Power Apps Portal Unknown Failure for Password Reset

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In Power Apps Portals, when a user tries to reset their password, they may run into an error message “An unknown failure has occurred. Error ID #”:

To resolve this, go to the Send Password Reset To Contact process and click on View Properties:

We see the From email is the owner of the contact. If the contact is a portal-created contact, the owner is the SYSTEM account:

To fix this, you can change the from email to another user’s email. Deactivate the process, and add a Dynamics 365 user:

Activate the process, and the email should work:

 

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2 Responses to Power Apps Portal Unknown Failure for Password Reset

  1. Hi,

    This can’t be done in a managed environment and also, it seems that the latest power apps Portal version is very different from this article.

    Is there any update re this issue?

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