Microsoft self-serve Power Platform licences are ‘road to chaos’

guest · Nov 3, 2019

Microsoft self-serve Power Platform licences are ‘road to chaos’
https://www.reseller.co.nz/article/...wer-platform-licenses-road-chaos/?fp=2&fpid=1

Microsoft has come under fire for opening up part of its Office 365 to all enterprise end-users, effectively overriding their procurement procedures.

According to Microsoft, the move is designed to empower individual end-users to “develop their own solutions to unlock productivity and drive business impact”.

"As a result of digital transformation, traditional roles are changing," the company said. "As employees become more independent and better versed in technology, we've seen increased demand from both users and organisations to enable users to buy subscriptions on their own.”
However, the decision has already provoked a deluge of criticism, including from the International Association of IT Asset Managers (IAITAM), which called the move a “road to chaos”.

“By basically bypassing all controls on licencing and purchases within companies, it will be incredibly difficult to know what has been purchased, who has purchased it, when it needs to be renewed, what needs to be ‘patched’ and which software is no longer being protected against hackers,” Barbara Rembiesa, CEO of the industry body, said.
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Microsoft: Self-service purchase FAQ

TheRegister: Microsoft explains self-serve Power platform's bypassing of Office 365 admins to cries of 'are you completely insane?'

Microsoft has defended a policy decision for its "Power platform" – part of Office 365 – to let end users bypass Office 365 admins and make their own licence purchases.

The company has posted an FAQ here – to which one customer has already commented "Are you completely insane?"
Why are admins not able to disable this self-service feature? That is the key question, and Microsoft claimed only that "we're being responsive to our customers [...]
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guest · Nov 3, 2019

Microsoft delays self-service software purchasing plan
November 4, 2019
https://www.crn.com.au/news/microsoft-delays-self-service-software-purchasing-plan-533363

Microsoft has put the brakes on a plan to let end-users buy software without having to first seek authorisation from administrators or partners.

“Totally agree - this is ridiculous,” wrote another. “There is absolutely no reason end-users should have the ability to increase organizational spend at their whim. YOU'D BETTER offer a switch for organizations to turn this off.”
And Microsoft has.
Last Friday the company updated the FAQ to state “On November 19th, we will provide IT admins a way to turn off self-service purchasing on a per product basis via PowerShell. More details will be forthcoming.”

Implementing that seems to have complicated the rollout of self-service licences, as the FAQ now states “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.”
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