What are the next steps for your business? Many of our clients are starting to upgrade now or are planning to include the upgrades in their 2019 budget. The deadline will be here before you know it and updating an IT infrastructure is a large task and shouldn’t be put off until the last minute. Businesses in the healthcare industry will be impacted by the changes in relation to HIPPA violations if their server isn’t updated before the deadline. South Jersey Techie’s strongly recommends upgrading your business’s servers and workstations before the January 2020 deadline- and to start planning now to avoid the urgency of the deadline. They will however, continue to patch any security treats.

Normally Microsoft would add new features during the mainstream support phase, but they will not be being doing this anymore. Extended support is still safe to use until 2020 currently. On January 13, 2015, Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows 7, but now extended support is ending as well.

What does that mean for you? First, security patches and updates will no longer be implemented, leaving Windows 7 workstations and servers susceptible to security breaches. Microsoft has announced that its support for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 will be coming to an end on January 14, 2020.

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