Updated: January 26, 2026 (June 12, 2017)

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Access Services for SharePoint Online Discontinued

by
David Berry

David specializes in SharePoint and Microsoft 365. He spent 25 years as a solution architect and advisor consulting with Fortune... more

Access Services was removed from SharePoint Online (and SharePoint Server SE) in Apr. 2018

Office 365 and SharePoint Online users will no longer be able to create new Access Services databases as of June 2017, and existing databases will be shut down by Apr. 2018. Access Services, introduced in 2010, is a SharePoint feature for hosting Access databases and Web applications built with the Access software in Office. Microsoft recommends that organizations replace Access Services with PowerApps and Flow, both now integrated with SharePoint Online. A tool is offered to help organizations export existing Access Services data to SharePoint lists, which can then be used as data sources for PowerApps and Flow to re-create Access Services applications. SharePoint Server is not affected by this shutdown: Access Services is planned as a feature of the next version of SharePoint Server and will be supported (but probably not improved) through that version’s full product life cycle. More information about the shutdown of Access Services for SharePoint Online is available at https://support.office.com/article/Access-Services-in-SharePoint-Roadmap-497fd86b-e982-43c4-8318-81e6d3e711e8.

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