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, when we had some modifications we wanted to execute on some of the 2010 workflows. We are using Sharepoint designer 2013. When saving the workflow, there are no issues, but when we try to publish we get an error (see attached) [Unexpected error on server associating the workflow] Right now, we´re at a standstill, and I can not find any real relevant information online on this. Some "older" stuff on temporary files etc have been reviewed, but without success. Pretty desperate now to get some help - Everything is much appreciated.

Well it's now officially a full week without this working, and we have ... nothing. No update, no ETR, just crickets, and nothing from my own organisation's "support" function. I'm keen to understand how everyone else is dealing with the outage, what workarounds have you implemented - and how successful have they been? Why are you still relying on SharePoint 2010 workflows? For us - these are all new workflows developed in the last 12 months that require functionality that is only available in SharePoint 2010 workflows - creation of Document Sets (actually of content types derived from document sets, not document sets per se) and InfoPath forms-based input (for which there is still no sensible replacement available to me).

SlavaGorbunovIt's pretty abysmal to see that:1. It's taking Microsoft TWO WEEKS to resolve this issue, even though they already have the fix after one (which in of itself is too long).2. Microsoft are still only treating this as a "business day" priority - no updates to the record over the weekend, not important enough for 24x7 support? I'm presuming that it didn't take them two weeks to break it in the first place, and it was their own change which caused it (which clearly means they have inadequate testing in place), and also ... if their own changed caused it, then why did they have no backout plan to roll back their change? So much for agile.

DenisCheong Incredible...my eyes may be deceiving me but I believe the fix has been deployed to my tenant/environment. I was able to edit and publish a SPD2010 workflow!

Hi DenisCheong - We have a message in our Service Health Dashboard: Workflows 2010 issueSP194864, SharePoint Online,Last updated: November 6, 2019 2:44 PMStart time: November 5, 2019 10:10 AMStatus: Service degradationUser impact: Users may be unable to create new or edit existing workflows under Workflows 2010.

Our Service Health Dashboard has an entry for this: SP175429 - Unable to edit existing workflows or create new workflowsStatus: Service degradationUser 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

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

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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
- Nanovac_AB
  Copper Contributor
  Mar 12, 2019
  And not chasing Deleted - meerly venting frustation :)
  - DenisCheong
    Brass Contributor
    Mar 12, 2019
    Does anybody following this thread have access to the Microsoft dashboard with the resolution status?
    
    https://portal.office.com/AdminPortal/Home#/servicehealth
- 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.
  - 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
- DenisCheong
  Brass Contributor
  Mar 12, 2019
  +1 can we please have an update on resolving this. I've spent half a day isolating the issue to "not me" and was fortunate enough to find this post through Google.
  
  These types of major issues deserve broader visibility to the affected people. It first occurred on Friday last week.

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