CLOUDY MUSINGS

Every legacy server eventually meets its Ragnarök. It doesn't matter if it's humming away on a rack in a closet, running as a VM on a vSphere or Hyper-V host, sitting in colo, or parked in an Azure subscription nobody's touched since the migration project wrapped. Support ends, the patches stop, and the only thing standing between that server and the wolves is whether you paid Microsoft's toll for a few more years of borrowed time. That toll is called Extended Security Update