SharePoint 2013 Workflow is gone. What now?
Migration is not a one-to-one conversion exercise. First decide which old processes should be kept, redesigned or retired.
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1. Inventory the business processes first
Identify which workflows still run, who owns them, which lists and libraries they use and how critical they are.
- process inventory
- business owner
- criticality
- usage frequency
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2. The target is not always a Power Automate copy
Simple approvals fit Power Automate well; complex stateful or high-volume processes may need Power Apps, Dataverse, Logic Apps or a custom backend.
- Power Automate
- Power Apps
- Dataverse
- Azure Logic Apps / Functions
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3. Redesign permissions and error handling
Modernisation is a chance to fix connection ownership, service accounts, DLP, alerts, logging and environment lifecycle.
- connection ownership
- service account / service principal
- monitoring
- ALM
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4. Do not leave another black box behind
The target should be documented, supportable and understandable to both business owners and IT.
- documentation
- operational ownership
- alerts
- maintainability