How to govern Power Apps
A step-by-step guide to governing Power Apps with Rencore: detect with 38 policies, review with 25 reports, and remediate with 0 automations.
Governing Power Apps means keeping its access, configuration, and lifecycle under continuous control rather than reacting after something breaks. Rencore governs Power Apps with 38 pre-built policies, 25 reports, and 0 automations, so teams can detect risk, review posture, and remediate with an audit trail. The steps below turn that coverage into a repeatable routine.
Steps
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Inventory Power Apps
Connect Power Apps and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.
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Detect with policies
Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Power Apps to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.
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Review by owner and severity
Use the Power Apps reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.
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Remediate and automate
Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.
Recommended Power Apps policies
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Power Apps catalog on the Power Apps connector page.
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Power Apps requiring a premium license
Shows Power Apps with premium connectors, custom connectors, common data service etc.
Severity: Information -
Power Apps without a description
Apps without a description are harder for end users to discover and for admins to govern.
Severity: Information -
Power Apps using an on-premise data gateway
Apps reaching on-premise data sources increase the attack surface and depend on gateway availability.
Severity: Medium -
Power Apps using custom connectors
Apps using custom connectors bypass first-party connector governance and must be reviewed.
Severity: Medium -
Power Apps not published in the last year
Apps that have not been republished in over a year may be abandoned and ready for decommission.
Severity: Medium -
Power Apps inactive for 90+ days
Apps that have not been modified for 90 days are likely no longer maintained.
Severity: Information -
Power Apps that bypass user consent
Apps with BypassConsent skip the connector consent prompt and silently use shared credentials.
Severity: High -
Power Apps relying on grandfathered premium APIs
Apps still using grandfathered premium connectors will eventually require premium licenses.
Severity: Medium -
Default environment used for production
Microsoft recommends moving production workloads out of the Default environment to dedicated Production environments.
Severity: Medium -
Power Platform environments not modified for 180 days
Environments without recent activity should be reviewed and possibly decommissioned to reduce capacity usage.
Severity: Information -
Custom Power App connections
Custom connectors expose external APIs and need to be reviewed for security and authentication.
Severity: Medium -
On-premise Power App connections
On-premise connections route Power App traffic through customer-managed gateways and require monitoring.
Severity: Medium
