Create Power Platform Managed Environments For Dev-Test-Prod

The basic set of Power Platform managed environments required by ALM best practices are a development environment, a test environment and a production environment. A development environment is where makers create the solution. The test environment is where quality assurance testers and end-users test the solution. And the production environment where end-users operate a live version of the solution.

Table Of Contents:
• Open The Power Platform Admin Center
• Create A New Power Platform Managed Environment
• Configure The Managed Environment For Development
• Setup The Test And Production Managed Environments

Open The Power Platform Admin Center

Environments are created in the Power Platform Admin Center. Go to admin.powerplatform.com and open the Admin Center homepage.

Create A New Power Platform Managed Environment

To find the Power Platform environments menu, select Manage, and then choose Environments from the submenu. Press thew New button to create a new environment.

Configure The Managed Environment For Development

On the New Environment menu select the following setup options:

• Name: choose a name for the environment and use the suffix (DEV). This will let developers know they are in a development environment
• Make this a Managed Environment: select Yes. To use Power Platform Pipelines the environment must be a managed environment
• Type: Sandbox for the development environment
  
  

Choose a URL for the Dataverse instance. A common pattern for URLs is companyname-purpose-environmentype. In the example below the environment name is devaney-almtutorial-dev. Press the Save button once finished.

After waiting a few moments for the environment to be created the browser will redirect to the development environment’s landing page.

Setup The Test And Production Managed Environments

We also require two more environments to be setup for testing and production. Repeat the steps to create a new environment with these settings:

Test Environment

• Name – Your Environment Name (TEST)
• Make This A Managed Environment – Yes
• Type – Sandbox
• URL – companyname-purpose-test
  
  

Production Environment

• Name – Your Environment Name (PROD)
• Make This A Managed Environment – Yes
• Type – Production
• URL – companyname-purpose-prod
  
  

Next Steps

Continue to the next steps in the Power Platform Pipelines & ALM Setup Guide.

Next: Install Power Platform Pipelines In The Host Environment >>

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