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You are not a member of the envorinments security group

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Posted on by Louisa# 5

Hey guys, 

since today users have the following problem.

They can't open apps, which are in a different environment, where they don't are members of the environment security group. 

"The app isn't opening correctly. You can't open apps in this environment. You are not a member of the envorinments security group" 

 

Do you have any idea why it stopped working? 

We need a construct in our environment where all members of our tenant can open apps and only a certain group can create apps.

 

Thanks in advance

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  • Aria7 Profile Picture
    Aria7 2 on at
    Re: You are not a member of the envorinments security group

    Hello everyone. I also encountered the same issue, but I have resolved it now. The reason was that when I uploaded the solution, I selected the wrong environment and uploaded it to the development environment. Regular users didn't have permission to access the development environment, except for developers. So, I deleted it, chose the correct environment, and everything is now resolved.

  • jukka-niiranen Profile Picture
    jukka-niiranen 351 on at
    Re: You are not a member of the envorinments security group

    Looks like the official Microsoft documentation has been updated 4 days ago. Now it includes the statement:

    When a security group is associated with an environment, users who are not members of the security group won't be able to run canvas apps regardless of whether the app has been shared with the user. Instead, users will see this error message: "You can't open apps in this environment. You are not a member of the environment's security group."

    Control user access to environments: security groups and licenses
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  • MikeS_UK Profile Picture
    MikeS_UK 16 on at
    Re: You are not a member of the envorinments security group

    Added the canvas app users to the environment security group has solved the problem. The users did not need to be set up with a role.

  • HMJ_Somerset Profile Picture
    HMJ_Somerset 118 on at
    Re: You are not a member of the envorinments security group

    Thanks for letting me know.  Well, that has just scuppered our ALM strategy.  We use environments with security groups to give our developers access to create canvas apps, and then share them with our users.  This is not going to help at all.

  • MikeS_UK Profile Picture
    MikeS_UK 16 on at
    Re: You are not a member of the envorinments security group

    I have been in contact with Microsoft. Apparently, you now have to add the users of Canvas Apps to the environment security group. Just testing this to see if it solves the problem.

  • HMJ_Somerset Profile Picture
    HMJ_Somerset 118 on at
    Re: You are not a member of the envorinments security group

    This is also affecting our users.  We have an environment with controlled access for developers but have a number of canvas apps with SharePoint datasources that are widely shared.  We had no problems accessing them until today...

  • sarathrk Profile Picture
    sarathrk 20 on at
    Re: You are not a member of the envorinments security group

    We observed this issue in our Environment today. Has anyone found the solution, please?

  • MikeS_UK Profile Picture
    MikeS_UK 16 on at
    Re: You are not a member of the envorinments security group

    We have started to get this problem since Friday, did you get a solution?

  • jukka-niiranen Profile Picture
    jukka-niiranen 351 on at
    Re: You are not a member of the envorinments security group

    While typically a user doesn't need to be a member of the environment's security group to run Power Apps canvas apps (based on my experience), there isn't any real harm in adding the users into the group. This will not give the users any rights within the environment - that's what security roles are used for. You should be able to have a separate group/team of users in the environment with the Environment Maker security role.

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