Extended support and ESU charges that start or double in 2027, licence changes from Power BI to Fabric, the cost of the January 2027 Microsoft cluster, and the labour to avoid all of it. A worksheet of the line items to price, with the published rates we have checked this year.
Most 2027 budgets include the projects people have asked for. Fewer include the charges that start automatically if those projects slip. Put both in, side by side, and the upgrade work usually pays for itself on paper.
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The January 2027 Microsoft cluster: Windows Server 2016, .NET Framework 4.6.2, BizTalk 2016, System Center 2016 and TFS 2017.
Database upgrades that remove Extended Support charges, ordered by monthly charge.
Kubernetes version upgrades on a schedule, so EKS never enters extended support.
Licence reviews at each Microsoft and Atlassian renewal: edition right-sizing often saves more than infrastructure changes.
Contingency for the integration nobody listed. There is always one.
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