From the Microsoft Power Platform blogs: Share canvas app; User permissions; AI-generated text; Customer managed keys

In this week’s Power Platform blog roundup:

• Announcing general availability of customer managed keys for Power Apps
• Share canvas app with a Microsoft 365 group In Power Apps
• How to bypass user permissions for updates via PowerApps
• Utilizing Copilot for AI-generated text in Power Pages

Announcing general availability of customer managed keys for Power Apps

On the Microsoft Power Apps blog, Amy Chern noted that Microsoft recently announced the general availability of customer managed encryption keys (CMK) for Power Apps data in your environments.

Chern stated that CMKs provide an added data protection layer for your cloud assets on top of the Microsoft-managed default encryption keys and is now available for all managed environments.

In her blog post, Chern explained that by default, Microsoft-managed encryption keys are used to encrypt and secure all customer data. She added that to give customers greater control over their own data, CMK allows customers to leverage an encryption key from their own Azure Key vault, which Microsoft doesn't manage. 

Chern then provided a link where you can find step-by-step instructions on how to apply this to your environments.

Share canvas app with a Microsoft 365 group In Power Apps

Writing on his blog, Matthew Devaney noted that you can share a canvas app with a Microsoft 365 group along with any associated SharePoint lists. He wrote that this makes it faster and easier to grant access to an app as a user assigned to the group will automatically gain access to the app and lists immediately.

Devaney stated that this also reduces errors because there's no chance you'll forget to share the lists. In his blog post, Devaney explained his method to simplify sharing for SharePoint-based Power Apps. To do so, Devaney described how the members of the Wright Construction Company use the check requests app to submit check requests to the finance department. 

Devaney noted that when the app is shared with a member of the finance department, the SharePoint list it uses to store data should also be shared.

How to bypass user permissions for updates via Power Apps