
According to the **Atlassian announcement** that came out in October 2020, new server license sales have come to end on 2nd February 2021. Server support for existing licenses will continue to be offered by Atlassian until Feb 2024. However, maintenance and support pricing would increase for server licenses. Atlassian is providing all its server customers three years of time to migrate to the Data Center or Cloud depending on their business needs.

Focusing on the existing server licenses, until 2nd Feb 2022, Atlassian will provide support [database, java, browser] and bug fixes for server products. Beyond that, Atlassian will only provide security bug fixes for critical vulnerabilities until the products will reach the end of support i.e. 2nd Feb 2024. Server customers will also experience an increase in maintenance costs. Also, upgrading and downgrading of user tiers for server products and applications will be limited till 2nd Feb 2022.

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**Impact on Atlassian Marketplace Add-Ons**

- Existing server customers can still purchase server apps/ add-ons available on Atlassian Marketplace till 2nd Feb 2023. 
- Renewals for atlassian marketplace add-ons will also continue till “2023”. 
- Beyond that, you won’t be able to renew your add on license which implies end of server life in Atlassian.
- If you have a Data Center instance, you will need to purchase a Data Center subscription of the add-on provided, the DC version is available on Marketplace.
- If there is no Data Center version available, you can continue to use the server version of the app, though it comes with some risk as the app has not received an architecture review or been performance tested to ensure it can scale in a Data Center environment.
- Whenever a Data Center version becomes available, you will then need to purchase a Data Center subscription to use it on your Data Center instance.

As a customer centric [Atlassian SSO vendor](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/vendors/1213308/miniorange), we are committed in helping our server customers to migrate to Data Center. We will be providing full support and maintenance for all our Server add-ons till 2024.

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Reach out to us at **support-atlassian@miniorange.atlassian.net** or raise a support ticket by [clicking here.](https://miniorange.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/2)

Atlassian server support is ending in February 2024. Existing customers have three years to migrate to Data Center or Cloud. Server support will be limited after February 2, 2022, with no new bug fixes or features. Marketplace add-on sales and renewals will end on February 2, 2023. miniOrange will be providing migration support for customers.

Atlassian Server is gone but Marketplace Add-ons stays with you!


## Save Your Budget By Sharing Confluence Space & Pages With Unlicensed Users! 💸💰

[Confluence](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence?&aceid=&adposition=&adgroup=140527013959&campaign=18336813584&creative=621772822756&device=c&keyword=confluence&matchtype=e&network=g&placement=&ds_kids=p73000477014&ds_e=GOOGLE&ds_eid=700000001542923&ds_e1=GOOGLE&gclid=CjwKCAiAv9ucBhBXEiwA6N8nYNiC34mjJIjDGHonQsqo2gxQlIdb7W2xG1bTDOSFLPcKWYTBUpjPvhoCcS8QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds) is the most used **team workspace** tool for collaboration.With real-time content, this dynamic tool makes it easier for the team to communicate effectively. You would typically wish to share the Confluence pages with two sorts of users: Licensed Users and External Users. **Licensed users** are mostly those who work for your company and regularly access Confluence; you **purchased** their Confluence **licenses** from Atlassian. On the other hand, **External users** or **Unlicensed users** don’t have direct access to your Confluence, they can be **freelancers** or maybe the **contractors** that you outsource for a specific project from some other company that you are collaborating with. External users can also be inside the company like people from Sales, Marketing, Support, Legal team or even an intern who don’t have access to your Confluence instance.

Ouchh that’s a problem! What can you do about it?

-   **Spend the project budget** on a license for each and every user in order to provide access to the material.

-   Sharing Confluence pages by **email** in the form of **PDF** or **Word** documents takes a lot of **time**, and what if someone makes significant changes after that? External users won’t have access to the most recent version of that page, leading to confusion and inefficiency.

Well, we don’t want you to spend too much time or money trying to solve these problems.

Introducing an add-on, [Secure Share Pages for Confluence Cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1225078/mo-secure-share-pages-for-confluence-external-share?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) that can help you replicate and **share live Confluence** spaces and pages with **unlicensed users** or **external users** while maintaining the highest level of **security**. It allows the external users to view the space and add attachments like file or images to the Confluence.

**Comments** are the easiest way to start a discussion or conversation among the team members expressing your opinion or thought. There are two types of comments in Confluence:

**Page Comment –** This feature enables users to comment on the page’s whole content.

**Inline Comment –** The user can add a comment to a particular word, paragraph or section of the page.

miniOrange’s [Confluence Secure Share](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1225078/mo-secure-share-pages-for-confluence-external-share?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) for Cloud add-on allows **external users** to add both comments as well as inline comments.

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, how does this solution **work** and how secure is it?

With the Confluence **Secure Share** add-on, you can generate **secure, unique links** of the Confluence pages and share them with anybody you choose. An **additional layer** of security can be added by setting the **password to secure the links so that only **authorized external users\*\* can access them.

Obviously you don’t want your **link to revolve** in the universe **forever** and which is why there is a provision to set the shared link’s **expiration date,** after which the link becomes inactive and invalid.

Let’s explore the capabilities that the Confluence Secure Share add-on offers:

-   Create & share access links for any **Confluence** space & page.

-   Set **permissions** for external users to View **spaces & pages,** Add **comments & inline comments** and Add **attachments** in the shared pages.

-   You can create a **random password** or use your **own** to password-protect your shared link for **increased security**.

-   Set **validity** for the shared link

-   **Deactivate** the shared link as per your convenience

-   **Hassle-free deletion** for expired secure links

-   Free support for app setup. [Contact us](https://miniorange.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/2) for a Secure Share demo!

We’re adding more **intriguing** and **useful features** to our add-on, like:

-   Receive updates about changes by subscribing to a Confluence space or page

-   Share child pages based on the labels

-   Restricting Confluence spaces based on the user roles or groups

-   Admin can have full control over the plugin and define the level of permissions for users


Secure Share Pages for Confluence Cloud that helps replicate and share live Confluence spaces and pages with unlicensed or external users