SharePoint Online: Legacy SharePoint Invitation Manager PowerShell cmdlets have retired
From Microsoft 365 Message Center Archive by Merill Fernando · Microsoft may not have sent this notice to your tenant.What the notice says
Microsoft’s text, safely structuredEffective immediately, we will be retiring the cmdlets in SharePoint Online Management Shell associated with the legacy SharePoint Invitation Manager. As of March 2024, the legacy SharePoint Invitation Manager is no longer used for any external sharing scenarios, as described in MC696169 (Updated) Legacy SharePoint Invitation Manager is being retired (December 2023). The two cmdlets that customized external sharing are no longer functional and are being retired.
How this will affect your organization
You will no longer be able to use the properties -RequireAcceptingAccountMatchInvitedAccount or -NotifyOwnersWhenInvitationsAccepted for Set-SPOTenant, because these properties only applied to legacy external invitations.
What you need to do to prepare
No admin action is required.
What changed
Between archive captures, newest firstThe archive supplies one version of this notice.
Notices it cites
Other posts named in this one- MC696169 · Legacy SharePoint Invitation Manager is being retiredPlan for change · changed 24 Jan 2024From Microsoft 365 Message Center Archive by Merill Fernando
Related public changes
- Official documentation · 11 Nov 2026Set-SPOTenant
- Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026Connect to SharePoint Online PowerShell
- Community source · 14 Oct 2026Tracking File-Level Archiving Activity in SharePoint Online with PowerShell
- Public source · 14 Sep 2026MC1472025: Microsoft SharePoint: PowerShell support for brand fonts deletion Microsoft 365 Message Center Archive by Merill Fernando
- Vendor roadmap · 1 Sep 2026SharePoint: PowerShell support for brand fonts deletion Microsoft 365 Message Center Archive by Merill Fernando
Not confirmed here
What this page cannot tell you- Whether your tenant is affected: this is Microsoft's notice, not a check of your settings.