- The End of Support date for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 is July 9, 2019.
- The End of Support date for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 is January 14, 2020.
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- Extended support for SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 ends July 9, 2019; Extended support for Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 ends January 14, 2020; Impact of EOS. EOS means the end of security updates, which can cause security and compliance issues along with the potential for business interruptions.
- Extended Security Updates plans only apply to SQL Server 2008/R2 and Windows Server 2008/R2 products. They don't apply to the older server products. Organizations can use Extended Security Updates.
- Microsoft Lifecycle Policy offers 10 years of support (5 years for Mainstream Support and 5 years for Extended Support) for Business and Developer products (such as SQL Server and Windows Server). As per the policy, after the end of the Extended Support period there will be no patches or security updates, which may cause security and compliance issues, and expose customers’ applications and business to serious security risks.
- We recommend upgrading to the latest versions of our software to continue to get regular security updates, either in Azure or on-premises. However, for customers that are not able to transition before the End of Support date, we have options to help protect data and applications during the End of Support transition:
- Extended Security Updates in Azure: Customers who migrate workloads to Azure Virtual Machines (IaaS) will have access to Extended Security Updates for both SQL Server and Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 for three years after the End of Support dates for no additional charges above the cost of running the virtual machine. For many customers, this is an easy first step before upgrading or modernizing with newer versions or services in Azure. Those that decide to move to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance (PaaS) will also have access to continuous security updates, as this is a fully managed solution. Customers do not need Software Assurance to receive Extended Security Updates in Azure.
- Eligible customers can use the Azure Hybrid Benefit (available to customers with active Software Assurance or Server Subscriptions) to obtain discounts on the license of Azure Virtual Machines (IaaS) or Azure SQL Database Managed Instance (PaaS). These customers will also have access to Extended Security Updates for no additional charges above the cost of running the virtual machine.
- Extended Security Updates for on-premises or hosted environments: Extended Security Updates will also be available for workloads running on-premises or in a hosting environment like another cloud provider. Customers running SQL Server or Windows Server under licenses with active Software Assurance under an Enterprise Agreement (EA), Enterprise Subscription Agreement (EAS), a Server & Cloud Enrollment (SCE), an Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES), or Subscription can purchase Extended Security Updates annually for three years after End of Support date.
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- Alternatively, if customers already have active Software Assurance through Open, Select, or MPSA, programs, they can purchase Extended Security Updates as long as product licenses come through an active EA, EAS, SCE or EES agreement or Subscription. Product licenses and Software Assurance do not need to reside on the same enrollment. However, customers cannot purchase Extended Security Updates outside of the EA, EAS, SCE, EES, or Subscription licensing programs.
- Customers can purchase Extended Security Updates only for the servers they need to cover. Extended Security Updates can be purchased directly from Microsoft or a Microsoft licensing partner.
- The Enterprise, Datacenter, Standard, Web, and Workgroup editions of SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 and the Datacenter, Enterprise, and Standard editions of Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 are eligible for Extended Security Updates, for both x86 and x64 versions.
- In Azure: Customers can begin migrating workloads to Azure Virtual Machines immediately and apply regular security updates until the End of Support date, at which time Extended Security Updates will become available, ensuring continuous coverage.
- On-premises or hosted environments: Extended Security Updates are now available for purchase, and can be ordered from Microsoft or a Microsoft licensing partner. The delivery of Extended Security Updates will begin after the End of Support dates, if and when available.
- For SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2: Extended Security Updates include provision of Security Updates and Bulletins rated “critical” for a maximum of three years after July 9, 2019.
- For Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2: Extended Security Updates include provision of Security Updates and Bulletins rated “critical” and “important,” for a maximum of three years after January 14, 2020.
- Extended Security Updates will be distributed if and when available. Extended Security Updates do not include technical support, but you may use other Microsoft support plans to get assistance on your Server 2008 and 2008 R2 questions on workloads covered by Extended Security Updates.
- Extended Security Updates do not include new features, customer-requested non-security hotfixes, or design change requests. However, Microsoft may include non-security fixes as deemed necessary.
- There is no retroactive effect for any update that the engineering teams declined in the past.
- For more information on what is considered “critical” or “important,” please visit the MSRC site.
- For End of Support events in the past, SQL Server provided only Critical Security Updates, which meets the compliance criteria of our enterprise customers. SQL Server does not ship a general monthly security update. Microsoft only provides on-demand SQL Server security updates (GDRs) for MSRC bulletins where SQL Server is identified as an affected product.
- If there are situations where new SQL Server important updates will not be provided and it is deemed critical by the customer but not by MSRC, we will work with the customer on a case-by-case basis to suggest appropriate mitigation.
- Software Assurance customers can purchase Extended Security Updates on-premises under an Enterprise Agreement (EA), Enterprise Subscription Agreement (EAS), a Server & Cloud Enrollment (SCE), or an Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES). Software Assurance does not need to be on the same enrollment.
- No, customers can choose to cover as many 2008 on-premises servers with Software Assurance as they need for Extended Security Updates.
- In Azure: Customers running Windows Server or SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 in an Azure Virtual Machine will get Extended Security Updates for no additional charges above the cost of running the virtual machine. Customers moving to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance (PaaS) do not need Extended Security Updates, as this is a fully managed solution, and is always updated and patched by Microsoft.
- On-premises: Customers with active Software Assurance or subscription licenses can purchase Extended Security Updates for approximately 75% of the on-premises license cost annually. Pricing is available on published price lists. Contact your Microsoft partner or account team for more details.
- Hosted environments: Customers who license Windows Server or SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2 through an authorized SPLA hoster will need to separately purchase Extended Security Updates under an Enterprise or Server and Cloud Enrollment either directly from Microsoft for approximately 75% of the full on-premises license cost annually or from their Microsoft reseller for use in the hosted environment. The price of Extended Security Updates acquired through Microsoft resellers is set by the reseller. Pricing for Windows Server Extended Security Updates is based on Windows Server Standard per core pricing, based on the number of virtual cores in the hosted virtual machine, and subject to a minimum of 16 licenses per instance. Pricing for SQL Server Extended Security Updates is based on SQL Server per core pricing, based on the number of virtual cores in the hosted virtual machine, and subject to a minimum of 4 licenses per instance. Software Assurance is not required. Contact your Microsoft reseller or account team for more details.
- The price of Extended Security Updates will be calculated based on the number of cores licensed for a customer's on-premises environment. If they licensed 8 cores for SQL Server on-premises and use Software Assurance benefits to have a secondary passive server of 8 cores, that customer will purchase Extended Security Updates based on the 8 cores for SQL Server. Customers can then apply updates to their licensed virtual machined, including the secondary passive server.
- No. Customers cannot buy Extended Security Updates for SQL Server 2008 R2 Express or Developer Edition. However, they can move their workloads to Azure and get the Extended Security Updates for no additional charges above the cost of using the Azure service. Also, customers who have Extended Security Updates for SQL Server production workloads are permitted to apply updates to their servers running SQL Server Developer Edition solely for development and test purposes.
- Customers with active Software Assurance or subscription licenses for their servers are eligible to purchase Extended Security Updates on-premises through an EA, EAS, SCE, or EES.
- Customers can choose which servers to be covered.
- Customers with Software Assurance through other enrollments (e.g. Open, Select, MPSA) can use Extended Security Updates purchased through EA, EAS, SCE, or EES.
- Prices will remain the same for years 1, 2, and 3.
- Pricing for Extended Security Updates will follow the current license model for the server. For example, Windows Server is licensed by core and is required for all physical cores on each server.
- Extended Security Updates pricing is approximately 75% (annually) of the EA or SCE license prices of the latest version of SQL Server or Windows Server. Consult the published price lists or your reseller for actual prices.
- Coverage will be available in three consecutive 12-month increments following End of Support.
- Customers cannot buy partial periods (e.g. only 6 months). The customer’s EA renewal does not need to align to the Extended Security Update annual period. EA and ESU must overlap for at least one month at the beginning of each year of Extended Security Updates coverage.
- Customers must have active Software Assurance coverage or subscription licenses for at least one month at the start of each coverage period in order to be eligible for Extended Security Updates in that period. For example, customers must have Software Assurance coverage for SQL Server during the month of July 2019 in order to be eligible for Extended Security Updates for SQL Server during the first year of Extended Security Updates coverage.
- If customers purchase Extended Security Updates while Software Assurance is active, but Software Assurance lapses before the Extended Security Update coverage period begins, customers will not be able to receive updates.
- Extended Security Updates are available annually, for a fixed 12-month period. If a customer purchases Extended Security Updates in month 10 of the 12-month period, that customer would still need to purchase the full 12 months.
- Customers must have purchased coverage for year 1 of Extended Security Updates in order to buy year 2, and coverage in year 2 in order to buy year 3. Customers may buy coverage for previous years at the same time they buy coverage for a current period. It is not necessary to buy a certain period of coverage within that coverage period.
- Premier Support is not a base requirement, but an additional support contract is recommended if technical support will be required.
- Yes, customers must have active Software Assurance (or equivalent Subscription Licenses) for CALs and External Connector Licenses permitting access to Servers with active Extended Security Updates coverage. However, Extended Security Updates coverage is neither required nor available for CALs or External Connector Licenses.
- Customers cannot license individual Windows Server virtual machines. They must license the full physical server. Licensing requirements for Extended Security Updates on-premises align to the licensing requirements for the underlying Software Assurance coverage or subscription. Customers will only need to know their Windows Server license position for a given server, to know how many Extended Security Update licenses they need.
- Customers who have covered all the underlying cores of the physical server with Windows Server Datacenter licenses should buy Extended Security Updates for the number of physical cores, irrespective of the number of VMs running on that physical server.
- Customers who have covered all the underlying cores of the physical server with Windows Server Standard licenses should buy Extended Security Updates for the number of physical cores, but will only be licensed to run and update two virtual machines on the server. Customers who wish to run and update more than two virtual machines on a server licensed with Windows Server Standard must re-license all of the physical cores on the server with both Windows Server Standard and Extended Security Updates for each additional pair of virtual machines.
- Yes, customers need to run SQL Server or Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 with the latest Service Pack to apply Extended Security Updates. Microsoft will only produce updates which can be applied on the latest Service Pack. Here are the links to the latest service packs:
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows Server 2008
- SQL Server 2008 R2
- SQL Server 2008
- Software Assurance or an equivalent Server Subscription is required for customers to purchase Extended Security Updates on-premises.
- On Azure, customers do not need Software Assurance to get free Extended Security Updates, but Software Assurance or Server Subscription is required to take advantage of the Azure Hybrid Benefit.
- For customers who do not have Software Assurance, the alternative option to get access to Extended Security Updates is to migrate to Azure. For variable workloads, we recommend that customers migrate on Azure via Pay-As-You-Go, which allows for scaling up or down at any time. For predictable workloads, we recommend that customers migrate to Azure via Server Subscription and Reserved Instances.
- Customers who need to stay on-premises can purchase Extended Security Updates when they have an active Server Subscription via EAS or EES, or Licenses through an EA or SCE in addition to Software Assurance through those programs. Alternatively, customers can use Software Assurance through Open, Select, or MPSA agreements in addition to product licenses through an EA, EAS, SCE, EES, or Subscription. Licenses and Software Assurance do not need to be on the same agreement.
- There is no deadline for migration of the Windows Server or SQL Server 2008 workloads to Azure. However, we recommend customers complete migration before the End of Support date (July 9, 2019 for SQL Server and January 14, 2020 for Windows Server) so that they do not miss any Extended Security Updates. If customers miss a year of Extended Security Updates coverage, they may buy coverage for previous years at the same time they buy coverage for a current period.
- No. For these older versions, we recommend upgrading to the most current versions, but customers could upgrade to 2008 or 2008 R2 versions to take advantage of this offer.
- Yes, customers can start a new 2008 or 2008 R2 instance on Azure and have access to Extended Security Updates.
- Customers who purchase Extended Security Updates for production servers may also apply those security updates to servers licensed under Visual Studio (MSDN) subscriptions at no additional cost. There is no limit to the number of MSDN servers a customer can cover. If they purchase Extended Security Updates for a production server, those updates can be applied to any number of MSDN servers.
- Yes. Premium Assurance is no longer available, but we will honor the terms of Premium Assurance for customers who already purchased it.
Windows Server 2008 R2 Latest Security Updates
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How do you check for Windows Updates on Windows Server 2008 R2? I have searched around on the machine and can't find where I run a check.
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Control Panel > System and Security > Windows Update >Check for Updates
OR
Just type 'Windows Update' into the search bar in the start menu.
Download torrent pro free. OR as KCotreau pointed out
Start > All Programs > Windows Update
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Windows 2008 R2 Updates Fail
If you're looking to do this from the command line or from with scripts, the command I use on Server 2003 is
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and I know of no reason that shouldn't work on 2008. Adb and fastboot drivers for windows download.![Windows 2008 R2 Security Updates Windows 2008 R2 Security Updates](/uploads/1/2/6/1/126136053/440431105.jpg)
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