Date:17/04/17

Exchange Server 2007 reaches End of Life

On April 11, 2017, Exchange Server 2007 reached End of Life. If you haven’t already begun your migration from Exchange 2007 to Office 365 or Exchange 2016, now’s the time to start your planning.
 
What does End of Life mean?
 
Exchange Server, like almost all Microsoft products, has a support lifecycle during which we provide new features, bug fixes, security fixes, and so on. This lifecycle typically lasts for 10 years from the date of the product’s initial release, and the end of this lifecycle is known as the product’s End of Life. When Exchange 2007 reaches its End of Life on April 11, 2017, Microsoft will no longer provide:
 
Technical support for problems that may occur;
 
Bug fixes for issues that are discovered and that may impact the stability and usability of the server;
 
Security fixes for vulnerabilities that are discovered and that may make the server vulnerable to security breaches;
 
Time zone updates.
 
Your installation of Exchange 2007 will continue to run after this date. However, because of the changes listed above, we strongly recommend that you migrate from Exchange 2007 as soon as possible.
 
What are my options?
 
With Exchange 2007 reaching its End of Life, this is a great time to explore your options and prepare a migration plan. You can:
 
Migrate to Office 365 using cutover, staged, or hybrid migration;
 
Migrate your Exchange 2007 servers to a newer version of Exchange on your on-premises servers.
 
The following sections explore each option in more detail.
 
Migrate to Office 365
 
Migrating your email to Office 365 is your best and simplest option to help you retire your Exchange 2007 deployment. With a migration to Office 365, you can make a single hop from 10-year-old technology to state of the art features, like:
 
Compliance capabilities such as Retention Policies, In-Place and Litigation Hold, in-place eDiscovery, and more;
 
Office 365 Groups;
 
Focused Inbox;
 
Delve Analytics;
 
REST APIs for programmatic access to email, calendars, contacts, and so on.
 
Office 365 also gets new features and experiences first and you and your users can usually start using them right away. In addition to new features, you won’t have to worry about:
 
Purchasing and maintaining hardware;
 
Paying for heating and cooling of your servers;
 
Keeping up to date on security, product, and time zone fixes;
 
Maintaining storage and software to support compliance requirements;
 
Upgrading to a new version of Exchange – you’re always on the latest version of Exchange in Office 365.
 
Migrate to a newer version of Exchange Server
 
While we strongly believe that you can achieve the best value and user experience by migrating to Office 365, we also understand that some organizations need to keep their email on-premises. This could be because of regulatory requirements, to guarantee data isn’t stored in a datacenter located in another country, and so on. If you choose to keep your email on-premises, you can migrate your Exchange 2007 environment to Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, or Exchange 2016.
 
We recommend that you migrate to Exchange 2016 if you can’t migrate to Office 365. Exchange 2016 includes all the features and advancements included with previous releases of Exchange, and it most closely matches the experience available with Office 365 (although some features are available only in Office 365).

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