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Why does Server 2003 End of Life matter to you?
In July 2010, Microsoft transitioned from providing mainstream support for Windows Server 2003 to releasing critical patches only. July 14, 2015 marks another transition, this time the end of Microsoft support for Windows Server 2003/R2 including critical patches. While this date may seem distant it is important to know how this transition will effect your business and what steps you can take to avoid issues.
Here is some of what end of support means for your business:
No updates
No compliance
No safe haven
Now is the time to act
Windows Server 2003 End of Life Webinar - 11/11/14
1. Windows Server
2003 Migration
Opportunity for transformation
Scott Curtis
11/11/2014
2. 2
End of support for Windows Server
2003/R2
245 Days Remaining
Optimistic Estimates
Server migration: 200 days
Application migration: 300+ days
11/10/2014
3. What end of support means
Now
is the time to act
No
compliance
No
updates
Start planning your migration and transforming your datacenter toDdaisycontinued
support for many
applications
Increased
operations costs
Impact on
Microsoft Small
Business Server
2003
Impact on both
physical and
virtualized
servers
No
safe haven
Windows 2003/R2 servers will not
pass a compliance audit
37 critical updates released
in 2013 for Windows Server
2003/R2
4. Datacenters are being transformed
70%
of CIOs will embrace
a “cloud first" strategy
in 2016
-IDC
45%
of total IT services will
be spent on cloud
services by 2020
-Forrester
71%
of companies see
rising demand for IT
projects in 2013
-InformationWeek
Sources: “Outlook 2013,” InformationWeek Report, 12/06/2012; “Worldwide CIO Agenda 2013 Top
10 Predictions,” IDC, doc #238464, December 2012; “Prepare For 2020: Transform Your IT
Infrastructure And Operations Practice,” Forrester Research, Inc., October 24, 2012;
7. Discover & Assess your inventory
By type
Microsoft
server roles
By criticality
Microsoft
applications
Custom Third-party applications
applications
Mission critical Important Marginal Can be retired
By complexity and risk
Low Medium High
1. Discover 2. Assess 3. Target 4. Migrate
8. Assess your inventory
1. Discover 2. Assess 3. Target 4. Migrate
ID Application Owner
Discover Assess
Server role
Microsoft app
Third-party app
Custom app
Retire
Marginal
Important
Critical
Complexity (1–3)
Risk (1–3)
00001 Exchange
Denise
Smith
X X 1 1
00002 Web Server Qiong Wu X X 2 2
00003 Shipping Services Naoki Sato X X 2 1
00004 Quick Quarter Close Daniel Roth X X 2 2
00005
Lucerne Publishing Document
Converter
Andrea
Dunker
X X 3 2
00006 Trey Research Lookup Tool Eric Gruber X X 2 3
00007 A. Datum Index Oliver Kiel X X 3 3
00008 Inventory Key
Robin
Counts
X X 2 2
9. Target your destination
Windows Server
Evaluate options for each
application and workload
2012 R2 Cloud
1. Discover 2. Assess 3. Target 4. Migrate
13. Hybrid Cloud
For your hybrid datacenter solution
Access your data and apps anywhere
Hardware as a service
Priced per user
Flexibility
1. Discover 2. Assess 3. Target 4. Migrate
15. Migrating applications
+1
Application must be
upgraded to latest
version
Use technology to
counter
incompatibilities
Modify application
to work on new
platform
Use different app or
SaaS offering to
achieve same
business result
Application can be
migrated without
change
1. Discover 2. Assess 3. Target 4. Migrate
17. Target your destination
Choose your journey
ID Application Owner
1. Discover 2. Assess 3. Target 4. Migrate
Discover Assess Target (destination and journey)
Server role
Microsoft app
Third-party app
Custom app
Retire
Marginal
Important
Critical
Complexity (1–3)
Risk (1–3)
Windows Server
2012
Microsoft Azure
Hosted Exchange
Migrate as is
Upgrade version
Switch app vendor
Virtualize or shim
app
Repair, rewrite, or
refactor
00001 Exchange
Denise
Smith
X X 1 1 X X X X
00002 Web Server Qiong Wu X X 2 2 X X X X X
00003 Shipping Services Naoki Sato X X 2 1 X X X
00004 Quick Quarter Close Daniel Roth X X 2 2 X X X
00005
Lucerne Publishing Document
Converter
Andrea
Dunker
X X 3 2 X X X
00006 Trey Research Lookup Tool Eric Gruber X X 2 3 X X
00007 A. Datum Index Oliver Kiel X X 3 3
00008 Inventory Key
Robin
Counts
X X 2 2 X X X
19. Next steps
Explore resources
mapletronics.com/server2003eol-resources
Experience innovations
Take advantage of innovations in
Windows Server, new hardware, cloud
operating system, and application
platform
Get started today
A smooth, successful server migration
takes time to plan and execute, so start
today to make sure you meet the
deadline
Editor's Notes
Mainstream support from Microsoft for Windows Server 2003 ended in July 2010. Windows Server 2003/R2 has been on Extended Support since then, which means only security updates are released.
July 14, 2015 is the End of Support for Windows Server 2003/R2.
End of support means:
No updates
37 critical updates were released in 2013 for Windows Server 2003/R2 under Extended Support. No updates will be developed or released after end of support.
No compliance
Lack of compliance with various standards and regulations can be devastating. This may include various regulatory and industry standards for which compliance can no longer be achieved. For example, lack of compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards might mean companies such as Visa and MasterCard will no longer do business with you. Or, the new cost of doing business will include paying catastrophic penalties and astronomically high transaction fees.
No safe haven
Both virtualized and physical instances of Windows Server 2003 are vulnerable and would not pass a compliance audit. Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 servers are also affected.
Staying put will cost more in the end. Maintenance costs for aging hardware will also increase. Added costs will be incurred for intrusion detection systems, more advanced firewalls, network segmentation, and so on—simply to isolate Windows Server 2003 servers.
Many applications will also cease to be supported, once the operating system they are running on is unsupported. This includes all Microsoft applications.
Now is the time to act
You must start planning migration now.
Servers may still be running Windows Server 2003/R2 for a number of reasons. You can use these reasons as a discussion point:
Perceived challenges of upgrading applications
Presence of custom and legacy applications
Budget and resource constraints
Additional information: “Making the case for upgrading from Server 2003” (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/23/windows_server_2003_reasons_to_upgrade_analysis/)
Windows Server 2003 provided IT with an amazing operating system for the past 10 years, but IT has changed a lot since then. The industry is moving forward and so has the operating system. It’s important to understand why your peers are making the transformation.
Let’s talk about the advantages and pitfalls of The Cloud…
Cloud Advantages:
Low capital expense
Improved accessibility (any time, anywhere access)
Easier upgrades
Less onsite IT support needed
Potential Pitfalls:
Totally dependent on internet connection
You have no control over uptime/downtime
Who owns your data?
Changing to another provider can be painful
Still need onsite server for file storage/user management (active directory)
The migration process will follow four key steps. We will cover them briefly here.
Once you have a catalog, you will need to assess what is in that catalog. This means categorizing your applications and workloads in several ways and doing a thorough analysis of what is there.
We suggest you consider categorizing your applications and workloads in four ways:
By type: Microsoft Server Roles, Microsoft Applications, Custom Applications, and Third-party Applications
By criticality: Can Be Retired, Marginal, Important, and Mission Critical
By complexity: Low, Medium, and High
By risk: Low, Medium, and High
With this categorization complete, you can begin to understand the scope of the problem and can prioritize your workloads and applications. The categorization will also reveal some potential opportunities, as well as potential issues.
The criticality category, for example, might raise concerns about what to migrate when and in what order. The complexity and cost categories will indicate which migrations might be the easiest and quickest to accomplish. A cross-category analysis provides even more insight. For example, an important application with low complexity and only medium risk might be a good candidate for early migration.
At this point, the process may have provided additional information that looks something like this.
You must choose a migration destination for each application and workload.
There are four destinations for migration:
Windows Server 2012 R2
Applications to The Cloud
Email to Hosted Exchange or other email service
Cloud Cache for collaboration/file sharing
Different workloads and applications will logically lead to certain targets. Others could offer the possibility of migration to one or more of these destinations. The choice will be driven by factors such as speed and ease of migration, cost, and desired functionality in the migrated solution.
There are five key server roles to consider for migration from Windows Server 2003/R2:
File Server
Web Server
Active Directory
Domain Controller
Terminal Services
Server roles are the some of the easiest (File Server) and potentially some of the hardest (Active Directory) migration scenarios. Only a thorough analysis of what exists today and what the desired end state is will show exactly what effort is needed to migrate these roles off Windows Server 2003/R2.
For an interesting perspective, see http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/42070a54-a907-4526-b35c-6d6837f37a4e/migration-plan-for-windows-server-2003-to-windows-server-2012
Windows Server has seen many advancements in the past 10 years, and today the current version is Windows Server 2012 R2.
Enterprise-class scale and performance
Windows Server 2003 R2
Scales to 64 logical processors and 1 terabyte of memory (x64 versions)
Windows Server 2012 R2
Scales to 320 logical processors and 4 terabytes of physical memory (x64 versions)
Scales to 64 logical processors and 1 terabyte of memory on a virtual machine
Supports up to 64 nodes and 8,000 virtual machines in a cluster
Vmware Virtualization
Ability to combine several servers into a single server chassis and allocate resources to each server.
Servers run as independent virtual machines with separated roles.
Lower cost of ownership
Low-cost, highly available file-based storage
Windows Server 2003 R2
Not available
Windows Server 2012 R2
Offers new SMB 3.0 protocol enhancements and low-cost, “commodity” hardware with new File Services for storing server application data such as SQL databases and VHDs for Hyper-V on file shares
Automatically rebalances Scale-Out File Server clients
Tracks SMB client connections per file share, and then redirect clients to the cluster node with the best access to the volume used by the file share
Enables leveraging of commodity storage into virtual storage pools, which can then be provisioned as Storage Spaces
Provides virtualized drives that can be formatted and accessed just like a physical drive, which can also be dynamically resized with the addition of more physical drives to the storage pool
Includes storage tiers, write-back cache, parity space support for failover clusters, dual parity, and the ability to automatically rebuild storage spaces from storage pool free space
Work Folders:
Work Folders add to the functionality provided by Workplace Join and allow users to sync files on a Windows Server 2012 R2 file server with folders on their own device, and provide administrators with the ability to centrally manage the files and folders.
Essential for mobile users and BYOD.
Hybrid applications
Windows Server 2003 R2
Requires virtual private networks (VPNs) or other form of point-to-point connectivity for communication among geographically separated parts of an application
Windows Server 2012 R2
Protects existing investments in on-premises applications
Unifies application management
Provides flexibility to build and deploy hybrid applications on-premises and in the cloud
Provides a common development environment for .NET developers to build cloud (Azure) and on-premises applications
Windows PowerShell 4.0
Windows Server 2003 R2
Provides more than 100 cmdlets
Windows Server 2012 R2
Provides more than 3,000 cmdlets in over 100 modules and includes several significant features that enable easier and more comprehensive control and management of Windows-based environments
Enables the deployment and management of configuration data for software services and the environment in which these services run through Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Links on Windows Server 2012 R2 Editions Comparison:
http://www.infralib.com/2014/02/windows-server-2012-r2-products-editions-comparison/
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38809
http://windowsserver2012.itpro.co.uk/business-benefits/72/which-version-windows-server-2012-should-i-choose
Sales hat:
MT owned and maintained equipment
TorQ 41 Data Protection with failover
Access from anywhere/any device
Grows with your company
Pricing per user
Low capital expense
Hosted Exchange:
Fully featured email
Share calendars/contacts/tasks
Any device access (Standard & above)
Email protection & continuity
Disaster recovery
Outlook Web Access
Cloud Cache:
Instant collaboration
Easy access to shared files
Secure sharing with third parties
Simple setup and administration
The three key Microsoft applications and technologies likely to be considered for migration are covered in this section. We will look at options and considerations for each.
Your plan might look something like this now.
And now it’s time to make some decisions and get moving.
Now is the time to migrate.
These resources can help you get started:
Migration website
Windows Server 2012 R2