Microsoft has reminded admins that Trade Server 2013 is reaching its prolonged end-of-support (EOS) date in 60 days, on April 11, 2023.

At this time’s announcement follows two different reminders issued in January and June when the corporate warned clients to improve or migrate their Trade servers.

The primary model of Trade Server 2013 was launched in January 2013, and it reached its mainstream finish date 4 years in the past, in April 2018.

As soon as the prolonged EOS date is reached, Microsoft will cease offering technical assist and bug fixes for newly found points that might affect the servers’ stability or usability.

“Trade Server 2013 will proceed to run after this date, in fact; nevertheless, because of the dangers listed above, we strongly suggest that you just migrate from Trade Server 2013 as quickly as attainable,” the Trade Workforce mentioned.

“If you have not began your migration from Trade Server 2013 to Trade On-line or Trade Server 2019, get going now!”

Trade On-line or Server 2019 choices

Redmond advises admins to improve on-premises Trade 2013 servers to Trade 2019 to maintain receiving safety updates for brand spanking new safety flaws.

Trade 2013 servers will also be migrated to Miocrosoft’s hosted Trade On-line electronic mail and calendaring answer, obtainable as an Workplace 365 subscription or as a stand-alone service.

As soon as mailboxes, public folders, and different knowledge are migrated, admins can take away on-premises Trade servers and Energetic Listing.

“In case your group chooses emigrate mailboxes to Microsoft 365 however plans to maintain utilizing Azure AD Connect with handle consumer accounts in Energetic Listing, it is advisable hold at the very least one Microsoft Trade server on-premises,” Microsoft says.

“In the event you take away all Trade servers, you will not be capable of make adjustments to Trade recipients in Trade On-line as a result of the supply of authority is your on-premises Energetic Listing.”

Redmond supplies Microsoft 365 migration choices and strategies on its documentation web site and steering for international directors to assist resolve the migration path in Trade On-line.

Microsoft not too long ago urged clients to hold their on-premises Trade servers up-to-date to have them at all times prepared for emergency safety updates.

At this time, the corporate additionally launched the February 2023 Trade Server safety updates, saying, “though we’re not conscious of any lively exploits within the wild, our advice is to right away set up these updates to guard your setting.”