InfoPath and SharePoint Designer Discontinued

The InfoPath forms application and SharePoint Designer customization tool have been deprecated in favor of Microsoft PowerApps and Flow. SharePoint Online and Office 365 will eventually drop support for them, possibly while the 2013 versions of the products are still supported, but no end-of-support date has been announced. Shown here are the support dates for recent versions of InfoPath, SharePoint Designer, and the versions of SharePoint Server that will still support the customization tools.

InfoPath is a client application for designing electronic forms. Forms can be filled out in the client or published to SharePoint to be filled out in a browser. The Office 365 ProPlus subscription suite and Office 2016 Professional Plus do not include InfoPath. However, organizations can install InfoPath 2013 separately alongside these suites. InfoPath has been replaced by PowerApps in Office 365, although it currently still works.

SharePoint Designer is a client application for customizing SharePoint sites, particularly for creating workflows. SharePoint Designer 2013 SP1 is the last version of the application. SharePoint Designer will be replaced by Flow for workflows in Office 365, although it currently still works.