Updated: July 14, 2020 (April 28, 2014)

Products Leaving Extended Support

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Several product versions covered in the Roadmap will be leaving Extended support in the next 24 months. After Extended support ends, Microsoft only offers fixes for security vulnerabilities to customers who have custom support contracts, which are expensive and not available in all circumstances. Consequently, organizations running products after Extended support face considerable risks or costs. For a complete list of enterprise software leaving Extended support in the next 24 months, see support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&alpha=&Filter=FilterES&esdate=24.

Date	Product Exiting Extended Support
2014
July 8	BizTalk Server 2004
Oct. 14	ISA Server 2004 Standard Edition
2015
Jan. 13	Host Integration Server 2004
	Operations Manager 2005
	Systems Management Server 2003/2003 R2
Apr. 14	ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition
Apr. 14	Live Communications Server 2005
July 14	Forefront Client

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