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

Introduction

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

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

Additionally, these services will be completely phased out for existing Learn365 tenants on May 1, 2025.

 

How does this affect new Learn365 customers?

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

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

 

How does this affect existing Learn365 customers?

We have published a migration tool that moves Learn365 at your organization from the SharePoint Add-In model to the new Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory) authentication for SharePoint model.

This transition involves a small amount of manual intervention by the Microsoft 365 global admin at your organization. The Microsoft 365 global admin will also have to be a SharePoint site admin (site collection admin) or a member of the Owners group for all catalogs before migrating.

The migration tool is available via a notification banner in the Learn365 Admin Center.

 

Next steps

For step-by-step instructions on how Microsoft 365 global admins run the migration, see this article.

 

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