Lifecycle
End of support, end of servicing, retirements, and moves to extended support from Microsoft's public lifecycle pages for 2026 and 2027.
38End of support · next 12 months7End of servicing · next 12 months41Retirement · next 12 months13Moves to extended support · next 12 months
Coming up · next 12 months
38 milestones- October 2026 · 16
- 13 Oct Access LTSC 2021 End of support
- 13 Oct Excel LTSC 2021 End of support
- 13 Oct Office LTSC 2021 End of support
- 13 Oct Office LTSC 2021 for Mac End of support
- 13 Oct OneNote LTSC 2021 End of support
- 13 Oct Outlook LTSC 2021 End of support
- 13 Oct PowerPoint LTSC 2021 End of support
- 13 Oct Project 2021 (LTSC) End of support
- 13 Oct Publisher LTSC 2021 End of support
- 13 Oct Skype for Business LTSC 2021 End of support
- 13 Oct Visio LTSC 2021 End of support
- 13 Oct Windows 10 2016 LTSB End of support
- 13 Oct Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSB 2016 End of support
- 13 Oct Windows Server 2012 R2, Extended Security Update Year 3 End of support
- 13 Oct Windows Server 2012, Extended Security Update Year 3 End of support
- 13 Oct Word LTSC 2021 End of support
- January 2027 · 20
- 11 Jan BizTalk Server 2016 End of support
- 11 Jan Dynamics NAV 2017 End of support
- 11 Jan Microsoft Host Integration Server 2016 End of support
- 11 Jan System Center 2016 Data Protection End of support
- 11 Jan System Center 2016 Operations Manager End of support
- 11 Jan System Center 2016 Orchestrator End of support
- 11 Jan System Center 2016 Service Manager End of support
- 11 Jan System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager End of support
- 11 Jan Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2017 End of support
- 12 Jan HPC Pack 2016 End of support
- 12 Jan Hyper-V Server 2016 End of support
- 12 Jan Internet Information Services (IIS), IIS 10 on Windows Server 2016 End of support
- 12 Jan Microsoft .NET Framework, .NET Framework 4.6.2 End of support
- 12 Jan Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (LTSB - version 1606) End of support
- 12 Jan Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 End of support
- 12 Jan Windows Azure Pack (on Windows Server 2016) End of support
- 12 Jan Windows Defender for Windows Server 2016 End of support
- 12 Jan Windows Server 2016 End of support
- 12 Jan Windows Server Update Services for Windows Server 2016 End of support
- 12 Jan Windows Storage Server 2016 End of support
- April 2027 · 1
- 13 Apr Visual Studio 2017 End of support
- July 2027 · 1
- 12 Jul SQL Server 2014, Extended Security Updates Year 3 End of support
Already passed this year
25- July 2026 · 11
- 14 Jul Dynamics GP 2016 End of support
- 14 Jul Dynamics GP 2016 R2 End of support
- 14 Jul Infopath 2013 End of support
- 14 Jul Project Server 2016 End of support
- 14 Jul Project Server 2019 End of support
- 14 Jul SharePoint Designer 2013 End of support
- 14 Jul SharePoint Server 2016 End of support
- 14 Jul SharePoint Server 2019 End of support
- 14 Jul SQL Server 2014, Extended Security Updates Year 2 End of support
- 14 Jul SQL Server 2016 End of support
- 14 Jul Visual Studio 2022 , Version 17.12 (LTSC channel) End of support
- April 2026 · 10
- 14 Apr Dynamics C5 2016 End of support
- 14 Apr Dynamics NAV 2016 End of support
- 14 Apr Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management 4.0 End of support
- 14 Apr Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0 End of support
- 14 Apr Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.1 End of support
- 14 Apr Microsoft Application Virtualization Hosting 5.0 for Windows Desktops End of support
- 14 Apr Microsoft Application Virtualization Hosting 5.1 for Windows Desktops End of support
- 14 Apr Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring 2.5 End of support
- 14 Apr Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 10.0 End of support
- 14 Apr User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) 2.1 End of support
- March 2026 · 1
- 31 Mar Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse (Analytics Platform System) End of support
- January 2026 · 3
- 13 Jan Advanced Threat Analytics 1.X End of support
- 13 Jan Dynamics CRM 2016 (Dynamics 365) End of support
- 13 Jan Visual Studio 2022 , Version 17.10 (LTSC channel) End of support
Announced retirements and deprecations
18 from Azure Updates, the Windows message center, the roadmap, and Microsoft blogs- 1 Sep2026 Retirement: Nested confidential (cc_v5) VMs will be retired on September 1, 2026
- 14 Oct2026 Retirement Update: SAP container images removed October 14, 2026
- 10 Nov2026 Retirement: Support for PowerShell 7.4 ends on November 10, 2026
- 10 Nov2026 Retirement: Support for .NET 8 and .NET 9 ends on November 10, 2026—upgrade your apps to .NET 10
- 30 Apr2027 Retirement: Support for Node.js 22 ends on April 30, 2027
- 30 Apr2027 Retirement: Support for Node 22 LTS ends on April 30, 2027
- 30 Aug2027 Retirement: Azure VMware Solution License-included service will be retired August 30, 2027
- 30 Sep2028 Retirement: Azure Communication Services (ACS) standalone services will be retired on September 30, 2028
- No date Windows Deployment Services (WDS) deprecation in the next Windows Server release
- No date Introducing EWSAllowedAppIDs: Preparing for the Final Phase of EWS Retirement
- No date One month until Office LTSC 2021 end of support
- No date Retirement: Azure Linux with OS Guard in Azure Kubernetes Service
- No date Retiring NTLM: Frequently asked questions
- No date Prepare for the removal of WMIC from Windows 11
- No date Help us shape Exchange Server on-premises to different online org Free/Busy after EWS retirement
- No date Upcoming retirement of OWA Light in Exchange Server
- No date Retirement: Containerized data connector agent for the Microsoft Sentinel solution for SAP applications
- No date Plan for Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 end of support