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The announcement regarding self-service purchase capabilities for Power Platform products??
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.
Hi Kelly_Edinger, With an environment strategy in place, couldn't the risk of data loss/misuse be significantly mitigated? (https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/establishing-an-environment-strategy-for-microsoft-power-platform/) When you have the underlying structures and governance in place, if a maker can only design and make in an environment they have been granted access to through an AAD security group, would this self-service of licenses continue to be a big issue?
Hi Robyn Eisler - yes that could help mitigate. Happy that Microsoft reversed their stance on this, but my two main issues were: 1. The 1st time we heard about it was a quiet post to the message center, not a major announcement 2. most IT depts are not ready - they're still trying to keep up with all the changes in O365 in general.