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
13 milestones- October 2026 · 5
- 13 Oct Office LTSC 2021 for Mac Moves to extended support
- 13 Oct Windows Server 2022 Moves to extended support
- 13 Oct Windows Server 2022 Datacenter: Azure Edition Moves to extended support
- 13 Oct Windows Server 2022 Standard (MSL) Moves to extended support
- 13 Oct Windows Server IoT 2022 Moves to extended support
- January 2027 · 3
- 12 Jan Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement Apps, version 9.x (on-premises update) Moves to extended support
- 12 Jan Visual Studio 2022 Moves to extended support
- 12 Jan Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 Moves to extended support
- April 2027 · 5
- 13 Apr System Center 2022 Data Protection Manager Moves to extended support
- 13 Apr System Center 2022 Operations Manager Moves to extended support
- 13 Apr System Center 2022 Orchestrator Moves to extended support
- 13 Apr System Center 2022 Service Manager Moves to extended support
- 13 Apr System Center 2022 Virtual Machine Manager Moves to extended support
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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