Microsoft loves self-service license purchases because they’re selling to a captive audience. Access to software they need is immediate without having to involve administrators. Adding the need to track what spending end users do to buy licenses from Microsoft just complicates matters, especially if cheaper (discounted) licenses can be bought through a software purchase agreement at the organization level.Įnd users like self-service purchases because they can buy licenses with a credit card through in-app purchases or a Microsoft product website. They point out that it’s difficult enough to exert any control due to the volume of changes introduced by Microsoft. Tenant administrators usually object to self-service license purchases because they want to know what’s happening in the tenant. The Arguments Around Self-Service Purchases Now, MC245825 posted on March 22 tells us that the range increases again to cover Power BI Premium and Power Automate with RPA (Robotic Process Automation) from April 19, 2021. Roll on to August 2020 and Microsoft augmented the range with Visio and Project Online. The uproar from customers was such that Microsoft was forced to backtrack on the plan until they introduced the ability to disable self-service purchases through PowerShell. At that time, the range was Power Apps, Power BI Pro, and Power Automate.
In November 2019, Microsoft launched an initiative to allow users with an Azure AD account belonging to an Microsoft 365 tenant to self-purchase licenses for a limited set of products. The Arguments Around Self-Service Purchases.
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