System Center Support Timeline

Organizations should be in the process of migrating from the 2012 and 2012 R2 versions of System Center, which leave support in July 2022. This illustration shows support milestones for the System Center suite of software.

System Center 2012 and 2012 R2 leave Extended support July 12, 2022. Organizations should plan on replacing those deployments with System Center 2019 or, for organizations planning to deploy Windows Server 2022 or Azure Stack HCI 21H2, System Center 2022. System Center 2022 became commercially available in Apr. 2022.

System Center versions offer five years of Mainstream support and five years of Extended support. New features and other servicing updates are periodically offered in the form of update rollups, which are not released on a set schedule.

From 2016 to Mar. 2019, System Center offered a Semi-Annual Channel (SAC) release model, which required Software Assurance and delivered versions with new features twice per year. The SAC release cadence for System Center was discontinued in Mar. 2019, and all previously released SAC versions have left support.