Governance setting to control anonymous access to Dataverse data in Power Pages websites

Vamsee Dilli, , 23 June 2023

We are happy to announce the launch of new governance setting in Power Pages that allows administrators to control anonymous access to Dataverse data in Power Pages websites for their tenant.

With multiple makers working on multiple websites in a tenant, administrators can now stay in control of how anonymous access is provided to Dataverse data in Power Pages, using the governance setting ‘Disable anonymous access’. This setting is available under Power Pages sites in Power Platform Admin Center.

With this setting, administrators can control anonymous access to Dataverse data in their websites at varying granularity –

i) Disable anonymous access in all sites
ii) Disable anonymous access only in specific sites
iii) Allow anonymous access only in specific sites
iv) Allow anonymous access in all sites

Indicative screenshot showing the options that admins can select for disabling anonymous access to websites in their tenants — *Admin experience for accessing Governance controls via Power Platform Admin Center*

After administrators disable anonymous access in a website in their tenant, the makers see a notification banner in the Design Studio about the change and will be nudged to remove anonymous permissions that they may have configured on the Dataverse tables.

Indicative screenshot showing the maker experience when anonymous access is disabled by administrator — *Maker experience informing about the governance control that is in force (Design Studio)*

Similarly, makers creating new table permissions will not be allowed to configure anonymous access on Dataverse tables.

*Makers cannot configure anonymous access when creating a new table permissions*

Also, after administrators disable anonymous access in a website in their tenant, the end users will not be able to access Dataverse data anonymously thereby securing organization data from any unauthorized access.

*End user experience: Cannot access Dataverse data anonymously when governance control is in force*

For more details, please see documentation. And as always, we are looking forward to hearing your feedback and are really excited to see more people join us on this Power Pages journey!