Microsoft's retirement of SharePoint Add-In and Azure Access Control Services

Introduction

Currently, Learn365 uses SharePoint Add-In for application permissions on the course catalog SharePoint site.

Microsoft has announced that from November 1, 2024, SharePoint Add-In and Azure Access Control Services (ACS) will no longer be available for new tenants.

Additionally, these services will be completely phased out for existing tenants by April 2, 2026.

• For more information about Microsoft's retirement of Share Point Add-In, see this Microsoft article.
• For more information about Microsoft's retirement of ACS, see this Microsoft article.

How will this affect new Learn365 customers?

From the October 14, 2024 (version 3.53) release onwards, all new Learn365 customers will instead use Microsoft Entra ID authentication for SharePoint. We will stop using the SharePoint Add-In model completely.

We will also add a new application permission scope (Sites.Selected) during the Learn365 installation consent process. This scope will allow access only to course catalog SharePoint sites.

Tenants on which Learn365 was newly installed between September 20 and October 2, 2024 may experience difficulties when creating course catalogs due to the recent retirement of SharePoint Add-In in Microsoft 365. For information about how you can create course catalogs until a fix is introduced as part of the October 14, 2024 (version 3.53) release of Learn365, see this article.

How will this affect existing Learn365 customers

We continue to plan the transition from the SharePoint Add-In model to the new Microsoft Entra ID authentication for SharePoint method.

This transition may involve some manual intervention by customers.

More information about the transition to the new authentication method will be published over the coming months.