We don't do content marketing. We write when we've learned something worth sharing — Kintone operational findings, product roadmap milestones, industry shifts in auth and security.
On April 1, 2026, Microsoft 365 shuts down SMTP basic authentication, breaking most Kintone mail plugins. Symptoms, migration options, and OAuth 2.0 transition steps from a Kintone consultancy since 2019.
Step-by-step migration from SMTP basic auth to OAuth 2.0 for Kintone mail plugins. Authorization code flow, token storage, refresh, Send As delegation, error handling, subdomain scoping. Node.js + Kintone implementation examples.
Most of the Kintone plugin market is actually external SaaS that integrates with Kintone — not native plugins. The vendor-side business-model reasoning, the user-side costs, and what happens when a vendor deliberately chooses native architecture instead.
Kintone plugin selection is not about feature checklists. It is about architecture, vendor continuity, cost structure, security, and operational burden. This framework helps buyers avoid year-3 regret.
How to navigate the ringi approval process for Kintone plugins in Japanese enterprises. Five required document sets, vendor selection criteria that pass, timeline acceleration techniques — from real deployment experience.
Past 10,000 records, Kintone lookup becomes noticeably slow. Causes: the records API 10,000-offset limit and UI rendering cost. Solutions covering pre-filters, progressive loading, cursor API, and purpose-built plugins — verified at 50,000-record scale.
Both cybozu.com and kintone.com are Cybozu's Kintone, but they differ in contract era, data residency, and plugin compatibility. Critical differences for plugin selection, SSO, IP-restricted environments, explained from production experience.
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