Based on user feedback, Microsoft has fundamentally rethought its position and plans to implement support for Microsoft 365 Apps on Windows Server 2022.

M365 app support coming for Server 2022Īs of September 6, 2022, Elden Christensen, Principal Group PM Manager on the Windows Server Development Team, has updated the above statements from Microsoft.

The whole thing didn't go over too well with affected customers, as this conflicts with the workflow in various companies.

or hosting M365 apps on a supported client VM.

After 2025, customers should consider the following solutions: Microsoft 365 app would not be supported on Windows Server 2022, and there are no plans to change these published support positions. Mary Hoffman from Microsoft confirmed to the thread creator, citing above matrix, that Microsoft 365 apps will only be supported on Windows Server 20 until October 2025. So the affected person would have to switch to Windows Server 2019 to continue using these Microsoft 365 apps. The Windows/Office configuration support matrix indicates that Windows Server 2022 does not support Microsoft 365 apps. He made it 'incendiary' in his post, wasn't the end of support for Windows Server 2016 January 2022 (that's not so true, that's when active support ended, Extended Support still runs until January 12, 2027). The poster has a large number of Windows Server 2016 instances running Microsoft 365 apps (Office 365) and wrote in early December 2021 that he needs to update those servers. But in Microsoft's tech community, there is a user post Support for M365 Apps (O365) on Windows 2022 that addresses the lack of support. I myself do not follow the topic in detail, since I have nothing to do with server operating systems. I had pointed out Microsoft's position about MS365 support for Windows Server 2022 in October 2021 in the post Windows Server 2022: Microsoft 365 Apps unsupported. Support for Microsoft 365 apps in Server 2022

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