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SharePoint 2013 workflow retirement

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SharePoint · Official Microsoft guidanceObserved changes retained

Observed content change

4 removed passages (about 30 words). The changed wording mentions prerequisites. Review the source to confirm the effect.

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Requirement wording
RemovedModernize SharePoint 2013 workflows
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RemovedModernize SharePoint 2013 workflows
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RemovedModernize SharePoint 2013 workflows
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Microsoft's wording from Microsoft source, © Microsoft Corporation, under CC BY 4.0. ChangeIntel marks removed and added words, drops formatting and shortens long unchanged stretches.

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Sections to inspect

Up to 12 section headings from retained before/after evidence. The current source may have changed again.

Why this was flagged

The changed words, with a few words around them, matched these rule categories: prerequisites. These matches identify subjects to assess; they do not establish a policy change or applicability.

Observation details · observed 13 Oct 00:24 UTC
Observed by ChangeIntel
13 Oct 00:24 UTC
Source update metadata
10 Aug 07:12 UTC
First observed on this installation
8 Oct 23:29 UTC
Last successful check
today 17:56 UTC
Next check due
today 23:56 UTC

Observation time is not publication time, and a comparison does not establish an effective date. Full source bodies are not published; this page holds generated summaries, section headings and, as the page's license allows, Microsoft's changed wording. A documentation edit does not confirm feature availability in an environment.

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Timeline

From the capture of 13 Oct 00:24 UTC
  1. Retired / removedNovember 2020 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
  2. Retired / removedApril 2023 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
  3. Retired / removed2 Apr 2024 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
  4. Retired / removed2 Apr 2026 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
  1. 5 years agomonth windowRetired / removed · unconfirmed
  2. 3 years agomonth windowRetired / removed · unconfirmed
  3. 2 years agoRetired / removed · unconfirmed
  4. 6 months agoRetired / removed · unconfirmed

Requirements, exceptions and scope

  • GuidanceException1 condition1 passage
    Modern business processes are essential for transforming organizational productivity in Microsoft 365. Since the release of SharePoint workflows, Microsoft has evolved workflow orchestration to not…

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How this timeline changed

Changes between ChangeIntel's readings of the page, between commits of its source file where Microsoft publishes it, in Internet Archive copies of pages that keep no other history, and entries from Microsoft's own change log (dated as Microsoft dates them). Edits between readings that neither records are unknown.

  1. November 2020, April 2023, April 2, 2024, April 2, 2026
  2. November 2020, April 2023, April 2, 2024, April 2, 2026
  3. November 2020, April 2023, April 2, 2024, April 2, 2026
  4. November 2020, After November 2020
Observed history and review priority

Captured 13 Oct 00:24 UTC; extracted 16 Oct 16:10 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/fc65ebeb286710c0a830833db8a7e5de7e266b79981fe9c7c34479be9369ad3c.

Review priority. Extracted assertions require review · Applicability or exceptions require review

0 date changes and 0 condition changes across 0 compared revisions. Suggested check interval: 6 hours.

Earlier unavailable versions and edits between checks are unknown. A missing statement requires review; it does not mean the policy was cancelled. Recovered historical statements are not original revision snapshots.

Retained observations · 5

Compact evidence remains available after full document bodies expire. Earlier extractions can have different vocabulary or capture limitations.

Microsoft's edits

History on GitHub

Commits to the page's source in SharePoint/sp-dev-docs, with Microsoft's own messages. Commit dates can be hours or days before Learn publishes the change. ChangeIntel keeps a copy of each diff, so an edit stays readable here if GitHub stops serving it. Read 19 Oct 23:56 UTC.

The page Learn serves was built from a commit that is not in this list: the public copy may lag the repository Microsoft publishes from, or the change came through a shared include.

  1. Archive legacy Modernization Scanner guidance (#10959) View diff
  2. 2013 WF retirement details were added (#8899) View diff
  3. Workflow 2013 modernization and assessment updates View diff
1 metadata-only edit · author, dates or topic labels, no article text
  1. Updating ms.prod/ms.service values as needed. Metadata onlyView diff

No related evidence found in this installation's recent collection. This does not establish that no announcement exists.

Retained observations

  • 13 Oct 00:24 UTC · shown above
  • 8 Oct 23:29 UTC

    Baseline for retained history; no earlier retained text to compare.

What changed

First observed 18 Oct 2026

No field changes in the recorded history.

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