Ending Support in 2025

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The following list represents products retiring or reaching the end of support in 2025. Upon retirement or end of support, there will be no new security updates, non-security updates, free or paid assisted support options or online technical content updates. Go here to learn about Fixed and Modern Lifecycle policies and service packs.

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Product Retirements

The following products, governed by the Modern Policy, will retire in 2025.

Product	Retirement
Azure Basic Load Balancer Azure Unmanaged Disks	September 30, 2025
Windows 10 Enterprise and Education Windows 10 Home and Pro Windows 10 IoT Enterprise	October 14, 2025

Additional Azure Changes

Below is a list of additional Azure updates, including API, SDK and tools, and feature changes. Go here for more information: Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Azure Item	Retirement
On 1 October 2025, the Log Analytics alert API in Azure Monitor will be retired	January 10, 2025
Azure QnA Maker will be retired on 31 March 2025 Templates functionality preview version in Azure portal will be retired on 31 March 2025 Transition to using connection strings for data ingestion by 31 March 2025	March 31, 2025
Azure Monitor ITSM connector for creating ServiceNow events will be retired on 30 September 2025 Community support for Azure Functions Proxies will end on 30 September 2025 The application insights Java 2.X SDK will be retired on 30 September 2025 Upgrade to Standard SKU public IP addresses in Azure by 30 September 2025—Basic SKU will be retired	September 30, 2025
Migrate to conversational language understanding before Language Understanding (LUIS) is retired on 1 October 2025	October 1, 2025

End of Servicing

The following product versions, governed by the Modern Policy, will end support in 2025.

Product	End of Servicing
Windows 11 Enterprise and Education, Version 22H2 Windows 11 IoT Enterprise, Version 22H2	October 14, 2025

Products reaching End of Support

The following products and releases, governed by the Fixed Policy, will end support in 2025.

Product	End of Support
Dynamics C5 2015 Dynamics CRM 2015 Dynamics NAV 2015 Dynamics SL 2015	January 14, 2025
Dynamics GP 2015 Dynamics GP 2015 R2	April 8, 2025
Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Extended Security Update Year 3	July 8, 2025
Access 2016 Access 2019 Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises (Fixed Policy) Excel 2016 Excel 2019 Exchange Server 2016 Exchange Server 2019 Microsoft Office 2016 Microsoft Office 2019 Microsoft Report Viewer 2015 Runtime OneNote 2016 Outlook 2016 Outlook 2019 PowerPoint 2016 PowerPoint 2019 Project 2016 Project 2019 Publisher 2016 Publisher 2019 Skype for Business 2016 Skype for Business 2019 Skype for Business Server 2015 Skype for Business Server 2019 Visio 2016 Visio 2019 Visual Studio 2015 Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 Windows 10 2015 LTSB Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSB 2015 Windows 10 Team (Surface Hub) Windows Defender Exploit Guard Windows Defender for Windows 10 Windows Server 2012, Extended Security Update Year 2 Windows Server 2012 R2, Extended Security Update Year 2 Word 2016 Word 2019	October 14, 2025

Products moving to Extended Support

The following products will be moving from Mainstream to Extended Support in 2025. Extended Support includes security updates at no cost, and paid non-security updates and support. Additionally, Microsoft will not accept requests for design changes or new features during the Extended Support phase.

Product	End of Mainstream Support
SQL Server 2019	February 28, 2025
Azure DevOps Server 2020 Microsoft Robotics	October 14, 2025