Rajeev Pentyala – Microsoft Power Platform

During a scheduled maintenance or due to a temporary outage, If you want to bring down your portal and display a proper message to users, PowerApps portal has “Enable Maintenance mode” option.

In this article lets see how to use ‘Enable Maintenance mode’ option.

Prerequisites:

• Subscribe to 30 days trial and procure an Office 365 account.

Steps to navigate to Portals admin center:

• Connect to Power Apps maker portal using Office 365 account.
• Create a new PowerApps portal app, if you don’t have already.

• Now from the ‘Apps’ tab, select your portal and go to ‘Settings’.

• From the ‘Portal settings’ pane, click on ‘Administration’ link.

• You will be redirected to ‘PowerApps Portals admin center’.

Enable/disable Maintenance mode:

• Select ‘Portal Actions’ tab and click on ‘Enable maintenance mode’

• You get the ‘Enable maintenance mode’ popup.

• Under Select page to be used when maintenance mode is enabled: Select one of the following values:
  • Default page: Select this value if you want the default page to be displayed. By default, this option is selected.
  • Custom page: Select this value if you want a custom HTML page to be displayed.
    • Custom page URL: You must ensure that the page URL you provide is publicly accessible. 
• I opted ‘Default page’ option and clicked on ‘Enable’.
• If you browse the portal, you would get following screen:

Notes:

• When the maintenance mode is enabled, the customers are restricted from browsing any webpages except the <portal URL>/_services/about page.
• If you opt for ‘Custom page’ option, make sure, the custom page you provided should not contain the x-frame-options:SAMEORIGIN response header, else the page will not load.

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