traffic to subscription services which are either Azure-hosted or will only run on-prem if using linked Microsoft systems which also require subscriptions (such as Azure Stack HCI).
Hello,
New strategic way for MS : Stop updates for HyperV Server before 2029 !
Since 3 months or more, we all have the same update error about defender :
"1> Update for Microsoft Defender Antivirus antimalware platform - KB4052623 (Version 4.18.2207.7): Failed
Installation Result: Failed"
https://i.ibb.co/M28gNXG/2022-10-11-14h15-10.jpg
Maybe you have never paid attention, but just try to list update and try to install the KB4052623.
Tested it on fresh install continue to occur the pb.
The proof the pb is known since "a lot" (more than 3 months) :
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/910954/windows-defender-update-failes-on-hyper-v-2019-cor.html?page=2&pageSize=10&sort=oldest
https://www.google.com/search?q=hyperv+defender+platform+fail+2207