SPO-AddIn-Retirement-Message
Gimmal Support Advisory
Updated January 2026
Microsoft Retirement of SharePoint Online Add-Ins
On November 27, 2023, Microsoft announced the retirement of SharePoint Online Add-ins and Azure Access Control Service (ACS) for authentication in Microsoft 365 for all environments, including Government Clouds and the US Department of Defense clouds. Please read the following important messages from Microsoft for more details about these retirements and the specific dates impacting these two services.
SharePoint Add-In retirement in Microsoft 365 - Microsoft Community Hub
Azure ACS retirement in Microsoft 365 - Microsoft Community Hub
Impacted Gimmal Products
The following Gimmal products are known to be impacted by these Microsoft retirements. It is important to note that SharePoint Server is not impacted.
Gimmal Records SharePoint Online Connector (all versions)
On-premises deployments
Gimmal Cloud deployments
Gimmal Link (Legacy)
Deployments connecting to SharePoint Online
Gimmal Content Governance (all versions)
Indeterminate
Gimmal Records
The Gimmal Records SharePoint Online Connector currently uses the SharePoint Online Add-in model to manage records in your SharePoint Online tenant. You are impacted by these announcements from Microsoft. However, Microsoft will not disable the Add-in model until April of 2026*.
Gimmal is working on a new release of Gimmal Records that will provide support for the recommended, newer modern authentication using Microsoft Entra ID app registrations. This Gimmal Records release is currently planned to remain ahead of Microsoft’s retirement timelines. The target is:
On-Premises Customers
December 2025, for On-Premises customers. 6.1 of SPOC is now available. Release Notes can be found here. Please note: You must have Gimmal Records Core 6.0 installed before SPOC 6.1 can be deployed.
Gimmal Records Cloud Customers
Requirements Before Deployment To connect the new SPOC to your Microsoft 365 environment, you will need to create an application registration in Azure AD (Entra ID) and grant it permissions to access SharePoint sites. Please see this article for step-by-step details.
Requirements After Deployment Immediately after the update, the account you designate will be alerted that your SPOC tenant has been updated. At this point you will need to validate information and complete configuration. See details here.
Important: SPOC will remain offline until your designated admins complete the post-deployment configuration steps.
The following schedule lists the deployment dates for different regions.
Schedule for Deployment
Dates | Description | Region | Downtime |
January 23rd | Records Cloud Core update | All Tenants | None |
February 5th or 6th | SPOC Test Sites | All Tenants | Yes |
Weekend of February 13th | SPOC Production | Canada/UK | Yes |
Weekend of February 20th | SPOC Production | United States | Yes |
*Please note that Gimmal product deployments are not impacted by any of the earlier deadlines listed by Microsoft.
Gimmal Link (Legacy)
The Gimmal Link (Legacy) suite relies on the SharePoint Add-in model to enable SAP-Microsoft interoperability. However, Microsoft’s planned retirement of SharePoint Add-ins by April 2026 will render Gimmal Link (Legacy) ineffective within SharePoint Online.
To address this, customers are encouraged to transition to Gimmal Link Enterprise for enhanced SAP-content service integration. Gimmal Link Enterprise currently supports Microsoft Modern Authentication and is not affected by this retirement. Customers should work with their Account Manager and Customer Success Manager to plan and execute the transition to Gimmal Link Enterprise, ensuring their systems remain compliant and fully functional.
Link Enterprise is a mature product with a wide range of use cases for SAP and content repositories. It supports migrations, recurring file transfers, document generation, archiving, outbound attachment archiving, inbound document linking, bi-directional data synchronization, list synchronization, data archiving, workflow automation, and governance and compliance. To learn more about Link Enterprise, see our detailed Use Case catalogue.
Gimmal Content Governance
Gimmal has announced the end-of-life for Gimmal Content Governance in December 2025, effective June 30, 2026.
Content Governance will be ineffective within SharePoint Online with Microsoft’s planned retirement of the SharePoint Add-in models in April 2026.
Further Information
Gimmal will provide relevant updates for all impacted products throughout our release cycles. Please contact Gimmal Support with any questions or concerns you have and we will be happy to discuss them with you.