we got an email from Microsoft Retirement notice: VPN Gateway non-AZ SKUs we are using a VpnGw2 VPN gateway on the email it says On 16 September 2026, VPN Gateway non-AZ SKUs will be retired and automatically migrated to AZ SKUs my question is, do we need to action anything or will our config be migrated and all related services wont be affected? thanks a lot

@Marc Morris , Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A Platform. Thank you for reaching out & I hope you are doing well. See : What actions do I need to take? There are no actions that you need to take . If your gateway currently uses one of the SKUs listed in previous section, we'll migrate the gateway for you. When we perform the migration, the migration is seamless. There's no downtime expected. You'll be notified in advance about migration for your gateway. We recommend that you don't change your SKU manually in anticipation of SKU migration unless you want to upgrade to a higher SKU. Hope this clarifies. Thanks, Kapil Please don’t forget to close the thread by clicking "Accept the answer" wherever the information provided helps you, as this can be beneficial to other community members.

Retirement notice: VPN Gateway non-AZ SKUs

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KapilAnanth-MSFT 48,486 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-10-17T05:34:20.2366667+00:00

@Marc Morris ,

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A Platform. Thank you for reaching out & I hope you are doing well.

See : What actions do I need to take?

There are no actions that you need to take. If your gateway currently uses one of the SKUs listed in previous section, we'll migrate the gateway for you. When we perform the migration, the migration is seamless. There's no downtime expected. You'll be notified in advance about migration for your gateway. We recommend that you don't change your SKU manually in anticipation of SKU migration unless you want to upgrade to a higher SKU.

Hope this clarifies.

Thanks,

Kapil

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Sachin Agrawal 5 Reputation points

2024-12-03T12:31:03.72+00:00

Hi ,

I have one doubt on this when I was reading the below document then under FAQ section I found that if we have Basic Public IP then we need to migrate manually to Standard Public IP, it will not be done automatically?

I have confusion here because I have gateways with below configurations hence need to understand if there is any action needed from our side, or it will be taken care by MS.

VPN Gateways SKU: Few vpngw1 and few are vpngw3

Generations: Mostly Generation 1 and few Generations 3

Public IP: All Basic SKUs

Can I migrate my Gen 1 gateway to Gen 2 gateway?

For gateways using Basic IP, you will need to migrate your gateway to use Standard IP when the migration tool becomes available. As part of the Basic IP to Standard IP migration, the gateways will be upgraded to Gen2 with no further action needed.

For gateways already using Standard IP, we will migrate them to Gen2 separately before Sep 30, 2026. This will be done seamlessly during regular updates, with no downtime involved.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/vpn-gateway/gateway-sku-consolidation

KapilAnanth-MSFT 48,486 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-12-03T12:43:08.55+00:00

Sachin Agrawal , currently, there are no announcements on the steps required to migrate a Basic IP to Standard in a VPN Gateway.

It may involve a manual operation in between or might be completely automated.

However, since the document says "migrate your gateway to use Standard IP when the migration tool becomes available", I believe a manual step would be required.

Once the tool becomes available, next steps on how to migrate will be shared in Azure documentations and blog updates.

Cheers,

Kapil

Sachin Agrawal 5 Reputation points

2024-12-03T13:00:07.8766667+00:00

Thanks Kapil, so as per your reply as of now no action needed from customer end?
Do we get email notification from MS if the manual intervention is required, or we need to keep on checking documents periodically?

KapilAnanth-MSFT 48,486 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-12-03T14:15:18.53+00:00

Sachin Agrawal , Yes - no action is required wrt migrating a VPN Gateway which is using a Basic SKU Public IP.

Wrt,

Do we get email notification from MS if the manual intervention is required, or we need to keep on checking documents periodically?

Ideally, there should be an email communication as manual steps may be involved.

However, I'd suggest you also keep an eye on the Blog updates.

Cheers,

Kapil

Sachin Agrawal 5 Reputation points

2024-12-03T14:37:01.9466667+00:00

Thanks, Kapil, for the information and immediate response, really appreciated.

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