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 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 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?

Towards the end of January 2025, we intend to publish a migration tool that will move 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 will involve a small amount of manual intervention by the Microsoft 365 global admin at your organization.

Next steps

When the migration tool becomes available, we'll provide a step-by-step guide to help Microsoft 365 global admins complete the migration process. We'll provide a link to the step-by-step guide from this article.