Microsoft recently redesigned SharePoint to focus more heavily on its integrated AI features and workflows. The service is heavily used in enterprise environments to manage content and files hosted on their private network, such as HR policies, websites, and other organizational data. Now, Microsoft has announced that it is retiring a handful of SharePoint services and features.
First up, we have SharePoint Designer 2013, which is used to build and customize SharePoint sites, pages, and workflows through low-code methodologies. As part of the product"s fixed lifecycle policy, it will reach end of support on July 14, 2026, after which it will be retired in a staggered manner across all Microsoft 365 environments. It will not receive any security updates beyond this point either.
Microsoft has urged customers who still use SharePoint Designer 2013 to evaluate their existing workflows and migrate them to Power Automate as soon as possible through SharePoint Migration Tool 4.1 (SPMT). No extensions of support will be offered beyond July 14, as explained in the Message Center in MC1230891.
Next on the chopping block are InfoPath 2013 client and InfoPath Forms Services in SharePoint Online, which will be retired on July 14 too. This forms experience is considered quite legacy by today"s standards, and Microsoft already began blocking the publishing of new or updated forms from May 18, 2026. Once we arrive at the July 14 deadline, it won"t be possible to use these services at all. The Redmond tech giant has requested customers to transition to Microsoft Forms, Power Apps, and Power Automate to provide a more modern and intelligent solution, as documented in MC616550.
Finally, Microsoft is getting rid of Remote Event Receivers (RER) in SharePoint Online a couple of days ago as a "part of the Azure ACS retirement and ongoing modernization of the SharePoint extensibility platform." RERs leveraging Azure ACS already stopped working reliably on April 2, 2026, and those registered using Entra applications stopped functioning on July 1, 2027, too.
Microsoft has told users to migrate to SharePoint webhooks or Microsoft Graph change notifications, further explaining that:
- Applications and workflows that depend on Remote Event Receivers will no longer receive SharePoint event notifications.
- Business processes that rely on those events may stop working unless migrated.
- SharePoint webhooks and Microsoft Graph change notifications are the recommended replacement technologies.
- SharePoint webhooks are asynchronous. Solutions that depend on synchronously blocking or cancelling actions will need to be redesigned.
- There will not be an option to extend Remote Event Receivers beyond July 1, 2027.
- Microsoft currently does not provide a tenant-wide method for administrators to discover Remote Event Receiver usage. We will update [...] as soon as a discovery capability is available.
You can find additional details in MC1411726.