Power Apps Portal custom domains

Many organizations use Power Apps Portals to fulfil business needs for clients, vendors, employees or other business groups. Read more about the Power Apps portals.

Therefore, having a brandable domain is essential for easy access, and Power Apps Portal custom domains help in branding those portals. Read more about how to add a custom domain name.

Default domain

PowerPlatforms portal when created has to have an address provided by Microsoft. The address has a unique subdomain of powerappsportals.com.

In the example below, the subdomain is “dynamicsupdate” is checked to be unique and can be used. the domain given by Microsoft will be dynamicsupdate.powerappsportals.com.

Again, a domain such as “dynamicsupdate.powerappsportals.com” might not be accepted from the business perspective and pointing to a custom domain is highly needed.

Power Apps Portal custom domains Prerequisites

To set Power Apps Portal custom domains, an SSL certificate is needed and to configure this certificate the portal has to be in a production state.

Trial and production environments

The first prerequisite to configure Power Apps Portal custom domains is to work with production environments only. From the Power Apps portal admin center, The trial and nonproduction environments lack the SSL controls below

• Set up custom domains and SSL
• Manage SSL Certificates

SSL Certificate

Optaining an SSL certificate to the domain or subdomain is needed, and this SSL can be obtained from differnt sources, either paid or free sources. I will not cover how to obtain the SSL cetificate in this post.

Set up custom domains and SSL

In this action, we will be able to add and point the new Power Apps Portal custom domains to the portal and after this will be able to activate the SSL to be able to access the portal securely using HTTPS.

Security role required

Only a Global Administrator or an owner of the Azure Active Directory application linked to this portal will be able to set up the portal hostname or the SSL binding.

Hostname Assigned to Portal

To set up custom domains is required to be set a CNAME record pointing to the subdomain.powerappsportals.com.

In our case, creating a CNAME record in godaddy.com DNS, where the domain is hosted, pointing to the “dynamicsupdate.powerappsportals.com” domain given by Microsoft.

SSL Providers

Free SSLs

There a number of different types of SSL. Some of the SSLs can be obtained for free, examples of free SSL providers are as below.

• Let’s Encrypt – https://letsencrypt.org/
• Zero SSL – https://zerossl.com/

Paid SSLs

Paid SSLs are prefered by many organizatios and can be obtained from many sources.

• Azure – read more on how to create an SSL certificate for Power Apps Portal custom domains
• Godaddy – read more on how getting SSL from Godaddy

One custom domains only

Power Apps Portal custom domains cant be more than one per domain. The custom domain can be change by performing the process using the new domain or sub domain.