Microsoft Power Pages (Power Apps Portals) Partner in Dubai, UAE

Microsoft Power Pages is a secure, enterprise-grade, low-code software as a service (SaaS) platform for creating, hosting, and administering modern external-facing business websites. Whether you’re a low-code maker or a professional developer, Power Pages enables you to rapidly design, configure, and publish websites that seamlessly work across web browsers and devices.

Power Pages is the newest member of the Microsoft Power Platform family. With Power Pages, you can build sites by using the same shared business data stored in Microsoft Dataverse that you use for building apps, workflows, intelligent virtual agents, reports, and analytics with other Microsoft Power Platform components in your organization.

Power Pages licensing is capacity based and offers two types of capacities based on user type: authenticated users per website per month and anonymous users per website per month.

1. Authenticated Users
   1. The authenticated user capacity subscription license can be purchased for the anticipated number of unique, authenticated users. For example, employees (internal) or non-employees (external) accessing a website during a month. 
   2. The authenticated user pay-as-you-go meter enables customers to pay-as-you-go based on the actual number of authenticated users who have accessed a website in a month.

   Meter Definition: Power Pages authenticated user pay-as-you-go meter – A measure of the number of unique authenticated users per website per month.

2. Anonymous Users
   1. The anonymous user monthly capacity subscription license can be purchased for the anticipated number of unique, anonymous users accessing a website in a month.
   2. The anonymous user pay-as-you-go meter enables customers to pay-as-you-go based on the actual number of anonymous users who have accessed a website in a month.

   Meter Definition: Power Pages Anonymous per user/website pay-as-you-go meter – A measure of the number of unique anonymous users per website per month.

Anonymous users are users who browse a website and don’t log in.

Anonymous users/website/month are calculated as unique users who access one or more anonymous pages of the website in a calendar month duration. Uniqueness is determined through a unique anonymous user ID stored in a browser cookie. If the user accesses the site using different browsers or devices or cleans up browser cookies, then a new anonymous user ID is generated and user would be counted as a different user.

If a user accesses a site in both an anonymous and an authenticated manner in the same session or even within same day (24 hours using UTC time zone), the user will only be counted as an authenticated user and not as anonymous user.

The Power Pages authenticated per user and Power Pages anonymous per user offers serve both small and large customer scenarios with a low barrier to entry, and easily scale for high-volume growth. Subscription and pay-as-you-go pricing are detailed below.

Yes, Dataverse database and Dataverse file capacity is included with the authenticated per user/website and the anonymous per user/website licenses. Allocated capacities differ between subscription plans and pay-as-you-go plans as detailed below.

Authenticated users licensed with Power Apps or Dynamics 365 enterprise licenses, are granted use rights for Power Pages as described below.

1. Power Apps per app licensed users – One Power Pages website.
2. Power Apps per user licensed users – Unlimited Power Pages websites
3. Dynamics 365 enterprise licensed users – Unlimited Power Pages websites. These websites must map to the licensed Dynamics 365 application context and map to the same environment as the licensed Dynamics 365 application.

Internal authenticated users of a Power Pages website can use one of the following type of licenses:

1. Subscription based
   1. Power Apps per app – Users can access one Power Pages website that should be part of environment to which Power Apps per app capacity licenses are assigned.
   2. Power Apps per user licensed users – Users who have been assigned Power Apps per user licenses can use unlimited Power Pages websites.
   3. Dynamics 365 enterprise licensed users – Users who have been assigned Dynamics 365 enterprise licenses can use unlimited Power Pages websites. These websites must map to the licensed Dynamics 365 application context and map to the same environment as the licensed Dynamics 365 application.
   4. Power Pages authenticated user/website subscription – Users can access one Power Pages website to which Power Pages authenticated per user/website capacity is assigned. If a user accessing the website has a Power Apps per user or a Dynamics 365 enterprise license assigned, then that user won’t be counted in Power Pages authenticated user/website capacity.
2. Pay-as-you-go based
   1. Power Pages authenticated user pay-as-you-go meter – Users can access Power Pages website that are present in environments enabled for pay-as-you-go licensing.
      If a user accessing the website has a Power Apps per user or a Dynamics 365 enterprise license assigned, then that user won’t be counted in Power Pages authenticated user pay-as-you-go meter.

No. Both CDN and WAF capabilities are included as part of Power Pages licensing and don’t require any additional licenses to be purchased.

Power Pages subscription licenses can’t be used in a pay-as-you-go environment.

Authenticated users are users who obtain secure access to a website by logging in through an authentication provider.

Authenticated user/website/month are calculated as unique users who log into the website in a calendar month duration. Even if a user logs in multiple times to a website in a calendar month, then that user is counted as one user. Uniqueness is determined by using the ID of the contact record (Microsoft Dataverse contact table) to which the user is mapped.

There are several scenarios in which a user who has anonymously browsed the website won’t be counted in the meter, some of these are described below:

1. Any access of a website running in trial mode won’t be counted.
2. Any access of a website running in private mode won’t be counted.
3. If the user accesses specific pages on the website, then they aren’t counted as anonymous users, these are:
   1. Pages related to log in like signin, register, invitation, and externalauthenticationcallback. This is done to ensure if the user is trying to authenticate to the website, they aren’t counted as an anonymous user.
   2. System pages like the ones starting with /_ such as /_services and /_resource.
   3. If a page returns a redirect response (http 3xx status).
   4. If a page returns an error response (http 5xx status).
   5. If a page returns 404, or any http 4xx response.
4. Bots and crawler accessing anonymous pages of the website isn’t counted.
5. If there’s a monitoring system setup to test website availability periodically, it will be removed if it sends a non browser user agent. In case your monitoring system sends a user agent that is of any standard browser, it might be counted. If using a monitoring system to test website availability, we recommend targeting /_services/about page of your website to ensure that it isn’t counted in anonymous user access.
6. If a user is accessing only static resources (CSS, JavaScript, and images) won’t be counted.
7. If a user is browsing anonymously and later logs in to the website within same day (UTC timezone), then that user will only be counted as authenticated user and won’t be counted as anonymous user.

No, log in page access isn’t counted for calculating anonymous users. So if the only anonymous page is sign in page, then it will not require anonymous user subscription to be purchased.

However, it’s important to ensure that rest of the site is made authenticated. This can be done by using Page level permissions on home page and only making it available for authenticated user roles. If any other method is used like using a client side (JavaScript) redirect to log in page, then it might lead to some pages being available anonymously.

1. Subscription based
   1. Power Pages authenticated user/website subscription – Each pack consists of 100 users. This is same for all tiers.
   2. Power Pages anonymous user/website subscription – Each pack consists of 500 users. This is same for all tiers.
2. Pay-as-you-go based
   1. Power Pages authenticated user pay-as-you-go meter – Pay-as-you-go meters aren’t sold in packs rather are counted as individual users.
   2. Power Pages anonymous user pay-as-you-go meter – Pay-as-you-go meters aren’t sold in packs rather are counted as individual users.

Power Pages Authenticated per user/month capacity count the number of unique users in a month that have accessed the website in an authenticated manner whereas Power Apps login capacity counts the number of total logins all users had on the website over a 24-hour period.  

1. Authenticated Users -> Minimum quantity that needs to be assigned to an environment is 25.For example, if you have three websites (in three different environments) and bought one authenticated user pack (100 users), you can assign them in the following ways:
   • Environment 1: 25 (min 25)
   • Environment 2: 35 (min 25)
   • Environment 3: 40 (min 25)
2. Anonymous Users-> Minimum 200 per environment. After that you can assign 1 at a minimum.For example, if you have two websites (in two different environments) and licensed one anonymous user pack (500 users), you can assign them in the following ways:
   • Environment 1: 220 (min 200)
   • Environment 2: 280 (min 200)

1. Power Apps portals login and page view subscriptions will be available for purchase during transition period.
   1. Existing customers who have Power Apps portals login and page view subscriptions
      • Power Apps portals customers whose agreements expire before March 31, 2023 will have the option to renew their agreements using the existing Power Apps portals SKUs for one more agreement term.
      • During this transition period, existing customers will also be able to purchase more capacity for existing SKUs to create new websites or augment capacity for existing websites.  
      • Power Apps portals customers whose agreements expire after March 31, 2023, will need to transition to the new Power Pages licensing upon expiration of their Power Apps portals subscription term.
   2. New customers
      • Power Apps portals per login and per page view SKUs will be available for new customers to purchase until March 31, 2023.
      • After March 31, 2023, new customers will purchase the new Power Pages SKUs.

Power Pages are licensed at a monthly rate that is based on a customer’s anticipated user volume. They aren’t accumulated as individual assets and wouldn’t carry forward month to month.