After 10 years of support for Office 2013, on April 11th, 2023, the extended support for this hub will come to an end. After this date, security updates for Office 2013 will no longer be available. Our recommendation is to upgrade to Microsoft 365 apps, which includes the same hub of Office LTSC apps (Worde, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.)
The products that will be affected by this change are:
- Microsoft 365 suite
- Microsoft 365 Apps
How will this affect your organization?
After April 11th, 2023, Microsoft will no longer provide any new security updates. To continue using this product after this date will increase your organization’s exposure to security risks or affect its ability to meet compliance requirements. Furthermore, if you connect to Microsoft 365 as an Office 2013 client, you might experience performance and/or reliability issues.
Microsoft 365 supports these client versions for connection:
- Microsoft 365 Apps
- Office LTSC 2021
- Office 2019 and 2016
*Note: If you don’t have Office 2013 deployed in your environment, you can safely disregard this message.
This announcement came out in November 2021, alongside a list of other 2013 applications and servers that will also reach end of support in April 2023.
Applications:
- Access 2013
- Excel 2013
- Lync 2013
- Lync Phone Edition 2013
- Office 2013
- OneNote 2013
- Outlook 2013
- PowerPoint 2013
- Publisher 2013
- Skype for Business 2013
- Word 2013
- Project 2013
- Visio 2013
Servers:
- Exchange Server 2013
- Lync Server 2013
- Office Web Apps Server 2013
- Project Server 2013
- SharePoint Foundation 2013
To read more details about this announcement, please read the Microsoft article here.
If you have any further questions about how this will affect your organization or are looking to move to a newer version of this product, please contact us. Our Microsoft licensing specialists are here to help you.
