Sophos Central Extends Support to Windows EOL Operating Systems

Microsoft has announced that effective February 1, 2022, it will no longer provide virus updates for the following end-of-life operating systems without the purchase of Sophos extended support.

• Server 2008
• Windows 7
• Linux CentOS 6
• Linux CentOS 8
• Linux Ubuntu 20.10
• Linux Ubuntu 16.4 LTS
• Linux Ubuntu 12.4
• Linux Redhat 6.8
• Mac OS 10.14

Organizations that have a number of unsupported EOL systems will be impacted by this upcoming change. Due to the criticality of this issue, it is of the utmost importance that you either upgrade your systems to a supported operating system or purchase extended support by the end of this month. Failing to do so presents a critical security risk to your network and organization.

As a managed support and security services partner, TSI highly recommends that you and your team purchase Sophos’ extended support and update your EOL operating systems as soon as possible. Once

To learn more about this upcoming change directly from Sophos, please refer to the link below:

Sophos Central: Extended Support for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows SBS 2011