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Bye Bye Windows Server 2008R2 It was a good time – Get Extended Support and think about a change

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Today Windows Server 2008 (R2) / Windows 7 reaches her End of Live (14.01.20) date and doesn`t receive Security updates anymore.

I think it was a great time with Windows Server 2008. WS2008 launched Hyper-V, one of the most powerful hypervisor on the market and the foundation of today’s Azure infrastructure. With WS2008, the first version of the Server Manager, the pre-release version of Windows Admin Center, was released.

In this article, I will list some of your options to get extended support for available Windows Server 2008 (R2) – but I prefer to discuss new solutions to replace the outdated infrastructure. Use this date to consider a change to move your infrastructure to the same flexible and scalable environment you had when Windows Server 2008 was introduced.

I know the time is to short to demote the existing Windows Server 2008 R2 and migrate the workloads to a newer operating system. But now it’s time to modernize your landscape. See which solutions Microsoft offer to extend the time or to renew the infrastructure.

Migrate to Azure / Azure Stack

Azure Migrate was a service that had a lots of new features since summer to analyse and migrate your existing workloads to Azure.

Azure Migrate is an Assessment Tool for VMware, Hyper-V and, really new, for On-Prem Server to analyse the workloads and get comparable Azure VMs on Azure.

But the service is a source for Migration projects in Azure. Under Azure Migrate there are a lots of partners available to shift the workloads to Azure. It’s also integrates a tool for testing and migrating.

With Azure Migrate, existing Windows Server 2008 (R2) can be migrated to Azure and receive additional security updates for 3 years for free.

The same is also possible when the existing VMs will placed on an Azure Stack appliance. But this needs additional ressources and a higher investment.

Buy Extended Security Updates (ESU)

To running the existing environment without any change, there is a option to buy Security updates for additional three years. To use this option the existing License key