Power Apps change the app owner with PowerShell

In this Quick Thursday Tip (QTT) you will learn how to change the owner of one or more Power Apps by using PowerShell. Super handy when someone leaves the company for example. 😀

What is a QTT? - These are short format videos that I will release every Thursday to quickly cover a very specific topic.

What about the long format videos you usually release on Mondays? - I will still continue to release those videos with no changes. QTTs is just a way for me to push small bite size chunks of info that don't warrant a long format video by themselves.

[cbtjoe]

So timely! I've been needing to change all my apps owners over to a systems account owner instead of me. I'm hopefully this will do it. thanks!

[DanielADamico]

Awesome as always! Love this format w/ shorter videos! 👍👍

[cbtjoe]

Hey @Shane, Will changing the owner change the connectors as well? ie: The new owner must still have access to and rights to send mail as, etc, right? Or does the new owner now just have access to the app and still must go in and change all the connections from old person to them now?

[akshaynm]

Funtastic video as always!! Thanks Shane!!

[moethetrader]

hey Shane is it possible to get the underlying SharePoint List where the powerapp is writing to, we are in a situation where app owner left, no documentation of any sort and we need to find out where the data is been written, we also tried editing the powerapps it does tell us the list name but not the url or location of that list it would help if we can pinpoint the backend list url. Thanks for everything you do for the community

[stanleym]

Hey Shane, you should get people using PowerShell ISE and demo things in that for tutorials 👍👍

[alexshteinberg]

Nice one Shane...does this applies to all the apps with an environment or tenant and data driven model apps can use a similar pwshell?

[TracyWork]

Is there a way to call this PowerShell from power automate in the cloud? I have seen examples of calling it from Power Automate desktop but have found nothing from the cloud?

[minstreltokunbo]

Thank you, Shane. However, I just want to migrate only one App from my environment, is it possible

[MantisPhoenix]

How can you use the power Apps to find the current owner of this app? in the UI, . or sharepoint interface?

[Govindahya]

Hi Shane i am trying to create pdf viewer in power app could you please make a video or suggest which video should i watch?

[jennifergrauer]

This is brilliant Shane, just what I have been looking for. Thank You so much. My Username was misspelt, and I created PowerApps before it was corrected, but the PowerApps owner did not update when my username was corrected. Can you confirm that If I run this PowerShell command with my existing ID it should update my details and overwrite the misspelling? Thanks again... love the idea of Thursday Quick Tips.

[manveernakoti]

Hi Shane,
I have followed the steps but for me when i execute Get-AdminPowerApp -Owner $varowner nothing happens, although i have apps under this id . Also when trying to change owner it says Code: Forbidden.

Could you please confirm what role or prerequisite that i should have to be able to execute change owner and i gat request for those from Admin.

Thank you

[alanacerqueira]

Shane, I had an app in perfect function, but I had to add columns and change the positions of other on SharePoint. Now my app says "The specified column "_" does not exist". Do you have an idea of what I can do? Thanks for your videos!!

[DennisSwierkot]

when i try the function: "Get-AdminPowerApp -Owner $varCurrentOwner" or even put my ObjectID instead of the variable, I don't get any respond at all. Do you maybe know where this problem comes from?
Greetings from Germany and thanks for all the crazy good videos and instructions!!

[jreyesvega]

Do not bring me all the apps only one....

[Jairon_Junior]

In my case I got a Conflict error, any idea what it means?
Code : Conflict
Description : Conflict
Headers : {Transfer-Encoding, Vary, Strict-Transport-Security, x-ms-islandgateway...}
Error :
Errors :
Internal : System.Net.HttpWebResponse

[andynortholt]

The command Get-AdminPowerApp - Owner $varCurrentOwner gets the AppName. Curious to know if this is the same as the app id visible in PowerApp>Details?