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MC1072889 - SharePoint Alerts retirement

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MC1072889

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SharePoint Online

Last Updated

Oct 22, 2025

Published May 13, 2025

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Major change
Updated message
User impact
Admin impact
Retirement

Summary

Microsoft is retiring SharePoint Alerts by July 2026, phasing out new alert creation starting January 2026 and expiring existing alerts after 30 days from October 2025. Users should transition to Power Automate or SharePoint Rules. Admins should assess impact and update training and support accordingly.

More information

Updated October 22, 2025: We have updated the content below with Power Automate templates to assist in this transition.

Microsoft is retiring the SharePoint Alerts feature to streamline and modernize user notifications. With Power Automate, organizations can benefit from an enhanced, versatile solution that goes beyond traditional alerts, offering seamless integration across Microsoft 365 services and more.

Key Points

  • Major: Retirement
  • Timeline:
    • Starting from July 2025, the creation of new SharePoint Alerts will be gradually turned off for newly onboarding tenants.
    • Starting from October 2025, the SharePoint Alert expiration feature will be gradually activated. Once activated, any SharePoint Alert will have a validity of 30 days starting from its first run, then it will expire. Users can self-service re-enable expired SharePoint Alerts and extend their expiration for another 30 days. Re-enabling and extending SharePoint Alerts can be done by using the “Manage my alerts” list/library menu item, opening the SharePoint Alert to update, extending its expiration date and clicking OK. For more details refer to this support article.
    • Starting from January 2026, the creation of new SharePoint Alerts will be gradually turned off for all tenants.
    • Starting July 2026, Microsoft will remove the ability to use SharePoint Alerts, existing SharePoint Alerts cannot be extended anymore and will not work anymore.
  • Action: Review and assess impact

How this will affect your organization

If your organization still uses SharePoint Alerts, they will no longer function from July 2026 onwards. We recommend customers to port their SharePoint Alerts to the Power Automate platform or alternatively create a SharePoint Rule. To help you with the transition to Power Automate the following set of Power Automate templates can be used by either browsing https://make.powerautomate.com/templates and searching for the template name or alternatively using the links. Template names and links are in the table below.

Classic Alerts ScenarioTemplates for ListsTemplates for Libraries

Changes to an item

Send an email when a SharePoint list item or file is updated
Anything changesImplement this by combining the "Changes to an item" and "Item created" scenario templates
Someone else changes an itemSend an email for changes by others to a SharePoint list item or file
Someone else changes an item created by meSend an email for changes to a SharePoint list item or file created by me

Item createdSend an email when a SharePoint list item is created
Send an email when a new SharePoint file is created

What you need to do to prepare

It’s recommended to update your user training content and prepare your help desk to support your organization with this retirement. SharePoint Alerts users will be notified of this feature retirement via banners in both the relevant SharePoint Online page and Alert emails and users can self-service extend the alerts they deem required.

For admins:

Learn more: