⚠️ SharePoint Server 2016 & 2019 reach End of Support in July 2026 — 4 months away. Start migrating today →
On July 14, 2026, Microsoft officially ends support for both SharePoint Server 2016 and SharePoint Server 2019. This is not a minor milestone — it means no more security patches, no more bug fixes, and no more technical support from Microsoft.
Organizations running SharePoint on-premises will be left managing an increasingly vulnerable platform while simultaneously facing pressure from auditors, insurance carriers, and enterprise clients to demonstrate they run supported software. The migration window is short. The migration itself takes time. Starting now is not optional — it is necessary.
Every day after July 2026 that you run SharePoint Server 2016 or 2019, the risk accumulates. Security researchers and threat actors both know exactly which unpatched vulnerabilities exist.
After July 2026, Microsoft will no longer patch SharePoint Server security holes. Unpatched CVEs become open doors for ransomware and data exfiltration.
HIPAA, SOC 2, and financial regulations require running on supported software. Staying on EOL SharePoint creates audit findings that can trigger fines or contract loss.
Microsoft support tickets close without resolution for EOL versions. Critical failures — outages, corruption — have no vendor escalation path.
Office 365 and third-party tools drop backward compatibility with EOL SharePoint. Connectors break silently. Workflows stop functioning.
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SPMT only migrates SharePoint to SharePoint Online. But this EOL moment is also your opportunity to evaluate whether SharePoint Online is still the right platform — or whether Square9, Laserfiche, OpenText, or another ECM better fits your workflow. AetherFlow supports any-to-any migration across 10+ ECM connectors.
AetherFlow is built by Final Phase Solutions — ECM migration specialists with 20+ years executing enterprise content migrations for healthcare, financial, and government organizations. Every edge case in the platform was discovered on real migrations.
Connect → Map → Execute → Validate. Self-service. No consultants required.
Point AetherFlow at your SharePoint Server environment. The connector handles authentication, site discovery, library enumeration, and metadata schema extraction automatically.
Use the visual MetaMap™ editor to map SharePoint columns to your target system fields. Apply any of 11 built-in transforms — concatenate, split, format dates, or apply lookup tables.
Kick off the migration. AetherFlow processes documents in parallel, auto-retries transient failures, and logs every action for a complete audit trail.
Automated reconciliation compares source and target document counts, metadata values, and file checksums. A pass/fail compliance report is generated for sign-off.