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Gimmal Support Advisory

Updated December 16, 2024

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.

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 Content Governance (all versions)
- Indeterminate
Gimmal Link (Legacy)

Gimmal Records – Q2, 2025

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 for the 2nd Quarter of 2025, well ahead of Microsoft’s retirement timelines.

*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.

Further Information

Gimmal will provide relevant updates for all impacted products throughout our release cycles. Please contact Gimmal Support (support@gimmal.com) with any questions or concerns you have and we will be happy to discuss them with you.