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
41 milestones- September 2026 · 11
- 30 Sep Azure API for FHIR Retirement
- 30 Sep Azure API for FHIR Gen 1 offering Retirement
- 30 Sep Azure Container Registry ACR 2017-03-01-(GA) API Retirement
- 30 Sep Azure FXT Edge Filer Retirement
- 30 Sep Azure Maps Web SDK v2 Subversion (v2.0~v2.0.32) and Service Module Retirement Retirement
- 30 Sep Azure Virtual Desktop (Classic) Retirement
- 30 Sep Container Log V1 Retirement
- 30 Sep Get AlertSummary API Retirement
- 30 Sep Service Bus Control plane APIS v2014-09; v2015-08; v2016-07 Retirement
- 30 Sep Single URL Ping Test in Application Insights Retirement
- 30 Sep Track 0 and 1 Service Bus SDKs and SBMP protocol Retirement
- October 2026 · 15
- 1 Oct Azure Anomaly Detector Retirement
- 1 Oct Azure Metrics Advisor Retirement
- 1 Oct Azure Personalizer Retirement
- 1 Oct Personalizer Retirement
- 1 Oct Translator Billing Model Retirement
- 13 Oct Access 2021 Retirement
- 13 Oct Excel 2021 Retirement
- 13 Oct Office 2021 Retirement
- 13 Oct OneNote 2021 Retirement
- 13 Oct Outlook 2021 Retirement
- 13 Oct PowerPoint 2021 Retirement
- 13 Oct Project 2021 Retirement
- 13 Oct Publisher 2021 Retirement
- 13 Oct Visio 2021 Retirement
- 13 Oct Word 2021 Retirement
- November 2026 · 1
- 10 Nov Azure Functions In-process model end of support Retirement
- January 2027 · 1
- 12 Jan HPC Pack 2016 Retirement
- March 2027 · 12
- 15 Mar Azure AI Content Moderator Retirement
- 15 Mar Windows Server 2022 on AKS Retirement
- 31 Mar Application Gateway WAF v2 Config Retirement
- 31 Mar Azure AI Content Moderator Retirement
- 31 Mar Azure Data Factory Memory Optimized Data Flows Retirement
- 31 Mar Azure Front Door (classic) SKU Retirement
- 31 Mar Azure text to speech long audio API Retirement
- 31 Mar Built-in Analytics: Azure API Management Retirement
- 31 Mar Standard_M192idms_v2 VMs Retirement
- 31 Mar Standard_M192ids_v2 VMs Retirement
- 31 Mar Standard_M192ims_v2 VMs Retirement
- 31 Mar Standard_M192is_v2 VMs Retirement
- September 2027 · 1
- 3 Sep Microsoft Teams Displays Retirement
Already passed this year
31- September 2026 · 13
- 21 Sep SMART on FHIR Proxy in Azure Health Data Services Retirement
- 19 Sep Azure Maps Web SDK Map Controls Version 1.xx Retirement
- 17 Sep Azure Maps Render V1 Retirement
- 15 Sep Activity logs legacy connector, storage integration API Retirement
- 15 Sep Azure Maps Gen1 Price Tier Retirement
- 14 Sep Azure Functions 1.0 Deprecation Retirement
- 14 Sep Azure Monitor Data Collector API Retirement
- 14 Sep Monitoring Support for AKS-Engine Retirement
- 13 Sep Computer Vision API v1.0 Retirement
- 13 Sep Computer Vision API v2.0 Retirement
- 13 Sep Computer Vision API v2.1 Retirement
- 13 Sep Computer Vision API v3.0 Retirement
- 13 Sep Computer Vision API v3.1 Retirement
- August 2026 · 2
- 31 Aug Azure AI Document Intelligence (formerly known as Azure Form Recognizer) v2.0 API Retirement
- 31 Aug Azure document Intelligence v2.1 Container Retirement
- April 2026 · 2
- 30 Apr Custom Commands Retirement
- 28 Apr Azure Application Gateway v1 Retirement
- March 2026 · 14
- 31 Mar API Keys for querying Application Insights Retirement
- 31 Mar Batch Region Retirement Retirement
- 31 Mar Classic alerts for Azure Backup Retirement
- 31 Mar Classic Compute Node Communication Model Retirement
- 31 Mar Deprecation of flash-extract custom fields Retirement
- 31 Mar Retire Require Approve Client App Conditional Access Grant Retirement
- 31 Mar VHD and Managed Images Retirement
- 31 Mar Windows Server 2019 on AKS hybrid Retirement
- 31 Mar Windows Server 2019 on AKS Retirement Retirement
- 29 Mar Classic VMware protection scenario using ASR Retirement
- 16 Mar AzureML Batch Endpoints API Preview retirement Retirement
- 15 Mar DMS (classic) – SQL Scenarios only retirement Retirement
- 15 Mar Feature deprecation: Trigger playbooks on alerts by analytics rule Retirement
- 13 Mar Speech to Text API v3.0 API Retirement Retirement
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