End of Extended Support – Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 products are approaching extended support end of life on the 14th of Jan 2010.

Best to start planning moving off Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 this year.

I know i have a tonne of Windows Server 2008 R2 servers in the environment that i need to migrate to Windows Server 2012 R2 or even Windows Server 2016.
For example, SharePoint 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2 so will be migrating to a SharePoint 2016 Farm on Windows Server 2012 R2.

The below excerpt is from Microsoft’s site – End of Support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2

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The following Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 products are approaching End of Support:

Product	End of Extended Support
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter	1/14/2020
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V	1/14/2020
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise	1/14/2020
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V	1/14/2020
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems	1/14/2020
Windows Server 2008 Foundation	1/14/2020
Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter	1/14/2020
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise	1/14/2020
Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-Based Systems	1/14/2020
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard	1/14/2020
Windows Server 2008 Standard	1/14/2020
Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V	1/14/2020

SharePoint Server Showing Upgrade Required

Issue:

One of the Sharepoint App Servers is showing Upgrade Required within the Farm Information on the Central Admin site.
I had run the Upgrade command successfully, and checked within Central Administration and it was still showing Upgrade Required.
Re-ran the Upgrade just incase and same result.

Solution:

A nifty Sharepoint trick so that Sharepoint will go and do a fresh update and check of the binaries.

Get-SPProduct –Local

To check the Farm Version, run the below:

$farm = Get-SPFarm
$farm.BuildVersion