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Support for M365 Apps (O365) on Windows 2022
First off I would like to thank everyone for the feedback and apologize for the delay in responding to this thread. Your feedback has made a difference, and sparked many internal discussions... we have customers running M365 on WS2016 and WS2019 today, and we want to enable staying current and secure being able to upgrade to WS2022.
<UPDATED EDIT> In response to your feedback we have announced support for M365 on Windows Server 2022, please see this link for additional information:
Windows Server end of support and Microsoft 365 Apps - Deploy Office | Microsoft Learn
Again, thank you for your feedback and passion!!
Elden Christensen
Principal Group PM Manager
Windows Server Development Team
MicrosoftFirst off I would like to thank everyone for the feedback and apologize for the delay in responding to this thread. Your feedback has made a difference, and sparked many internal discussions... we have customers running M365 on WS2016 and WS2019 today, and we want to enable staying current and secure being able to upgrade to WS2022.
<UPDATED EDIT> In response to your feedback we have announced support for M365 on Windows Server 2022, please see this link for additional information:
Windows Server end of support and Microsoft 365 Apps - Deploy Office | Microsoft Learn
Again, thank you for your feedback and passion!!
Elden Christensen
Principal Group PM Manager
Windows Server Development Team
Hello Elden_Christensen,
Thanks for your message in this topic, however I was quite amazed reading this. I needed to make a quote for a client for a new server with Hyper-V and running one VM as RDS server. They work fully in Office 365 now and use OneDrive/Sharepoint for their files syned to their desktop. If Microsoft stops support for RDS servers with Office then RDS server would die soon too, because it's then of no use for a lot of clients anymore. Everybody uses Microsoft Office apps.
That said: I'm also curious why this disicison was made in the first place. What was the exact reason behind it because I cannot seem to find one in articles about this. Does Microsoft wants to push everyone to cloud instead of on-prem? What are the (good) alternatives according to Microsoft for RDS with Office and then specifically on-premise?
So also for me supporting Microsoft Office (like volume license versions) and Microsoft 365 apps on RDS server would be highly requested feature...
Hope to hear from you, thanks!