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Microsoft should stop turning off flows after 90 days that haven't run

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Posted on by RobElliott

10,535 Super User 2026 Season 2

Can I just say as a super user that it is REALLY, REALLY annoying that Microsoft turns off a flow that hasn't run for 90 days. They don't seem to realise that although the flow hasn't run it might nevertheless be business-critical. Yes they send an email. Whoopdedoo. But the flow they turned off for me this morning was for workplace health & safety incidents that have regulatory reporting requirements. It hadn't run for 90 days because, fortunately, we hadn't had any incidents, but for us it's still a business-critical flow that alerts key staff. It is NOT Microsoft's role to make these decisions about whether a flow should be turned off.

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Hardesh15 7,087 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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@RobElliott Agreed. Due to reorg lots of flow turned off in my org because of inactivity.

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DoggedDave 13 on at

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I am having this problem too. We are new to SharePoint and Power automate but we've figured out how to use Flows, but they are disabled if not used after 90 days. Does anyone know if a way to set the expiry limit to a different value or opt out of expiring a flow?

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David_MA 15,454 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

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I have some flows like you have that don't run often but are business critical because they meet legal obligations. For example, I have a flow that sends out notifications when a legal hold needs to be placed on an employee. It is a good thing when this does not run. My process uses four different workflows for the entire hold process. Because of Microsoft turning them, off, we migrated them to Azure Logic Apps. It has just about the same features as Power Automate, but you get billed per run and they don't get turned off. Since the flow doesn't run often, the costs are negligible considering the legal impact of the flow not running if gets turned off and someone submits a hold request. Our cost for October so far has been €0.28.

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DoggedDave 13 on at

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Thanks for the suggestion. I will look into that as an option until something changes with managing Power Automate flows.

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David_MA 15,454 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

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There is no way that I am aware of unless you use pay-pay-as-you-go pricing or use Azure Logic apps, which is basically pay-as you-go. Power Automate introduces pay-as-you-go pricing (microsoft.com)

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RobElliott 10,535 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

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@DoggedDave It is not possible to change the expiry date or opt of expiring a flow.

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