Ability to BLOCK self-service purchase capabilities for Power Platform products
Message centre update refers : MC193609 Self-service purchase capabilities for Power Platform products (Power BI, PowerApps, and Flow) will be available for commercial cloud customers starting 11/19.
We need the ability to block this on tenant level with immediate effect. The platform will become ungovernable in a very short period and cause massive governance issues.
Veronique Palmer
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UPDATE as of October 31, 2019: Over the past week, we’ve been listening to your 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. Please check MC193609 in your Message center to see the details.
318 comments
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Veronique Palmer
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Microsoft's responses to my continual requests to manage this via a radio button toggle in the admin centre instead of PowerShell. They just keep closing the call.
"Microsoft looks to balance the needs across its customer base including IT Pros and users. By providing a per application toggle through Powershell and providing adequate notification we are looking to provide IT organizations the control they need while ensuring consideration is given to the features intended to provide end-user productivity value."
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Veronique Palmer
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Microsoft's responses to my continual requests to manage this via a radio button toggle in the admin centre instead of PowerShell. They just keep closing the call.
"Microsoft looks to balance the needs across its customer base including IT Pros and users. By providing a per application toggle through Powershell and providing adequate notification we are looking to provide IT organizations the control they need while ensuring consideration is given to the features intended to provide end-user productivity value."
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Dhruv
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How many of the people are Office 365 Admin. I am curious
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Captain Marcus
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I have mixed feelings. On one hand, the products in question are a frequent administrative overhead, just so that users can build their own reports ( not sure that Flow should have been included), and I suspect SOME that are complaining are trying to keep their service desk job.
But on the other hand, I agree that the implementation strategy was flawed - and I question why the disable option was not there to begin with. Choice should ALWAYS be there, not after complaining.
However:
""Can I have Visio"?
"No, you don't need it, you can do that in Word."
"Okay I'll buy and expense it, need it to do my job."
Then begins the argument for everything else.. why would you not turn off by default?"
If you SERIOUSLY think that forcing a user to use Word for diagramming - equivalent to using Legos to build something - your culture is screwed up.
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Andy Maxwell
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Even the new advertised approach is not acceptable. We will still have to turn it off. The default should be off not on.
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Jamie Kemery
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Please make it so that admins can turn off this feature with a radio button for the entire tenant. The thought of user purchasing their own power platform services is very scary.
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Ross Thomson
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Need a GUI based option. Powershell command PER PRODUCT is not acceptable.
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Darrell Johnson
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Thanks Microsoft for listening to the Voice of the Customer, and providing a way for admins to turn off user-self-purchasing.
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Mitch
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Unbelievable.. Welcome to the Cloud.
Just do what you want.
Why we can't govern this is beyond me. This has to be sorted !!
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Kyle
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No way to restrict this happening? Can see it now;
"Can I have Visio"?
"No, you don't need it, you can do that in Word."
"Okay I'll buy and expense it, need it to do my job."
Then begins the argument for everything else.. why would you not turn off by default?
WHere did this even come from? Private Channels in Teams has been floating around for 2 years and a large majority need it. Who needs staff buy their own product, don't get it ?
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Kyle
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No way to restrict this happening? Can see it now;
"Can I have Visio"?
"No, you don't need it, you can do that in Word."
"Okay I'll buy and expense it, need it to do my job."
Then begins the argument for everything else.. why would you now turn off by default?
WHere did this even come from? Private Channels in Teams has been floating around for 2 years and a large majority need it. Who needs staff buy their own product, don't get it ?
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ELIEN Puente
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Off-by-default please!!!!!
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Rob
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Thank you for listening Microsoft. Even those of us that want to have the ability to turn this off don't think it is a bad idea, it's just not for all of us.
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C B
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AS Microsoft continues to allow shadow IT, especially as this "feature" said "starting with" the Power apps, this will accelerate our move to g suite. This needs to be off by default and accessible via GUI
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BDavis
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Personally, I prefer Off-by-default. However Microsoft is infamous for taking an Off-By-Default feature and suddenly switching it ON for all tenants who haven't yet turned it on. As long as we have a way to turn it off and keep it off before the self-service feature is released, We'll be OK. I set an appointment on my calendar for November 19.
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Antony
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Agreed - no PowerShell settings. Make this Default OFF with a menu/interface in the Admin Console.
I appreciate Microsoft wanting to promote sharing and adoption, but not every company is a "start-up". Most have and/or need serious governance in place to prevent "unwanted situations". -
arnab deb
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Agree, this needs to be off by default with an option to turn on for the O365 admins.
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Nicola
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Agree, thanks, but needs to be off by default with radio button.
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Veronique Palmer
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THANK YOU Microsoft! But this must be off by default with a radio button opt-in / opt-out option instead of PowerShell so that all companies can manage this easily.
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Anonymous
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Please make this a configurable option for a tenant so that customers can decide what's best for their organization.