Power Platform - Environment

Today, we’re going to speak about Environment. Where people starting to create App or Flow, usually, use Default Environment. But in order to have correct governance or our Power Platform solutions, a good idea (but is not only the one) is create more then one Environment. For Example Dev, Quality and Prod.

What is an “Environment” ?

According to Microsoft , and Environment is a a space to store and share data, app , flows. You can image it as a “Container”.

• Each environment can have a single Dataverse DB (but you can create environment withoud it)

• Default environment is Shared by all users, in my opinion you shouldn’t use it to develop critical app.

Environment types

Basically we can create 4 kinds of environment.

• Sandbox: used for non-production environment but for developing and test. It can be reset or copy.

• Production: used for permanent work. You need Power Apps license to create and manage it. It will provided with 1 GB database capacity.

• Trial: used for short term testing. It will be cleaned automatically after 30 days. I usually use it to try new features. It can be create also as subscription based, and it can be conferted as production environment.

• Developer: you can create a developer plan, follow this one.

Create new Environment

Go to Power Platform admin center: Power Platform admin center (microsoft.com) and click on “New”:

Create new environment

Now you can fill option and create your new environment

Creating

You can find usefull information here.

Contact me for questions! Have a nice day!