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rtravni42
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Dec 02, 2021
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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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    Elden_Christensen
    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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MI5-Agent
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Nov 28, 2022

Elden_Christensen 

 

it all get's more complicated and more expensive.

 

A simple RDS Farm with two or three hosts? Forget it. Azure Stack HCI subscription there, VDI subscription here and lot's of work and new dependencies.

 

The way is to frustate internal or external stuff, in the end you click all options on your M365 subscription and loose more money for functionality you had all over the years for less and in a simple manner.

 

That's just the way it is.

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greatquux
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Nov 28, 2022
Agreed, it absolutely is Microsoft squeezing people for more money. It will cause them to much more seriously investigate migrations off Microsoft or isolating Windows-dependent apps to a particular silo the way people have done with IBM mainframes. If MS wants to push AVD as the way forward it should run on any hypervisor not just Azure Stack HCI whatever.