Power BI App Creation Restriction

Hey Bill_J_333444 ,

It's not possible to prevent the creation of a Power BI App. Every owner (meaning an Admin) of a workspace can create a App.

Basically, an an app is the means to share insights.

If you do not want workspace owners being able to create an app and share the insights you must consider the following

• Restrict the users who are able to create an app, there is.a tenant setting
  Admin portal --> Workspaces --> Workspace setting --> Create workspaces
• Why are you using Power BI at all, do you want your users (Business users) to be in charge or is IT in charge (or a BICC, a center of excellence, or ...), all types of organization are possible, but it is essential to have a clear understanding of how you want to use Power BI and enable your users.

We decided that business is in charge. Nevertheless, we restricted the creation of a workspace to only a couple of users. Instead we creaeted a form where every user can request a workspace, of cource certain questions must be answered, e.g. will the workspace contain PII data, ... A request will be approved more or less automatically. Then a Power BI Pro license must also be requested and to have this request approved the name of workspace must be provided.
This allows to enable as many people as possible to create and share insights, but we (I'm working in IT) are able to manage the Power BI platform.

Hopefully, this provides some additional insights.

Regards,

Tom