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2007 Support Deadlines by Product
May 14, 2007

Many 2002 product versions are leaving Mainstream support in 2007. Shown below are products and service packs that will no longer be supported, or that are leaving the Mainstream support phase and entering Extended support. Customers who keep these products in operation after the end of Mainstream support will want a support contract, and possibly an Extended Hotfix Support Agreement that entitles them to request custom hotfixes.

Customers must be on a recent service pack to receive support for any product. Shown below are several initial product releases or service packs that must be upgraded to a more recent service pack to receive support.

For further information on Microsoft's product support life-cycle, see the Mar. 2007 Enterprise Software Roadmap or Microsoft's support life-cycle site, support.microsoft.com/lifecycle.

Product and
Version 		Support Change Current
Version 		Notes
BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet 1.0 Mainstream support ends Oct. 9 BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet 3.0  
BizTalk Server 2002 Mainstream support ends July 10 BizTalk Server 2006 Current version not backward-compatible
Great Plains, Small Business Financials 8.0 Support ends Oct. 9 Dynamics GP, Small Business Financials 9.0  
Mobile Information Server 2002 Mainstream support ends July 10 Product discontinued Some functions provided by Exchange Server 2003 and later
.NET Framework 1.0 Mainstream support ends July 10 .NET Framework 3.0  
Pocket PC 2000 Support ends Oct. 9 Windows Mobile 6 Most devices can't be upgraded
Project 2002 and Project Server 2002 Mainstream support ends Oct. 9 Project 2007 and Project Server 2007 Current versions will not run custom code built for 2002 versions
Services for UNIX 3.0 Mainstream support ends Oct. 9 Built into Windows Server 2003 R2 (with additional free components) Services for UNIX 3.5 still supported for Windows Server 2003 SP1
Software Update Services 1.0 Support ends July 10 Windows Server Update Services 3.0  
SQL Server 2000 SP3a Service pack unsupported after July 10 SP4  
SQL Server 2005 initial release (SP0) Initial release (designated SP0) unsupported after July 10 SP1 SP1 or higher required for Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn"
Systems Management Server 2003 SP1 Service pack unsupported after July 10 SP3  
Visual J# .NET Mainstream support ends Oct. 9 Visual J# 2.0 No future versions are planned
Visual Studio 2002 Mainstream support ends July 10 Visual Studio 2005  
Windows CE .NET 4.0 and eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0 Mainstream support ends July 10 Windows Embedded CE 6.0 and Visual Studio 2005 Most devices can't be upgraded
Windows CE 3.0 and Platform Builder 3.0, eMbedded Visual Tools 3.0 Support ends Oct. 9 Windows Embedded CE 6.0 and Visual Studio 2005 Most devices can't be upgraded