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Nanovac_AB
Copper Contributor
Mar 11, 2019

Sharepoint 2010 Workflow can no longer be published on Sharepoint 2013 for our Online site

Dear all,     we run a SharePoint Online site, where we have a number of workflows (2010) running mainly to generate documents etc in our automated workflows. All has been working fine, till today,...
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Deleted
Mar 11, 2019

Our Service Health Dashboard has an entry for this:

 

SP175429 - Unable to edit existing workflows or create new workflows

Status: Service degradation
User impact: Users are unable to edit workflows or create new workflows in SharePoint 2010 using Designer and other protocols.
Title: Unable to edit existing workflows or create new workflows
 
User Impact: Users are unable to edit workflows or create new workflows in SharePoint 2010 using Designer and other protocols. 
 
More info: Users may receive the error: "Unexpected error on server associating the workflow," and "Errors were found when compiling the workflow. The Workflow files were saved but cannot run." 
 
Current status: We're making progress on our development of a viable mitigation; though, we continue to expect that it may take an extended period of time to complete. We do anticipate that we'll have a timeline for delivery within the next few days. 
 
Scope of impact: Impact is specific to SharePoint 2010 workflows. Any user attempting to edit existing workflows or create new workflows may be affected by this event. 
 
Next update by: Monday, March 11, 2019, at 8:00 PM UTC
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Nanovac_AB
Copper Contributor
Mar 12, 2019

Hi Kelly, 

 

  i find it remarkable that this type of issue can occur. I Believe not only our business but many other is also getting damaged by this kind of outtage. We´ve got business critical processes that are at standstill, causing significant financial/business damage. 

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    DenisCheong
    Brass Contributor
    Mar 12, 2019

    Google has now indexed another page with more details on this outage:

     

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/unable-to-unpdate-workflow-in-sharepoint-designer/cacd70f9-2ed6-4db3-a55b-b9284251571e

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    DenisCheong
    Brass Contributor
    Mar 12, 2019

    To his credit, I don't think that Deleted works for Microsoft, but he does have access to Microsoft's service health dashboard (which I don't have and they don't publish online that I know of).

     

    It is very poor service and service integration that there can be a global outage of this, which has lasted so long (coming up to a week now) with neither a public disclosure nor a private disclosure that permeates down to me as a business user / site collection admin (which is a service management integration issue between my support organisation and Microsoft, which exists in most if not all of their large corporate customers).

     

    I also still don't understand why there is still a core functionality gap between SharePoint 2010 workflows and their replacements (2013 workflows and Flow) which also means we can't avoid relying on them to function - and have no possible workaround during this outage.

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