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Is it possible to publish apps build with PowerApps for use by the general public i.e. people not in my organisation.

If so, do they scale well - to 10,000s of users?

Ray W
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I am afraid, it is not possible at this time. There are resources that app needs that are currently only managed at tenant level.

Reza
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FYI, we just had a meeting with Microsoft about licensing & governing. It seems that every public user would also need to pay licensing fees. As such, I don't think this is meant to be used for the general public.

Steve Cochrane
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  • stating the obvious, don't need a meeting to know that. How about changing their licensing and governing :) its not like those public users will be using the PowerApp very often. And its not like it will add much load to their servers. Sounds a but like when microsoft wanted everyone to pay for searching the internet. look how that turned out.. rofl. – hamish Jul 19 '18 at 01:44
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Update for 2021

You can create a PowerApps Portal app (not canvas or model-driven) that allows external users to access it without signing in (public) and can be scaled to any need.

It's basically a website that you can pull data into using a Microsoft Dynamics 365 form.

It does require the data source to be Microsoft Dataverse (formerly Microsoft Common Data Service) and publicly available data.

Mario
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Narcis Radoi
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How about:

  • Setting up an Azure instance with a kick ass domain name
  • Develop PowerApps
  • Spin off subdomains as needed for each "project"
  • Sell per-user seats for each PowerApp

You'd have to bootstrap the distribution (no app store presence) somehow manage a ridiculous Azure AD and separately bill your customers but... its possible (notice I didn't use the word scalable) :P

SeaDude
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