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I have customized a SharePoint list form using Power Apps (Customize Forms). The form contains multiple stages, validations, and business logic, so reverting to the default SharePoint form is not a feasible option.

Current setup:

  • Data sources:

    • SharePoint Lists

    • Office365Users

    • Office365Outlook 


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Issue:

 

  • Users can successfully access the SharePoint site and the SharePoint list.

  • When users try to open the customized Power Apps form, they receive a message indicating that a Power Apps license is required.

  • The form opens successfully for the owner/developer account.


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Questions:

 
  1. Is there a way to migrate or configure the form so that all users who already have SharePoint site/list access can open the customized form without receiving a license prompt?

  2. How can I determine whether the issue is related to:

    • Community Plan limitations



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  3. What is the recommended approach for making a SharePoint-integrated Power Apps form available to all internal users while preserving the existing form design and stage-based workflow?
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    sannavajjala87 Profile Picture
    824 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at
    This appears to be a user licensing or entitlement issue, rather than a problem with the SharePoint list permissions or the complexity of the form.
     
    SharePoint, Office 365 Users, and Office 365 Outlook are standard connectors. Therefore, a SharePoint-integrated customized form using only these connectors normally does not require a separate Power Apps Premium license. However, each user still needs a Microsoft 365 license that includes the seeded Power Apps entitlement, and the Power Apps service must be enabled for that user.
     
    The Power Apps Community Plan or Developer Plan is intended for individual development and testing. It does not provide production usage rights to other users and should not be relied upon for an organizational SharePoint form.
     
    I recommend checking the following:
     
    1. Review the affected users’ licenses
     
     
     
    Confirm that the users have a Microsoft 365 license that includes Power Apps for Microsoft 365. In the Microsoft 365 admin center, expand the user’s assigned license and verify that the Power Apps service plan is enabled.
     
    Having SharePoint access alone does not always mean the user has an active Power Apps entitlement. Some SharePoint-only, frontline, guest, or custom license configurations may not include it.
     
    2. Confirm that the form contains only standard connections
     
     
     
    Open the customized form in Power Apps Studio and review:
     
    Data sources
     
    Connections
     
    Power Automate flows called from the form
     
    Custom components
     
    Any recently added connectors
     
     
    The three connectors listed are standard, but a flow called by the form may contain a premium connector, custom connector, Dataverse action, HTTP action, SQL connection, or on-premises gateway. That could cause users to require an additional Power Apps or Power Automate license.
     
    3. Check the environment and ownership
     
     
     
    Verify that the form was created in the organization’s tenant and not under a personal Community or Developer Plan environment. A SharePoint customized form should normally be associated with the SharePoint list and the tenant’s default Power Platform environment.
     
    Also confirm that the owner account and affected users belong to the same Microsoft 365 tenant.
     
    4. Check the users’ connector access
     
     
     
    Although SharePoint-integrated forms are accessed through the list, users may still need to authorize the Office 365 Users or Office 365 Outlook connections the first time they open the form.
     
    Confirm that:
     
    The connectors are permitted by the organization’s DLP policies.
     
    The users are allowed to create the required connections.
     
    Exchange Online is available if the form uses Office 365 Outlook.
     
    Conditional Access policies are not blocking Power Apps.
     
     
    5. Test with a controlled user
     
     
     
    Select one affected user and temporarily assign a Microsoft 365 license known to include Power Apps. After the license is assigned, allow time for provisioning, sign the user out, clear the browser session, and test the form again.
     
    If the form works after that change, the issue is most likely the user’s existing license or disabled Power Apps service plan.
     
    The recommended production approach is to retain the existing SharePoint-integrated form, keep all connections and flows within standard licensing entitlements where possible, and ensure every internal user has a Microsoft 365 license that includes Power Apps. You should not need to rebuild the form or revert to the default SharePoint form unless the current form depends on premium capabilities. 
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    WarrenBelz Profile Picture
    156,271 Most Valuable Professional on at
    I have several SharePoint Lists with Integrated Forms that have a small amount of sharing with customers/suppliers, including a few with no O365 licences (some Hotmail and Gmail accounts included), so the structure allows this with standard connectors.
     
    However if you refer to the Power Apps Community Plan, you will see the first item is that you cannot share an app (you are essentially doing this when sharing the SharePoint List) and comes with the note
     
    PowerApps Plan 2 Trial gives you PowerApps Plan 2 for 90 days. This is meant for trying out PowerApps, Common Data Services and Microsoft Flow. Once your trial expires, you can purchase a plan. If you are already using PowerApps with Office 365 or Dynamics 365, this is the right plan to try out premium functionalities of PowerApps which are available with PowerApps Plan 2.
     
    So I suspect your issue lies with the Power Apps licence you have. You really only need one "normal" Power Apps licence to share Integrated apps with standard connectors as I noted above.
     
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  • CN-06091549-0 Profile Picture
    17 on at
    that error is pretty much the premium license error message, so what type of license do your users actually have?  Are they logging in as guests or some weird, limited SKU that only allows SharePoint or something?

    Did you possibly ever use a premium connector on there, even for testing and it's still in the app even though it's not being used?  Sometimes the metadata gets cached really hard and it's still being seen as a premium connection, or is it in the app even though you're not actually using it?  I've seen that a lot.

    OR, it could be this,  just saw this in the admin portal known issues:

     
    Active
    Product: Power Apps
    Created on: 07/24/2026 2:34 PM PDT

    Please note that this is by design and NOT a bug.

    End users see the message "This app requires a valid Power Apps license. Request a license from your admin" when playing an app, starting around June of 2026.

    Customer Impact:

    Customer sees the banner but is able to continue using the app

    Reiterating that this is by design and NOT a bug. The banner is a non-blocking compliance notification introduced in June 2026. This behavior is intentional and documented in the Managed Environments licensing FAQ. Every active user running an app in a Managed Environment will require a qualifying premium license, even when the app uses only standard connectors.

    Please see documentation Licensing - Power Platform | Microsoft Learn for more details

    Possible impacts:
    • Dynamics 365 Sales
    • Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys (former Marketing)
    • Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Data (former Customer Insights)
    • Dynamics 365 Customer Service
    • Dynamics 365 Contact Center
    • Dynamics 365 Field Service
    • Microsoft Dataverse
  • WarrenBelz Profile Picture
    156,271 Most Valuable Professional on at
    A quick follow-up to see if you received the answer you were looking for. Happy to assist further if not.
     
    Please Does this answer your question if my post helped you solve your issue. This will help others find it more readily. It also closes the item. If the content was useful in other ways, please consider answering Yes to Was this reply helpful? or give it a Like ♥
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