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The announcement regarding self-service purchase capabilities for Power Platform products??
Just found this in the message center: " Self-service purchase capabilities for Power Platform products will be available for commercial cloud customers starting 11/19. Today, individuals within your...
At Microsoft, we’ve been listening to all of the feedback regarding the rollout of our self-service purchase capabilities for Power Platform products. To those of you who provided your input, thank you! Based on your feedback, we’ve adjusted our approach to better address the needs of both IT admins and end users within organizations. We’re making the following changes to our plan:
- On November 19th, we will provide IT admins a way to turn off self-service purchasing on a per product basis via PowerShell.
- To provide more time to prepare for this change, we are updating the launch for self-service purchase capabilities for Power Platform products to start with Power BI on January 14th for all commercial cloud customers.
You can find more details about self-service purchase at the Self-service purchase FAQ. Thank you again for taking the time to provide your feedback. We look forward to a continued partnership to help empower all organizations to achieve more.
ahayes no. Not Microsoft. If I don’t agree I must be MS?
I enjoy environments where users are trusted and not held back by legacy IT systems or worse, IT admins that are stuck in a comfortable environment not wanting to progress with new technologies.
Yes IT need to control these but if your user wants to use power BI at the moment he will sign up to a new tenant, one that you know nothing about and import your data. With the changes yes he spins up a new instance but under your tenant with you having visibility and the option to pull into your volume agreement. I see that as the best option allowing for better control of that environment.
Just my humble opinion though and yes having the ability to turn it off I think would be a good idea as allowing admins the choice is always the best way.
I enjoy environments where users are trusted and not held back by legacy IT systems or worse, IT admins that are stuck in a comfortable environment not wanting to progress with new technologies.
Yes IT need to control these but if your user wants to use power BI at the moment he will sign up to a new tenant, one that you know nothing about and import your data. With the changes yes he spins up a new instance but under your tenant with you having visibility and the option to pull into your volume agreement. I see that as the best option allowing for better control of that environment.
Just my humble opinion though and yes having the ability to turn it off I think would be a good idea as allowing admins the choice is always the best way.
I have 62 tenant accounts under management (all separate business entities)
For each I have to justify and manage functional access, enterprise policy and expenditure
Without the ability to control how users access these elements I will not be able to migrate future business to Microsoft (and at renewal will need to move the existing away )
As I have commented earlier, for those businesses seeing this development as advantageous and desirable , they should certainly have this option available
However , this is a “deal breaker” for my existing and potential new clients
I have neither the time nor inclination to spend hours unnecessarily (and unpaid)
With powershell scripts to enforce and monitor compliance, where a simple option
To allow or disallow “features” is not made available
Microsoft this is not the way to develop your business
For each I have to justify and manage functional access, enterprise policy and expenditure
Without the ability to control how users access these elements I will not be able to migrate future business to Microsoft (and at renewal will need to move the existing away )
As I have commented earlier, for those businesses seeing this development as advantageous and desirable , they should certainly have this option available
However , this is a “deal breaker” for my existing and potential new clients
I have neither the time nor inclination to spend hours unnecessarily (and unpaid)
With powershell scripts to enforce and monitor compliance, where a simple option
To allow or disallow “features” is not made available
Microsoft this is not the way to develop your business