New Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Project Server versions inbound, but only available on subscription
(2020/09/24)
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/09/24/exchange_2022/
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Ignite Microsoft revealed plans at its [1]virtual Ignite bash to roll out new versions of its venerable Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, and Project Server, as well as another perpetual release of its cash cow, Office.
While the Windows-maker may ostensibly be all about the cloud these days, there remain pesky customers reluctant to give up their on-premises investments for the promise of Azure's elasticity, scalability, and occasional tendency to [2]fall over unexpectedly.
For those people there are the server products, including Skype for Business, which continues to cling on despite the onslaught of [3]Teams .
There is, however, a catch. Due to become available in the second half of 2021, the new server versions will only be available as part of a subscription. Office will still retain a perpetual licence for customers that are not sold on the vision of Microsoft 365.
Microsoft also urged customers still running Exchange Server 2013 or 2016 to start planning a jump to Exchange Server 2019, despite the former enjoying extended support to [4]2023 and the latter to [5]2025 .
In-place upgrades from Exchange Server 2019 will be the order of the day for the new version for around two years following release.
Side-by-side deployment also continues to be supported, although the in-place approach means that "once the next version of Exchange is released, they [customers] will then be able to perform an in-place upgrade to that version, making the move to 2019 the last major upgrade they will ever need to do," according to Microsoft.
Yikes. Not at all ominous. Please sign here on the dotted line for your Exchange Server subscription.
The company has yet to share the names it will be slapping on these products ("2022" anyone?), nor the pricing customers should expect to pay.
The advent of a refreshed Exchange Server follows remarks made to The Register by Rohan Kumar, corporate vice president of Azure Data, that its stablemate, SQL Server, will also see at least one more major on-premises update. "Not just to support customers," he told us [6]back in May , "but to prepare them for the transition to the cloud."
The requirement for a subscription licence for Exchange Server and its ilk, as well as those looming in-place upgrades, will equally "prepare" administrators for their own possible "transition" to a Microsoft 365 world in the coming years. ®
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[1] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/exchange-news-and-announcements-microsoft-ignite-2020-edition/ba-p/1662224
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2020/03/24/azure_seems_to_be_full/
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/22/ignite_teams/
[4] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/lifecycle/products/exchange-server-2013
[5] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/lifecycle/products/exchange-server-2016
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/21/sql_edge_azure_synapse/
[7] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
While the Windows-maker may ostensibly be all about the cloud these days, there remain pesky customers reluctant to give up their on-premises investments for the promise of Azure's elasticity, scalability, and occasional tendency to [2]fall over unexpectedly.
For those people there are the server products, including Skype for Business, which continues to cling on despite the onslaught of [3]Teams .
There is, however, a catch. Due to become available in the second half of 2021, the new server versions will only be available as part of a subscription. Office will still retain a perpetual licence for customers that are not sold on the vision of Microsoft 365.
Microsoft also urged customers still running Exchange Server 2013 or 2016 to start planning a jump to Exchange Server 2019, despite the former enjoying extended support to [4]2023 and the latter to [5]2025 .
In-place upgrades from Exchange Server 2019 will be the order of the day for the new version for around two years following release.
Side-by-side deployment also continues to be supported, although the in-place approach means that "once the next version of Exchange is released, they [customers] will then be able to perform an in-place upgrade to that version, making the move to 2019 the last major upgrade they will ever need to do," according to Microsoft.
Yikes. Not at all ominous. Please sign here on the dotted line for your Exchange Server subscription.
The company has yet to share the names it will be slapping on these products ("2022" anyone?), nor the pricing customers should expect to pay.
The advent of a refreshed Exchange Server follows remarks made to The Register by Rohan Kumar, corporate vice president of Azure Data, that its stablemate, SQL Server, will also see at least one more major on-premises update. "Not just to support customers," he told us [6]back in May , "but to prepare them for the transition to the cloud."
The requirement for a subscription licence for Exchange Server and its ilk, as well as those looming in-place upgrades, will equally "prepare" administrators for their own possible "transition" to a Microsoft 365 world in the coming years. ®
Get our [7]Tech Resources
[1] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/exchange-news-and-announcements-microsoft-ignite-2020-edition/ba-p/1662224
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2020/03/24/azure_seems_to_be_full/
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/22/ignite_teams/
[4] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/lifecycle/products/exchange-server-2013
[5] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/lifecycle/products/exchange-server-2016
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/21/sql_edge_azure_synapse/
[7] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
jake
From what I've seen, more companies are contemplating LibreOffice than are contemplating Lotus Domino. In fact I haven't heard of any company even contemplating new installations of Lotus anything since roughly the turn of the century. I don't expect this to change any time soon.
This really does open up the market for on-premises solutions.
It is quite interesting to scan through old abandonware sites (i.e like winworld) and see how many of these solutions would have been in a great position now to serve customers requiring freedom from the "cloud". (If they hadn't been killed off by competition from Microsoft ~10-20 years ago.)
At this point, some companies might even be considering (HCL) Lotus Domino as a solution again XD