Recently, Microsoft has announced they are retiring Delve blogs. In doing so, Microsoft has also given us a schedule of important dates relating to the retirement.
- Beginning December 18th, 2019, tenants will not have the ability to create new Delve Blogs
- Beginning January 18th, 2020 the ability to create new posts in existing Delve blogs will be discontinued
- Beginning April 17th, 2020, existing Delve blogs will be deleted and removed from Delve profiles
If your organization has been using Delve blogs, you are probably thinking “wow, I don’t have much time to migrate Delve blogs into communication sites“. That’s correct, it does feel pretty rushed. If you are looking into finding all of the blog sites in your tenant, here is a search query to help you out.
Search Query
* path:yourtenant/portals/personal* ContentType:"Story Page"'&selectproperties='Author,SPWebUrl'
Search via REST
https://yourtenant/_api/search/query?queryText=’* path:yourtenant/portals/personal* ContentType:”Story Page”‘&selectproperties=’Author,SPWebUrl’
Search Explained
The above search query is fairly simple. It will search everything (*) where the path starts with the Delve Blog locations (path:yourtenant/portals/personal*) where the Content Type is the content type used for Delve Blogs (Story Page).
Another method for finding all blogs being used in your tenant is by using the Modernization Scanner. This is a tool that was designed to help companies modernize their classic sites by scanning tenants looking for things like InfoPath usage, Classic Workflows and more.
Well, starting in version 2.7, it will include the ability to scan your tenant for Delve blogs, using the same search methods above.
Beau Cameron 