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rtravni42
Dec 02, 2021Brass Contributor
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 ...
- 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
Bernd Dausch
May 25, 2023Copper Contributor
Elden_Christensen
This is a great compromise. Thank you for making this possible.
To you have a link to a official Microsoft Document, to the new Support Policy Document. so we can switch in this direction?
Thanks
Bernd
This is a great compromise. Thank you for making this possible.
To you have a link to a official Microsoft Document, to the new Support Policy Document. so we can switch in this direction?
Thanks
Bernd
greatquux
May 25, 2023Brass Contributor
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
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
- -_RH_-May 25, 2023Steel Contributor
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.
- mkelly625May 25, 2023Copper ContributorThis is 1000000% true especially in Healthcare. Most of our applications are just now supporting Server 2019. We really need more than mainstream support
- MI5-AgentMay 25, 2023Brass Contributor
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.
- -_RH_-May 25, 2023Steel Contributor
greatquux Elden_Christensen 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.