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Goodbye Atlassian Server

What happens with server apps after February 15?

With Atlassian discontinuing its server product line on February 2, 2024, you (still) might be wondering what exactly is going to happen with your apps on that day.
In this post, we'll sum up the most important points and give you an outlook on Communardo apps specifically.

D-Day: February 2, 2024

Atlassian has consistently pursued a cloud-first strategy for many years. New functions and improvements are released in the cloud first. In some cases, major innovations were no longer made available for the server products. On November 16, 2020, Atlassian announced the next logical step: the consolidation of the license offering and the concentration on the two platforms Atlassian Cloud and Data Center. On February 2, 2021, the sale of server licenses ended and from February 2, 2024, support for server products will be discontinued.

So what are your options to go from here?

Option 1: Atlassian Cloud Migration

Migration to the Atlassian Cloud is an option for all customers with up to 10,000 users. The exact implementation depends on the number of users, compliance requirements, and your use cases.

A move to the cloud is accompanied by many technical and organizational changes to the daily working environment. You should therefore evaluate whether all the requirements are met in your company before migrating. In our cloud readiness workshop, we work together to find out what your path will look like. We will then find the right cloud plan, assist you with onboarding and integration, and work with you to plan and implement the migration. Atlassian grants attractive discounts on licenses for 3 years to all migrants with 1,000 users or more.

Option 2: Atlassian Data Center Migration

If the move to the cloud is not possible for you, you can switch to a Data Center license. For all customers who switch from a server license to a Data Center license, Atlassian will continue to offer discounts on Data Center licenses for a total of 3 years after February 2, 2021. Our experienced team will be happy to advise you on the possible Atlassian licenses for Jira and Confluence. In our Data Center Readiness Workshop, you can evaluate whether the Data Center is the right option for you. This includes an analysis of your requirements and system landscape as well as a cost-benefit analysis.

Option 3: Evaluating other alternatives

At first glance, switching to the Atlassian Cloud or the Atlassian Data Center may not be an option for you. Then you should evaluate what alternatives you have. What use cases do you have in your company? Which alternative systems could be relevant for you? How does the cost-benefit comparison of different solutions look? As a cross-technology partner, Communardo can help you find answers to precisely these questions in an IT strategy workshop.

Check out our Migration Hub, which features a foolproof checklist for migrating.

What's happening with Communardo Server apps?

As we have been following Atlassian's trend towards the cloud for years, our main products are already available in Data Center and Cloud. All Server customers can continue to work with their product licenses until February 2024.

From then onward the following products will stop working as the licences are expiring:

  • SharePoint Connector for Confluence - It's possible to add the macro to the page and connect a file or list. It is not possible to see the file or list though, neither in the edit view nor in the page view.
  • User Profiles for Confluence - Without a valid license, the user profiles show the message “Plugin is not licensed” instead of the user profile data.
  • User Profiles for Jira - Without a valid license, the user profiles show the message “Plugin is not licensed” instead of the user profile data.
  • SubSpace Navigation for Confluence - The message "No valid license available for the Navigation Add-On" will appear. 
  • Accessibility for Confluence - The message "The license of add-on is invalid" will appear. 
  • Categories for Bitbucket - No message is shown. The categories are not shown anymore if the app is unlicensed. 

Metadata for Confluence and the Process Management Suite for Confluence will still be working with limited functionality:
As for Metadata for Confluence, will won't be able to add new fields or sets in the configuration. Users can still see macro content and add new macros though.

With the Process Management Suite, the message "No valid license available" will appear for the initialize and restore process as well as when you try to create a new process, when configuring metadata or for utilizing macros such as displaying a process owner.

See the feature parity sheet on our Migration Hub when evaluating moving.

Please contact us individually if you have a question about a specific app. To check out our apps, please take a look at the Atlassian Marketplace.

The situation brings many challenges that you do not have to overcome alone.

We are happy to assist you!

Franziska Wende, Team Leader Product Marketing

Your contact person

Franziska Wende
Team Lead Product Marketing & Sales