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When will MS stop supporting 2003? 1

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hovercraft

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Jun 19, 2006
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Greetings,

I have to upgrade our win 2000 SBS and I'm not comfortable with upgrading to 2007. But a large factor will be based on wether Microsoft will continue to support 2004 for the next ~5 years-ish.

Does anyone know if Microsoft has set a date to stop support for Windows Server 2003?

Thanks,
Hovercraft
 
According to support for SBS 2003 R2 will end 2 years after the NEXT PRODUCT is released.

Longhorn is at least another year or more away and the SBS versions usually follow within a year. So that would give you about 4 years.

It should be noted that support for Windows 2003 will end shortly. Supported versions will require a minimum of SP1 for security updates. Currently SP0 and SP1 are supported under the N-1 policy. When SP2 ships in a few months, SP0 will no longer be supported.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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Hey thanks for the info Mark and Strongm. I had searched Microsoft for just such a table but obviously didn't use the right criteria.

I'm a bit confused though. I thought 2007 was released on Dec 6th. What was released on Dec 6th if 2007 hasn't been released yet?

This makes the decision simple :)
 
FYI Regarding the Longhorn (2007) server - it's scheduled for released Q2 - mid 2007. The same time as Vista SP1 (to update the Vista kernel to the same version of the release kernel for Server 2007)



Steve.

"They have the internet on computers now!" - Homer Simpson
 
Although Vista wasn't delayed during Beta 2 or the RC's - which is the same stage we are at now with Longhorn Server! ;-)

(Played about with it and it seems pretty feature complete)




Steve.

"They have the internet on computers now!" - Homer Simpson
 
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