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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.
Yeah, I just entered the dislike in the O365 message center and voted for the option to disable this feature. This is what I wrote in the message center down vote:
You can't let anyone purchase software for the business just because they THINK they need it. That is ridiculous! Like new hires know what they need? OR that they should not be playing with reports in BI if their job is to go to the field and do data collection... We also have very specific purchase procedures to ensure we bill things properly to our clients- allowing the Wild West without the ability to turn off the feature is irresponsible. And this isn't just about a blatant money grab attempt, but we try to keep employees focused on their duties so they can advance- and this creates non-billable distractions. It would be like if you allow your MS Office developers to install XBox and xbox games- as much as they want- onto any of their own company computers - as much as they see fit. You would think that is an awful idea, just like this one.
I hope after reading all the comments from admins around the world that you understand things like this makes us second guess the trust we have placed with Microsoft and O365.
You can't let anyone purchase software for the business just because they THINK they need it. That is ridiculous! Like new hires know what they need? OR that they should not be playing with reports in BI if their job is to go to the field and do data collection... We also have very specific purchase procedures to ensure we bill things properly to our clients- allowing the Wild West without the ability to turn off the feature is irresponsible. And this isn't just about a blatant money grab attempt, but we try to keep employees focused on their duties so they can advance- and this creates non-billable distractions. It would be like if you allow your MS Office developers to install XBox and xbox games- as much as they want- onto any of their own company computers - as much as they see fit. You would think that is an awful idea, just like this one.
I hope after reading all the comments from admins around the world that you understand things like this makes us second guess the trust we have placed with Microsoft and O365.