Personally I expect the same will happen to classic workflows as happened to Dynamics for Outlook Plugin:
1. MS will announce deprecation way too soon.
2. Since too many businesses heavily rely on it there will be a huge outcry and much feedback of why Flow is not ready yet.
3. MS will announce the deprecation to be undone but not add new features anymore.
4. MS will continue to invest heavily in Flow and work on making it a reasonable replacement for classic workflow.
5. Eventually they will deprecate.
What I'm most worried about is the increase in costs that are coming along with all these changes. One of our main reasons for going with Dynamics in the past was the simple and reasonably priced license structure. Now I feel I need a degree in Engineering just to understand the different license types and which are the ones we need for our users.
Lots of internal screaming happening here as well...
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Sissy Bottcher
Business Process Innovation Specialist
Dynamics 365 for Sales Enterprise (Online v.9)
San Diego CA
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Original Message:
Sent: Sep 16, 2019 04:11 PM
From: Aaron Back, MCSE
Subject: Legacy Web Client (Classic UI) being deprecated
@Donal McCarthy - I agree. The classic workflows will (should?) be around for a while. But, Microsoft has been unpredictable in the past.
@Peter Gulka - That internal voice screams at me as well. Ha!
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Aaron Back, MCSE
Sr. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Consultant
ACE Microtechnology
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CRMUG Board Member
CRMUG Chapter Leader - Cincinnati, Ohio
Original Message:
Sent: Sep 16, 2019 11:28 AM
From: Peter Gulka
Subject: Legacy Web Client (Classic UI) being deprecated
This is fine. This will be fine.
* screams internally *
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Peter Gulka
National Director, Information Solutions & Data Analytics
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada
Burlington ON
Original Message:
Sent: Sep 10, 2019 03:49 PM
From: Aaron Back, MCSE
Subject: Legacy Web Client (Classic UI) being deprecated
Microsoft just announced that the Web Client interface for Dynamics 365 (Classic UI) will be deprecated on October 1, 2020. You can read more about it here:
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/it/2019/09/10/announcing-the-timeline-to-move-to-unified-interface/
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Aaron Back, MCSE
Sr. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Consultant
ACE Microtechnology
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CRMUG Board Member
CRMUG Chapter Leader - Cincinnati, Ohio
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