Delve Blogs Retired: Another One Bites the Dust

For the past two weeks, everyone was super excited about all of the new products that Microsoft has announced at Microsoft Ignite, but looks like shortly after Ignite, Delve Blogs, a product announced at the SharePoint Conference 2014 is the next Office 365 feature that will, bite the dust! There are not many details but here is what we know so far!

PS: If you want listen to the Queen Song Another One Bites the Dust while reading this blog you can do so here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFNK-9A2VRo

Delve Blogs Being Retired

Some Customers started receiving the following Message Center information earlier this week:

As you can see, the deadline is quite aggressive (opinions lower in the post) , with no more new blogs in less than a month, and in April 2020 (4 months) all existing content will be deleted. This is further confirmed by a tweet today by Tim Milan , who was told by Microsoft Support that Delve Blogs is going away, as well as by Microsoft MVP Nate Chamberlain on his blog.

Ding Dong #Microsoft Delve is Dead!

•December 18th, 2019, tenants will not have the ability to create new Delve blogs.
•January 18th, 2020 the ability to create new posts will be disabled.
•Beginning April 17th, 2020, existing Delve blogs will be deleted#Microsoft

— Tim Milan