Updated: July 14, 2020 (January 27, 2014)

Products Leaving Extended Support in 2014 and 2015

Wes Miller analyzes and writes about Microsoft’s security, identity management, and systems management technologies. Before joining Directions on Microsoft, Wes... more

When products exit Extended support, paid custom support contracts (if offered) are the only option from Microsoft, and updates to the product, including security updates, should not be expected outside of the terms defined within paid custom support contracts.

2014
Date	Product Exiting Extended Support
Jan. 14	Live Communications Server 2003
Apr. 8	Windows XP⁽¹⁾
	Office 2003 and Related Desktop Applications (FrontPage, Outlook, Project, Visio)
	Exchange Server 2003
	Project Server 2003
	SharePoint Server 2003
July 8	BizTalk Server 2004
Oct. 14	ISA Server 2004 Standard Edition
2015
Date	Product Exiting Extended Support
Jan. 13	Host Integration Server 2004
	Operations Manager 2005
	Systems Management Server 2003/2003 R2
Apr. 14	Live Communications Server 2005
Apr. 14	ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition
July 14⁽²⁾	Windows Server 2003/2003 R2
Dec. 31	Forefront Protection
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