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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
MI5-Agent I hear you, especially on not being able to upgrade to the latest OS until 1-2 years after release, so 5 years is reduced to 3-4 in the real world. In fairness to Microsoft, 5 years mainstream support has been their standard for quite some time, though software support has usually continued into the extended support period rather than dropping once mainstream support ends. However, 5 years support is better than none at all and being forced to W365 or AVD.
I think as customers we're caught between the waterfall/traditional licensed OS and ~agile/subscription licensed application worlds. I could be wrong, but I get the impression that, while Microsoft dogfoods their own software, they don't dogfood their own licensing and experience the same licensing conundrums their customers face. Perhaps a more continuous upgrade model OS like Azure Stack HCI could resolve the issue in the long run, though that doesn't help much today.
- This is 1000000% true especially in Healthcare. Most of our applications are just now supporting Server 2019. We really need more than mainstream support
This is all far too complicated and it is not a typical use case to plan upgrades of RDS hosts each five years excactly. Many software companies don't have their applications ready for the newest OS in the beginning. Thus a migration would be happen 1 or 2 years after release and so the remaining run time would only be 3-4 years for the hosts. Usually you don't use Office on RDS hosts only, so upgrades/migrations are a lot of work as well and such a short support period of M365 Apps or even Office 2021 LTSC is more than questionable.
10 years of support were great, even 7 would be still fine but 5 or even shorter with M365 is really a mess. It is just a campaign to give RDS up, capitulate and book Azure virtual desktops for even more money.
The only thing who could stop this develpoment are antitrust authorities.
greatquux EldenChristensen Bernd Dausch Note only 2302 or later is supported on Server 2022. The latest Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel release is 2208 and is NOT supported (at this time). The latest Monthly Enterprise Channel (2303) and Current Channel (2304) are supported.
EldenChristensen Thank you very, very much for your help drawing attention to and getting a sensible resolution to this issue!
- This puts healthcare customers like us in an extremely tough spot knowing they can't move as fast as MS wants everyone to move. Generally speaking, healthcare runs on extended support for many years before jumping to the next OS. That's largely due to the fact that jumping to a newer OS adds infrastructure costs across the board due to the additional resources required to run the newer OS.
- Yes, PLEASE stay the course! As has been emphasized in this thread, while the need to more frequently upgrade Windows Server is not ideal, it's certainly much preferred than having to use individual desktops (whether physical or virtual) in order to provide Office to users.
- EldenChristensenWe do not make support statements for unreleased products, but I would expect us to stay the course.
Thanks!
Elden To be sure:
If we understand this statement correctly, does this mean that the next version of Windows Server will also get MS365 support?
Thank you!- I think the article is this one:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/endofsupport/windows-server-support
I'd also recommend everyone change their Office 365 channel to the Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/semi-annual-enterprise-channel
