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URGENT: Ability for Admins to COMPLETELY remove Connectors from an Environment

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Posted on by Microsoft Employee

Please take the time to vote for this idea. 
This is a HUGE deal. PowerApps is at risk of being dropped by big companies if the ability to COMPLETELY REMOVE connectors from ANY environment is not supported. 

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Ideas/URGENT-Ability-for-Admins-to-COMPLETELY-remove-Connectors-from/idc-p/273315/highlight/true#M25991

Don't say I didn't warn ya!

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  • v-monli-msft Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @ericonline ,

     

    Thanks for your feedback and let others who have the same request vote on your idea.

     

    Regards,

    Mona

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Thanks for bringing this to our attention @ericonline. This will be reviewed. 

     

    @Anonymous 

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Thanks @Anonymous ,

    Please also consider updating the Idea Status from "New" to "Under Review". 

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  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    @ericonline That's not how the ideas board works, but I will get more information for you. 

    @Anonymous  

  • CantankerousOne Profile Picture
    3 on at

    We have the same requirement but we found a work-around that appears to meet our immediate need (until a better solution comes along). It takes about a day to implement (manually) or it could be scripted: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/powerapps-powershell

     

    The work-around is to create a crap-ton of DLP policies... each with their own connector that would otherwise be deleted or blocked. It doesn't matter which data group you put each connector in but, essentially, one DLP policy per connector works like a jersey barrier between each one. This prevents things like the following scenario:

     

    Beth wants to use her personal accounts to move items between her Dropbox and Gmail (both in our no-business-data-allowed data group). The terms "business-data-only" and "no-business-data-allowed" mean nothing (unfortunately) -- they really only act as walled gardens between the two sets. Meaning, by default, Beth can have at it - she can use our company tenant's flow count to conduct her personal business (which, besides being annoying, might also be embarrassing/detrimental to our company if she got caught doing something nefarious).

     

    By creating a separate DLP policy for Dropbox and another for Gmail, they become isolated from each other and her flow gets suspended. Again, it doesn't matter which data group I put these in. In my case, I put both in the "business-data-only" group in both policies and not only do they stop working with each other, but none of the other connectors in our main DLP policy for our self-service environment work with any connectors that are "walled-off" in these other DLP policies.  Awkward but it works.

    If/when the per-connector block becomes available, we'll switch to that ...hopefully soon. 🙂   Else, we'll just script this and automate it so that new connectors automatically get their own DLP policy until they can be reviewed.

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