Yes, that was a change. Regardless of which, you won’t get much support for either.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17140 “Extended Support will be available to all customers*. Extended Support includes paid technical assistance** (technical assistance that is charged on an hourly basis or per incident), security updates at no additional cost, and paid non-security updates. To receive non-security updates, Extended Hotfix Support must be purchased in conjunction with or addition to Premier Support, obtained within the first 90 days following the end of the Mainstream Support phase. (The 90-day requirement is waived if Software Assurance or Dynamics Business Ready Enhancement Plan has been purchased for the product in question.) Microsoft will not accept requests for warranty support, design changes, or new features during the Extended Support phase.” From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Stovall Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 12:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] How to force an authoritative and non-authoritative synchronization for DFSR-replicated SYSVOL (like "D4/D2" for FRS) https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/rmilne/2014/07/24/save-the-date-end-of-exchange-2010-windows-7-and-2008-mainstream-support-t-minus-6-months/ Looks like 2008 and R2 are on the same schedule? Currently out of mainstream support and in extended support? Not true? On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 10:18 PM, Don Ely <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Non R2, yes On Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 19:17 Richard Stovall <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 2008 is EOL for MS support? On Nov 16, 2016 7:25 PM, "Webster" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Anyone ever had to use this KB to fix SYSVOL? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2218556 Unfortunately, the two DCs are Server 2008 so they can't call Microsoft for support. I was looking at the section How to perform an authoritative synchronization of DFSR-replicated SYSVOL (like "D4" for FRS) and Steps 4 and 10 confuse me. Those steps say to start the DFSR service but there are no previous instructions that say to stop the service. On one of the broken DCs, there is no DFSR service that shows in services.msc. Any advice on using that KB would be appreciated. Thanks Webster
