Auto-claim policies for Power Apps licenses

As an administrator, you typically allocate licenses to users manually or using group-based license.

Auto-claim for Power Apps licenses allows administrators to set up policies in the Microsoft 365 admin center to automatically grant Power Apps licenses, similar to how they do for other Microsoft products and services.

Once a policy is configured, any user in the organization who requires an individual Power Apps license is automatically granted one under the following circumstances:

• If a user lacks a standalone Power Apps license and launches an app that demands a premium license, the system automatically assigns a Power Apps per user license to that user.
• If a user without a standalone Power Apps license launches an app within a Managed Environment, the user is automatically granted a Power Apps per user license.

Starting February 2024, tenants that have a new Power Apps premium license will automatically have the auto-created policy for Power Apps set up in Microsoft 365 admin center. The auto-created policy ensures that any user that doesn't have a license and launches a Power Apps that requires a premium license, will automatically be granted a Power Apps premium license from the tenant's available licenses. By default, this policy is applied across all environments.

When working with group-based license assignment, administrators can review the list of users to whom licenses were assigned through the auto-claim policy in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Then, they can make changes, as needed, such as unassigning auto-claim-assigned licenses and moving users to designated groups to use Microsoft Entra group-based licensing.