Microsoft's Wednesday announcement was just another of its many deadline reminders to Office 2016 and Office 2019 product users about Microsoft 365 services connections, which typically have been communicated in a misleading fashion. Other Nuances for Microsoft 365 Apps Migrations (The traditional 10 years of support is not the case for Office 2019 because Microsoft arbitrarily truncated its support by three years.)
Extended support is the latter half of a traditional 10-year Fixed Policy product support period when Microsoft stops issuing security patches for the product. That warning comes from Microsoft even though both Office 2016 and Office 2019 will reach their end of "extended support" phases on Oct. Microsoft clarified back in August that it won't block these Microsoft 365 connections, but customers could "run into unexpected issues" that Microsoft isn't obligated to fix. 10, 2023 deadline to switch from perpetual-license Office 2016 or Office 2019 products to subscription-based Microsoft 365 Apps if they want to be assured of Microsoft 365 connections. In essence, many organizations are currently facing an Oct. Microsoft 365 services support end dates for certain Office products (source: Microsoft document dated Feb. Microsoft offered a table showing the following Microsoft 365 services connection end dates per this document: Figure 1.
The change may or may not affect users of Office 2016, Office 2019 and Office LTSC (long-term servicing channel) 2021. This servicing milestone involves a Microsoft-projected uncertainty regarding connecting to Microsoft 365 services for certain Office products. Microsoft gave notice to organizations using perpetual-license Office versions about a coming 2023 milestone that could result in iffy Microsoft 365 services connections in this Wednesday announcement.
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