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

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

• In Power Platform admin center under “Environments” section we will see two links
  • Learn about Managed Environments (Preview)
  • Enable Managed Environments (Preview)
• Navigate to “Power Platform admin center” – https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/
• We have detailed article for navigating to “Power Platform admin center“, please have a look – https://knowledge-junction.in/2022/10/13/small-tips-and-tricks-microsoft-power-platform-admin-center-how-to-navigate-to-microsoft-power-platform-admin-center/
• Once we navigated to “Power Platform admin center” we will on “Power Platform admin center” home page as

• From left pane of “Power Platform admin center” click on “Environments” link
• We will redirected to “Environments” listing page as – https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/environments

• Select the environment for which we need to enable managed environment as

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

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

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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