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rtravni42
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Dec 02, 2021

Support for M365 Apps (O365) on Windows 2022

We have a large number of Windows Server 2016 with M365 Apps (O365) and need to upgrade these servers now (end of support for WS2016 is Jan 2022). The next server product to install for us would be ...
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    EldenChristensen
    Sep 06, 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

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greatquux
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Sep 08, 2022
My current hypervisors can do all that too (with RDS on VMs, no one is on physical anymore) cheaper than Azure HCI, and in some cases it's unnecessary due to RDS hosting multiple users in one OS, so code is only loaded once, why do we need memory dedupe in that case anyway?
If I felt Microsoft would guarantee always releasing an LTSC of Office that would connect to 365 services, I'd feel better about M365 apps not being supported on Server, but I have the feeling (and don't tell me I'm crazy and it will never happen - people are wrong about those things all the time) that Microsoft will eventually say "sorry, no more Office LTSC, you gotta run 365 and if that means you gotta run on Azure VD then I guess that's your problem!" That's a situation we DON'T want to happen.
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Sep 08, 2022

I feel you, and agree it is quite uncertain what happens with Office LTSC, especially since Office 2022 LTSC release is quiet.
Just want to make clear that AzureStackHCI + AVD would be one option. Not intended to say it is the option.
"no one is on physical anymore"
In my posts and replies I always assume we are talking about virtualized workloads, too.


Repeating myself wait for October and check licensing terms before further decisions and conclusions on the matter. We need to have it written (and stable) in the product terms what is going to happen.

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