Major Update : Power Platform – Announcing Managed Environments for Microsoft Power Platform

fig : Power Platform - Welcome email after enabling "Managed Environment"
fig : Power Platform - Welcome email after enabling "Managed Environment"

Hi All,

Greetings for the day!!!

Today new major update – Microsoft announced managed environment for Power Platform

Major Update – Managed Environments for Power Platform is now available in public clouds

Details

What is managed environment for Power Platform

  • Managed Environments provides a set of enhanced governance capabilities for Power Platform admins
  • These governance capabilities help Power Platform admins to simplify, automate, and streamline IT administration for Power Platform

When I could see an option to manage environment in my tenant / When this update will be rolled out

  • The progressive rollout of the enhancements started from yesterday, 12 Oct 22
  • Depending on the home region of our tenant, we can use the newly announced capabilities
  • For the tenants, for which this major update rolled out they could use the managed environment features right away

What changes will happen in my Tenant

fig : Power Platform admin center
fig : Power Platform admin center
fig : Power Platform admin center - Environments
fig : Power Platform admin center – Environments
  • Select the environment for which we need to enable managed environment as
fig : Power Platform admin center - Environments
fig : Power Platform admin center – Environments

Permissions required for enabling / editing managed environments

  • Must have one of the Azure AD role
    • Global admin
    • Power Platform service admin role
    • Dynamic 365 admin

How can I enable managed environment for Power Platform

  • Navigate to “Environments” section in “Power Platform admin center
  • Select the “Environment” for which we need to enable “Managed Environments
  • Here I have only one default environment which I am selecting
fig : Power Platform - Environments - Enabling Managed Environments
fig : Power Platform – Environments – Enabling Managed Environments

What happen when I enable “Managed Environments”

  • Admins will be able to use the latest industry-leading security, compliance, and governance capabilities for their low code solutions
  • Following features Admin can leverage – please notice above image as well
    • Weekly digest
      • Weekly digest will sent to all users mentioned in “Email recipients (for all Managed Environments)” box along with all Power Platform and Dynamic 365 administrators
      • Weekly digest contains details of
        • Proactive adoption insights – apps and flows that have not been active for a while and may need to be cleaned up
        • Most popular apps and flows
        • Number apps used and active users
    • Limit sharing
      • Allows to set the limits on canvas app can be shared
      • Select if users aren’t allowed to share canvas apps with any security groups or with everyone
        • If Exclude sharing with security groups is selected, you can control the maximum number of users to whom a canvas app can be shared with
    • Data policies
      • With Managed Environments, admins can easily identify all the data policies that are applied to an environment

After enabling “Managed Environments” we will receive a welcome email as

fig : Power Platform - Welcome email after enabling "Managed Environment"
fig : Power Platform – Welcome email after enabling “Managed Environment”

Important Note – When Managed Environments are activated in an environment, all users running apps or flows in that environment must have a standalone Power Apps or Power Automate license

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