Lifetime and support matrix for sap gui for windows

SAP GUI for Windows
Release / Platform
Availability & support
- December 20, 2012 -
See also: SAP notes 147519 & 66971 Windows XP
Windows 2003
Server
Windows Vista (only
"Business",
"Ultimate" and
"Enterprise" edtions)
Windows 2008
Server Windows 7
Windows 2008 R2
Server Windows 8
Windows 2012
Server
SAP GUI Version
support timeline
SAP GUI for Windows 7.20
X X X X X X o o
SAP GUI for Windows 7.20 support ends on April
9, 2013.
SAP GUI for Windows 7.30
X X X X X X
X
(as of patchlevel 1)
X
(as of patchlevel 2)
SAP GUI for Windows 7.30 is available since 26th of
June 2012. SAP GUI for Windows 7.30 support ends
on July 15, 2015.
Platform support restriction
Limited support from Operating System vendor
Limited support after
April 14, 2009
=> operating system
upgrade recommended
June 30, 2010
=> operating system
upgrade recommended
March 31, 2012
=> operating system
upgrade recommended
June 30, 2013
=> operating system
upgrade recommended
January 12, 2015
=> operating system
upgrade recommended
June 30, 2013
=> operating system
upgrade recommended
Platform support deadline
No support from Operating System vendor
Support ends
March 31, 2014
Support ends
July 14, 2015 Support ends April 11, 2017
Support ends July 10,
2018
Support ends January 14,
2020 Support ends July 10, 2018
Additional "post mortem" QA procedures for platform Until December 31, 2014 Until June 30, 2016 Until March 31, 2018 Until June 30, 2019 Until December 31, 2020 Until June 30, 2019
Legend
X: GUI / Platform combination is preferred
X: GUI / Platform combination is available
o: GUI / Platform combination is NOT available
Support for older Operating Systems
Windows 2000
Compatibility and Upgrade
What does it mean ...
... Limited support
... Support ends
... Post mortem QA procedures
A given combination of Windows operating system and SAP GUI release is supported as long as both the operating system AND the SAP GUI release is supported.
End of Support for SAP GUI for Windows 7.20
On 09th of Apil 2013 support for SAP GUI for Windows 7.20 will end. If you are using this release of SAP GUI for Windows please start planning an upgrade to SAP GUI for Windows 7.30 as soon as possible.
Clients can also be used to access SAP via Terminalserver or Citrix Presentation Server.
When upgrading SAP GUI, you should use the latest version available (please check for Hardware requirements in note 26417).
SAP may not be able to solve problems that occur exclusively on such a platform. In these cases an operating system upgrade may be the only solution SAP can offer.
SAP does not solve / handle problems that occur exclusively on these platforms.
For an additional transition phase of up to 12 month, SAP applies QA procedures to patches on these platforms.
You can upgrade SAP GUI prior to upgrading your SAP system.
Support for SAP GUI on Microsoft Windows 2000 was dropped in July 2010 since Microsoft terminated support for this operating system on 13th of July 2010. Customers still using Windows 2000 are strongly advised to migrate
SAP GUI for Windows is "downward compatible". You can use, for example, SAP GUI for Windows 7.20 with SAP R/3 3.1, 4.0, 4.5, 4.6 or other pre-existing SAP products starting with SAP R/3. However please be aware that while connectivity to older SAP releases is possible,
official support is limited to those SAP releases which are still within their respective maintenance period (including extended maintenance and for products newer than or equal to SAP R/3 3.1i customer-specific maintenance).
You do not neccessarily have to upgrade your frontend software (mind the restrictions mentioned above) when upgrading to a new SAP release (as long as you are using at least SAP GUI for Windows 6.20) though you will not benefit from new features newer SAP GUI releases
may offer.

Windows 98
Entering “Non-Supported” phase: 1/2004 (*)
End of Life:
30/2006 (on "paid
incident" support
basis)
Windows NT 4.0
Entering “Non-Supported” phase: 6/2003 (*)
End of Life: 6/2004
Windows 2000
Entering “Extended Support” phase: 6/2005 (*)
End of Life: 6/2010
Windows XP Professional
End of Life: 4/2014
Windows 2003 Server
End of Life: 7/2015
Windows Vista
End of Life: 4/2017
Windows 2008 Server
End of Life: 7/2018
Windows 7
End of Life: 1/2020
Windows 2008 R2 Server
End of Life: 7/2018
(*) see also: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeselect
Appendix: Operating System Lifetime (defined by OS vendor)

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