What is the difference between mainstream and extended support?

While a product is in mainstream support, we continue to develop features for the product, provide updates and fixes, and offer support. When a product enters into extended support, we continue to provide updates and fixes and offer support, but will not add any new features.

How does this affect your previous announcement about MBAM being added to System Center Configuration Manager and Microsoft Intune?

We are still on track to add feature parity from MBAM to Microsoft Intune and Configuration Manager as noted in the May 2019 blog post, “Microsoft expands BitLocker management capabilities for the enterprise.” If you are using MBAM, but have not yet moved to the cloud, and are not using Configuration Manager, you can continue to use MBAM until April 14, 2026.

What does this mean for me?

If you are using any of the tools in the MDOP suite, we will continue to offer extended support for those products until April 14, 2026.*

Why did Microsoft choose April 14, 2026?

To make it easier for IT pros who use MDOP as a suite of tools, it made sense to standardize a single end of support date across all MDOP products. To ensure that we maintained the end of support promise we’d made to customers, we chose to align to the farthest date, April 14, 2026, which was originally just the end of support date for DaRT 10.0.

In the comments section, Microsoft Sr. Product Marketing Manager for Windows Commercial Marketing, Joe Lurie, confirms that they are not implying that the MBAM integration to SCCM will be postponed and is still on track at the scheduled timeline.