Platform Forward Group· 2 min read
Put the freeze on the calendar
The December change freeze is coming whether you plan it or not. Planned, it is the most productive fortnight of the modernization year.
#change-freeze#planning#operations
Tagged: planning
7 articles
· 2 min read
Four Microsoft clocks stop on Tuesday
October 13 ends Office LTSC 2021, Server 2022 mainstream support, Windows 10 ESU year one and the last year of Server 2012 ESU. One query sorts the estate before then.
#microsoft#eol#planning
· 1 min read
.NET Framework 4.8: supported forever, and that's the trap
The runtime ships with Windows and will be patched for years. The ecosystem around it left anyway. Reading the difference before it reads you.
#dotnet#legacy#planning
· 1 min read
Every plan runs on two clocks: effort and calendar
Effort time and calendar time are different clocks, and modernization plans keep reading the wrong one. Four hundred words on telling them apart.
#roadmaps#planning
· 1 min read
The Windows 10 estate: year-two math
Consumer ESU runs out in October. Enterprise ESU doubles every year. If the fleet is still on 10, the spreadsheet decides this one.
#windows#eol#planning
· 2 min read
The first ninety days of a roadmap
A modernization roadmap earns trust or loses it in its first quarter. What to schedule in days 1 through 90, and what to refuse to.
#roadmaps#planning#delivery
· 1 min read
Put January 2027 on the wall now
Windows Server 2016 extended support ends January 12, 2027. Thirteen months is exactly enough time, which means it is almost too late.
#windows-server#eol#planning