Your VM or VMSS deployments are running on images that have been deprecated. I have some consider!!!

Question

We received this email last week, I can see I have many VMs using this  image. I understand the VM still working normally and can't use this image. But I have some questions as below:

1. "but there won’t be any support for these images"-> What kind of Azure support will we not receive? I use PAYG images
2. Is there any way to keep the support from Azure or SUSE?
3. If I have a plan for an upgrade from 15sp2 to 15sp3 or 15sp4 (or a major release upgrade in the future), the instance must fully up-to-date with the latest updates and load repository from SMT of Azure for upgrade. Can I still upgrade them, when image deprecated ?

Thanks for all the information and contributions!!

Answer 1

If you have a list of VMs or you can get a list of possible vms then you might step through that list and search within the ImageReference (in a PowerShell)

"Quick & Dirty"

(get-azvm -name *VMName*).StorageProfile.ImageReference   
  
## or even parts of machine-name are possible  
(get-azvm -name *MNam*).StorageProfile.ImageReference   

results in:

 Publisher               : MicrosoftWindowsServer  
 Offer                   : WindowsServer  
 Sku                     : 2019-Datacenter  
 Version                 : latest  
 ExactVersion            : 17763.1282.2006061952  
 SharedGalleryImageId    :   
 CommunityGalleryImageId :   
 Id                      :