Microsoft kills SharePoint Alerts for good in July 2026
Reviewed by Helen Jones
Microsoft will fully remove SharePoint Alerts in July 2026. After that date existing alerts stop working and cannot be extended. The cutover is already underway. New alerts were gradually blocked for new tenants from July 2025, a 30-day expiry feature arrived in October 2025, and new alert creation was turned off for all tenants from January 2026. Users see banners and can self-service extend until the final retirement date. Microsoft points admins to Power Automate templates or SharePoint Rules for common cases such as item created or item changed. The Microsoft 365 Assessment tool can scan the tenant and produce a Power BI report of remaining alerts by site. There is no automatic conversion of old alerts.
For years classic alerts were the default way users watched document libraries and lists for changes. They required almost no setup, lived inside SharePoint, and quietly accumulated across abandoned sites and project workspaces. Small admin teams rarely inventoried them because they rarely broke. That free ride ends in July 2026. Every remaining alert becomes a hard failure, and the only supported paths are Rules or Power Automate. Without an inventory first, the retirement will surface as a wave of helpdesk tickets from people who forgot they even had alerts, while low-value notifications get rebuilt by default and add more sprawl to maintain.
Analysis
This is a change to act on before the banners turn into tickets, not a full Power Platform project. Run the Microsoft 365 Assessment tool, open the alerts-by-site report, and keep only the notifications that still matter on active lists and libraries. Convert those few to SharePoint Rules or a simple flow and let the rest expire.
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