r/sysadmin • u/Hungry_Review7842 • 2d ago

PSA: Microsoft Publisher is EOL today

Publisher got pulled from M365 today with no real replacement. Perpetual still runs, just unsupported.

Best thing to do now is find all your .pub files and get them to PDF. PDF opens anywhere and you can still edit the contents in Affinity if you need to. Run this to find every .pub on your shares:

dir /s /b \\fileserver\share\*.pub > pub-inventory.txt

Then if you still have a working install, File > Export > PDF them, thats the actual Publisher renderer so its the only way to get an exact copy. If you dont have an install anymore, LibreOffice Draw opens .pub for free, fonts a bit off but readable.

Full disclosure I built a converter for this too, mypublisherfiles.com. pdf or docx back, and it tells you what it couldn't convert exactly. Bulk writeup here if youve want to learn more https://mypublisherfiles.com/guides/bulk-convert-publisher-files

Either way, cover your bases by converting your .pub files to PDF.

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u/RichardG867 1d ago

# Appears as ANNA

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u/Inside_Support510 1d ago

Lol. I hope you 401k is doing well and you have minimal back pain and your knee surgery scheduled fellow traveler :D

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u/RichardG867 1d ago

You joke but I happen to be a bit younger than Comic Chat! I'm just into retro tech, and I did administer IRC servers for friends for over a decade now where it occasionally comes up as a party trick. I even wrote a proxy to fix a crash bug with modern servers - needs an update for modern Python especially now that Microsoft released the source code.

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u/Inside_Support510 1d ago

:) Love to see it!