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Windows Server removed features

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Windows Server · Official Microsoft guidanceObserved changes retained

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Observation details · observed 23 Oct 09:55 UTC
Observed by ChangeIntel
23 Oct 09:55 UTC
Source update metadata
19 Mar 17:34 UTC
First observed on this installation
5 Oct 17:20 UTC
Last successful check
today 05:02 UTC
Next check due
today 11:02 UTC

Observation time is not publication time, and a comparison does not establish an effective date. Full source bodies are not published; this page holds generated summaries, section headings and, as the page's license allows, Microsoft's changed wording. A documentation edit does not confirm feature availability in an environment.

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Timeline

From the capture of 23 Oct 09:55 UTC
Published timing needs confirmation September 2025 most recent · 13 months ago
  1. Retired / removed15 Jun 2022 Now: Removed or unsupported
  2. EnforcedSeptember 2025 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
  1. 4 years agoRetired / removed
  2. 13 months agomonth windowupdate release · Patch Tuesday 9 Sep 2025Enforced · unconfirmed

Settings and overrides named on this page

Registry values, policies and cmdlets the source mentions, with the dated steps that name them. Read the source for the values to set.

  • Add-Capability
  • AES-SHA1
  • MS-BRWS
  • MS-MAIL
  • New-Object
  • Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console
  • Web-Lgcy-Scripting
  • Web-Metabase
  • Web-WMI

Requirements, exceptions and scope

  • Features no longer in developmentRequirementExceptionScopeRecommendation11 conditions46 passages
    MS-BRWSMS-MAILAdd-CapabilityAES-SHA1Web-MetabaseWeb-Lgcy-Mgmt-ConsoleWeb-Lgcy-ScriptingWeb-WMI
    We're no longer actively developing these features and might remove them from a future update. Some features were replaced with other features or functionality. Others…
  • Features removedRequirementExceptionRecommendation6 conditions8 passages
    Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-ConsoleNew-Object

Extracted automatically from Microsoft's wording. Confirm dates, conditions and whether they apply to you in the source before acting; a month or quarter is a window, not a day.

How this timeline changed

Changes between ChangeIntel's readings of the page, between commits of its source file where Microsoft publishes it, in Internet Archive copies of pages that keep no other history, and entries from Microsoft's own change log (dated as Microsoft dates them). Edits between readings that neither records are unknown.

  1. New dated step Internet Explorerin Windows Server 2025Microsoft's source, commit 6f7acd7
    June 15, 2022
  2. No longer on the page Internet Explorerin Windows Server 2025Microsoft's source, commit 0850495
    June 15, 2022
  3. New dated step Internet Explorerin Windows Server 2025Microsoft's source, commit 22de05d
    June 15, 2022
  7. Conditions changed Windows PowerShell 2.0in Windows Server 2025Microsoft's source, commit 99c0f74
    September 2025September 2025
  8. New dated step Windows PowerShell 2.0in Windows Server 2025Microsoft's source, commit 9c337c7
    September 2025
  9. No longer on the page Windows PowerShell 2.0in Windows Server 2025Microsoft's source, commit 9c337c7
  10. Requirement added SMB version 1in Windows Server 2019Microsoft's source, commit 137f0f8
7 earlier changes
  2. Conditions changed NTLMv1in Windows Server 2025Microsoft's source, commit 1a891da
Observed history and review priority

Captured 23 Oct 09:55 UTC; extracted 23 Oct 09:55 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/d9863eb412f92fa5ec3a8ca32e2dd7cfe8095530f456ecb1866608d1166a435d.

Review priority. Previously extracted guidance is missing from a later capture · Extracted assertions require review · Applicability or exceptions require review

0 date changes and 0 condition changes across 2 compared revisions. Suggested check interval: 6 hours.

Earlier unavailable versions and edits between checks are unknown. A missing statement requires review; it does not mean the policy was cancelled. Recovered historical statements are not original revision snapshots.

Retained observations · 22

Compact evidence remains available after full document bodies expire. Earlier extractions can have different vocabulary or capture limitations.

Microsoft's edits

History on GitHub

Commits to the page's source in MicrosoftDocs/windowsserverdocs, with Microsoft's own messages. Commit dates can be hours or days before Learn publishes the change. ChangeIntel keeps a copy of each diff, so an edit stays readable here if GitHub stops serving it. Read today 00:34 UTC.

  1. Merging changes synced from https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windowsserverdocs-pr (branch live) Served on LearnView diff
  2. Update WindowsServerDocs/get-started/removed-deprecated-features-windows-server.md View diff
  3. Updating removed-deprecated-features-windows-server.md View diff
  4. Fixed "depreciation" -> "deprecation" View diff
  5. Add build number to deprecation note to make it make sense in context View diff
  6. Fix pipe character in DISM command to be unescaped View diff
  7. Add Internet Explorer to Windows Server 2025 removed features with IE mode guidance View diff
  8. RC4 deprecation View diff
  9. Fix broken links View diff
  10. Updated PowerShell 2.0 wording View diff
  11. Updating Features Removed or No Longer Developed View diff
  12. updates View diff
  13. update View diff
  14. update View diff
  15. update View diff
  16. update View diff
  17. update View diff
  18. update View diff
2 metadata-only edits · author, dates or topic labels, no article text
  1. [Scoped] Updating msauthor values part 1 Metadata onlyView diff
  2. [Scoped] Bulk update author metadata Metadata onlyView diff

No related evidence found in this installation's recent collection. This does not establish that no announcement exists.

Retained observations

  • 23 Oct 09:55 UTC · shown above
  • 12 Oct 19:35 UTC

    1 removed passage (18 words). The changed wording mentions dates and deadlines. Review the source to confirm the effect.

  • 6 Oct 17:27 UTC

    Source metadata changed; retained article content is unchanged.

  • 5 Oct 17:20 UTC

    Baseline for retained history; no earlier retained text to compare.

What changed

First observed 18 Oct 2026

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