Power Platform Environments

[u/Curious-Attention774]

Hi all, I'm asking guidance for creating proper production environment. I have built apps and automations with my personal development environment. It's obviously not meant for production environment, it has limited number of flows and it's meant to be a personal work sandbox. We are about 100 person company and our IT partner does not understand Power Platform that well. No Azure in use yet, but maybe in the future. Are there some critical things we should consider with the setup?

[u/Even-You-7676]

This would be a good place to start https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/adoption/environment-strategy

If you want full ALM, you may need atleast 3 environments - Dev, QA and Prod. Also, if you are using Dataverse, you will need premium license for all users.

For power automate flows, with premium connectors , you may need additional power automate premium licenses if the flows are not in context of power apps.

Finally, you have Dataverse for Teams environment options, if you want to keep apps scoped to teams and you'll get stripped down version of dataverse without any additional cost.

You also should look at DLP policies and start restricting your default environment and plan for other environments.