{"id":245465,"date":"2026-10-16T01:31:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/microsoft-windows-server-2022-reached-end-of-mainstream-support"},"modified":"2026-10-16T01:31:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:31:38","slug":"microsoft-windows-server-2022-reached-end-of-mainstream-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/microsoft-windows-server-2022-reached-end-of-mainstream-support","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft: Windows Server 2022 reached end of mainstream support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-windows-server-2022-reached-end-of-mainstream-support.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2022 has reached the end of mainstream support and will remain in extended support until October 2031.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft unveiled Windows Server 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/microsoft-announces-windows-server-2022-with-new-security-features\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in March 2021<\/a> and made it generally available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/microsoft-windows-server-2022-is-now-generally-available\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in September 2021<\/a> as a Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) release with 10 years of support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of October 13, 2026, Windows Server 2022 has reached end of mainstream support and transitioned to extended support. The October 2026 security update is the last mainstream support update available for this version,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2022 has reached the end of mainstream support and will remain in extended support until October 2031. Microsoft unveiled Windows Server 2022 in March 2021 and made it generally available in September 2021 as a Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) release with 10 years of support. \u201cAs of October 13, 2026, [\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-245465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245465","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=245465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}