Share with external users

[tpatel]

Hi

Please add feature sharing apps with external users

-T

[alaugMSFT]

The ability to share canvas apps with external users is now availabile in public preview! The documentation can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/share-app#share-with-guests

The blog announcement is here: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/share-canvas-apps-with-guests-in-your-organization/

[DM2018]

@alaugMSFT do you know when this will be in general availability? I can't make use of this until an external user can use their own license. Thanks

[alaugMSFT]

@DM2018 We're targeting general availability October 1st. That said, we just enabled the functionality to recognize an external user's license in their home tenant. This is in production, worldwide.

[SKH19]

@alaugMSFT 

Does this mean that now if I share a canvas app with a guest user in my Azure AD, and that user has a PowerApps license in their own tenant, but not mine, she will be able to use the app? Because I tried this a couple weeks ago and I needed to provision an extra PowerApps license in my tenant.

[alaugMSFT]

@SKH19 - Yes, your understanding is correct. This feature became available in production this week which is why it didn't work a couple of weeks ago.  

[cjlin54]

I tested this functionality today within our multi-tenant environment and it appears to be working! I granted an "external/guest" user access to one of our canvas PowerApps and the person was able to access it successfully even though they were a "guest" within our tenant. I checked our Azure AD and the "guest" user does not have a license within our tenant. The "guest" user in question has a license issued to them from their home tenant, which appears to allow them access to my canvas PowerApp. I'm going to conduct further testing but early signs are promising.

[SS5]

For PowerApps, can the guest user who is provisioned with a personal (non-business/non-school) email access a PowerApp app shared with them?

QUICK CLARIFICATION UPDATE: the guest user has an msn.com email address (personal).  Thank you in advance for any assistance.

[DM2018]

@SS5 from my own testing, yes - Provided they still have the relevant PowerApps license.

All working good for me so far. Able to pair it with externally shared Power BI Reports and Row Level Security.

[alaugMSFT]

@SS5 - Yes, as @DM2018 called out personal email accounts can be used by guests as long as they're licensed. Note, the personal email account must be a Microsoft Account.