#Sharepoint 2010 use workflow as timer trial

Azure Compute Cost for a trial SharePoint farm 2019 would be roughly £700 if you ran it for 730 hours. We recommend 2019 over 2013/16 as the import process is easier and you can be up and running far more quickly. If or when SharePoint 2010 workflows cannot be viewed via SharePoint Designer, one option is to deploy a SharePoint 2019 server farm in Azure and import the workflows. Either way, it wasn’t until the beginning of December that we started to see workflows begin to stop working and they’ve still been visible using SharePoint Designer, making it easier to translate the logic to a Power Automate solution. I also expect Microsoft took note of the current demand on IT teams across the world and decided to unofficially delay the retirement without any PR noise. As we know in the M365 SaaS world, feature deployments rarely happen instantly and the deployment across the multi-tenant architecture means the task to switch off SharePoint 2010 workflows across all tenants in one go is not instant. Well, it’s a mixed state to be honest and not entirely unexpected. During planning, we’ve considered alternative workflow solutions but the all-inclusive nature of Power Automate as part of Microsoft 365 is attractive and has meant customers naturally lean towards this option first.Ī month on from the SharePoint workflow retirement date (one customer described it as workflow Armageddon) how are things fairing for those that haven’t converted everything in time? The support article from Microsoft also states that the ability to even view SharePoint 2010 workflow logic via SharePoint designer would be restricted and we would be resigned to view the information as raw XML files only.ĭuring the lead up to this date we’ve worked to convert or rebuild business processes using Power Automate.

The announcement from Microsoft on 6 th July 2020 that SharePoint 2010 workflows were to be retired in M365 tenants from 1 st November 2020 means that creating and running 2010 workflows should now no longer be possible.