Important Dates for Security and Identity Products

Some security and identity products will leave Mainstream support soon, and customers should migrate to newer versions as soon as possible. Shown here are important upcoming support dates for recent versions of the Antigen and Forefront line of antimalware and identity products.

Microsoft itself has changed the published support dates for Antigen in the past and may do so again, likely to match the support dates for the protected products. For example, the Antigen 9.0 products for protecting Exchange and SharePoint will leave Mainstream support on the same date that Exchange Server 2003 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 leave Extended support.

Microsoft has changed the support policy for Forefront subscription products that protect clients and servers. Support is now provided for the duration of a customer’s agreement rather than having defined Mainstream support and Extended support dates. Hence, no dates are given here for those products.

Note that the name of Microsoft’s identity management application has changed with each recent version. Identity Integration Server 2003 was followed by Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007, which in turn was followed by Forefront Identity Manager 2010, the current version.