{"id":239973,"date":"2026-06-30T07:14:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/microsoft-extends-windows-server-2022-hotpatching-until-october-2027"},"modified":"2026-06-30T07:14:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:14:55","slug":"microsoft-extends-windows-server-2022-hotpatching-until-october-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/microsoft-extends-windows-server-2022-hotpatching-until-october-2027","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft extends Windows Server 2022 hotpatching until October 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-extends-windows-server-2022-hotpatching-until-october-2027.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has extended Windows Server 2022 hotpatching until October 2027, one year after the <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/lifecycle\/products\/windows-server-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mainstream end date<\/a> of October 2026.<\/p>\n<p>This comes with the following caveat: extended support is only available for systems running Windows Server 2022 Datacenter: Azure Edition that are enrolled in hotpatch updates. This change is effective immediately, and the existing hotpatch cadence will remain unchanged through October 2027.<\/p>\n<p>On systems where <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/deployment\/windows-autopatch\/manage\/windows-autopatch-hotpatch-updates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hotpatching<\/a> is enabled, Windows deploys security updates by patching the in-memory code of running processes without restarting them after each installation or rebooting the device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has extended Windows Server 2022 hotpatching until October 2027, one year after the mainstream end date of October 2026. This comes with the following caveat: extended support is only available for systems running Windows Server 2022 Datacenter: Azure Edition that are enrolled in hotpatch updates. This change is effective immediately, and the existing hotpatch [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}