Modern business process is essential for transforming organizational productivity in Microsoft 365. Since the release of SharePoint workflows, Microsoft has evolved workflow orchestration to not only...
Published Jul 06, 2020
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Kudos to the team at Microsoft for making a tool to catalog the existing workflows....However, like many of the previous comments, my biggest concern is the very short notice.
Here's a riddle - what do these events all have in common?
- Sandbox solutions with code - Decommissioned a week before it was announced
- Access Web Apps - Decommissioned more than a year after the announcement
- Power Apps licensing - Change that broke solutions by reclassifying SQL as a premium connector, but enforcement delayed a year
- Skype for Business Online - Decommission date announced two years in advance
- SharePoint Designer Workflows - Decommission date announced five months in advance
The answer: THESE ARE ALL DISRUPTIVE CHANGES.
Why didn't Microsoft announce this decision in July 2019 with a deadline of November 2020? Why the sudden rush?
Now, the large healthcare organization I work for has to juggle COVID-19 priorities against rebuilding hundreds of workflows.