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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We have released support for disabling self-service purchase capabilities as of November 19, 2019. You can find additional information in message center post: MC196205
332 comments
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Dynamics Avni
commented
I completely agree with all of the feedback below. It should be "off" by default and should have an easy to use switch in the Admin GUI instead of being done on a per product basis by PowerShell. Also, as another commenter astutely notes, what about the next set of products? This is utterly ridiculous.
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Ed Zandboer
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This is still stupid: it should be "off" by default, not "on". I wonder if anyone at Microsoft seriously thinks that their customers (you know, the ones that pay you) would like this option "on" by default.
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Nick Beacroft
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How as a CSP Partner can I disable this for my customers that I manage?
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Not Drinking from the Kool Aid
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Off by default.
How dare Microsoft be so arrogant as to make more work for our Admins.
Sheer arrogance.
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peter
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Please make it off by default. It will cause an additional headache if someone uses the self service purchase and then it requires global admins to authorize the connections and APIs which is already a pain in environments with a lot of restrictions configured.
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Anonymous
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OK,so now we can disable the currently available apps. When you make more available will they be enabled by default? Will you be notifying us of the new apps when they come available so we can disable them? Do you see the runaround this causes?
Really this is a self-serving, greedy policy. This proves Microsoft's priority is a cash grab and not watching out for the admins that need to protect their companies and employees. OFF BY DEFAULT!
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Anonymous
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Agree - OFF by default and visable in the GUI Admin Center is a must!
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Gary Varga
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@pmckay The script option is not good enough. It should be something that is disabled by default but as it stands a checkbox/button for disabling it is acceptable.
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Veronique Palmer
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We will switch this off for you for free if you don't have someone to do it for you, that's how much we believe in this
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Michel Zehnder
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It really should have:
- Off by default
- Admin Center visibility -
Denis Moquin
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This needs to be DISABLED BY DEFAULT! How is this even something that needs to be stated? Does ANYONE with administrator experience work at MS?
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Vadivelu B
commented
Craze feature with short notice. Please disable it by DEFAULT, admin or organization IT Pro can enable based on their needs.
We are waiting for this feature in our Europe tenant to DISABLE IT IMMEDIATELY :)
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robert
commented
Great! Microsoft heard the voice of the community and released a dedicated PowerShell module 'MSCommerce' to manage Office 365 Self-service purchase.
If you have decided to turn-off self-service purchase for your organization, then you shall disable it now.
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Chris Bash
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Off by default Microsoft. Stop causing us extra work. 7,000+ votes, 300+ comments. Please listen to us. Off by default.
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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
commented
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
commented
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.