Microsoft is pulling the plug on a feature many teams quietly rely on. From July 2026 SharePoint alerts are fully retired and alerts stop working. The lists stay, but the heads-up you used to get when something changed or a date drew near disappears.
What you lose
Alerts were the way to make a SharePoint list say something back. An email when an item changed, or a reminder around an expiry date. Without those alerts your list becomes a silent table again: the information is there, but it's up to you to keep remembering to check. Exactly the dates you don't want to miss are the ones that slip through the cracks.
Your list stays, your heads-ups come back
You don't have to move or retype your SharePoint list. In OwndUp you link the list directly, and we mirror it read-only. You can only link lists you're allowed to see in SharePoint yourself, because Microsoft keeps guarding access. The list in SharePoint stays the source and doesn't change.
On that mirrored list you then put reminders. You attach a heads-up to a date column and decide how many days in advance you want to be warned, for example 30 days before an expiry date. All open notifications come together on one page, so you can see at a glance what's coming up.
A few things teams keep watching this way:
- Contracts and licences with a hard expiry date in SharePoint.
- Inspections and certificates that need to be renewed on time.
- Agreements that would otherwise roll over silently.
Owned by OwndUp, so it's safe
The reminder you set in OwndUp belongs to OwndUp, not to SharePoint. We write nothing back to your SharePoint list and change nothing there. If you unlink it later, your SharePoint list stays exactly as it was. You get your heads-ups back without giving anything up.
Alerts are disappearing, but the dates stay important. Link the list once, set the reminder up right, and you'll be warned in time again.