

That said, there's no need to throw up your hands in despair - there are a number of steps one can take to accelerate Server 2003 migrations. If you happen to be in possession of some of those 7 or 8 million Server 2003 instances, the math isn't terribly comforting. And 'though your mileage may vary, 210 days is a commonly cited amount of time for doing a server migration. The official End of Support date is July 14. But running your enterprise on unsupported servers (no hot fixes, no security patches, no nothing) is a scary proposition. It's not like the 7 to 8 million instances of Server 2003 still out there will suddenly freeze up on July 15, 2015. Lately, it seems that you can't swing a dead cat without hitting some sort of article about the End of Support for Windows Server 2003.

