{"id":9374,"date":"2009-01-27T14:59:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9374"},"modified":"2009-01-27T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"when-does-windows-2000-server-extended-support-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9374","title":{"rendered":"When Does Windows 2000 Server Extended Support End?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw someone asking for help at removing <a href=\"http:\/\/joeelway.spaces.live.com\/blog\/cns!2095EAC3772C41DB!1789.entry\" target=\"_blank\">Conficker<\/a> from an NT4 server.\u00a0 Extended support for that ended back in 2004 or thereabouts &#8230; with a lot of notice.\u00a0 That means no patches, no support and no security fixes for that operating system.<\/p>\n<p>That made me think; When does extended support for W2K Server end?\u00a0 I looked it up and found the date for termination of extended support is <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/lifecycle\/?p1=7274\" target=\"_blank\">13\/July\/2010<\/a>.\u00a0 That means MS will fix security issues until then.\u00a0 Normal bug fixes ended back 2005 with the end of mainstream support.<\/p>\n<p>So if you have Windows 2000 Servers you should get planning.\u00a0 Talk to your application vendors and apply pressure for W2008 support.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll need new hardware or virtual machines because you cannot do an in-place upgrade.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t upgrade then you face the risk of not only MS not supporting you but others as well, e.g. anti-malware or backup software vendors.\u00a0 Imagine not having a security patch that every other OS has, not having protection of your system and\/or data and catching something like Conficker.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a pricey gamble if you ask me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw someone asking for help at removing Conficker from an NT4 server.\u00a0 Extended support for that ended back in 2004 or thereabouts &#8230; with a lot of notice.\u00a0 That means no patches, no support and no security fixes for that operating system. That made me think; When does extended support for W2K Server &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9374\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When Does Windows 2000 Server Extended Support End?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-server"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}