There are over eight million active servers running Server 2003 according to the stats The Register has seen and who knows how many Server 2000 installs still kicking around but as of the 14th of July extended support for Server 2003 ends and no longer will security patches or support be available. The difficulty of prying WinXP out of users hands will be nothing compared to convincing stakeholders to part with money to upgrade to a new version of Server, be it hosted onsite or via Azure and O365. There will be some companies wise enough to find leverage to start the migration soon but there will also be many who will not see the cost benefit until their system fails or even worse, a breach occurs. If you have any knowledge of newer versions of ActiveDirectory, Exchange or Azure and O365 you should update your resume as there will be people looking for help migrating in the near future.
"A channel-wide migration skills shortage is a real danger this summer as stragglers strain available resources by making an eleventh hour dash to flee Windows Server 2003, distributor veterans are warning."
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“A channel-wide migration
“A channel-wide migration skills shortage is a real danger this summer as stragglers strain available resources by making an eleventh hour dash to flee Windows Server 2003, distributor veterans are warning.”
It’s time to lock that Server 2003 Image in a VM, and restrict its direct access to any mission critical databases/services, just let it think it has control, when it fact that has all been abstracted away, under Zen, other software, or slap it in a container, and bolt the lid, so to speak. All while migrating the software over to something Linux based. Yes let that M$ foistware think its got a machine/world all to itself, but underneath its Linux all the way down to the core. Server 2003 running happily and safely via proxies/whatever, what it does not know can never hurt the real system, until the day that “pristine” server OS image is never fired up again, lots of OS/software is run well past its EOL, allowing enterprises to migrate at their own pace, and within their own budgets.
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