{"id":16100,"date":"2021-08-31T14:45:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T21:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/simplify-environment-administration-in-the-microsoft-power-platform-with-new-coe-starter-kit-components-for-environment-management\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:52:47","slug":"simplify-environment-administration-in-the-microsoft-power-platform-with-new-coe-starter-kit-components-for-environment-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/simplify-environment-administration-in-the-microsoft-power-platform-with-new-coe-starter-kit-components-for-environment-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplify environment administration in the Microsoft Power Platform with new CoE Starter Kit components for Environment Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An environment is a space to store, manage, and share your organization&#8217;s business data, apps, chatbots, and flows. It also serves as a container to separate apps that might have different roles, security requirements, or target audiences.\u00a0More information:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/admin\/environments-overview\">Microsoft Power Platform environments overview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How you choose to use environments depends on your environment strategy and the apps you&#8217;re trying to build.\u00a0\u00a0For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You might have separate development, test and production\u00a0environments\u00a0for your\u00a0business import apps.<\/li>\n<li>You might have shared environments for productivity use cases.<\/li>\n<li>You might have temporary environments to support training events or hackathons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Developing an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/guidance\/adoption\/environment-strategy\">environment strategy<\/a>\u00a0will be at the core of your administration and governance considerations for the Microsoft Power Platform. Security model, data exfiltration rules, and resource allocation (such as Dataverse capacity) are all affected by how you decide to manage environments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/admin\/control-environment-creation\">Limiting environment creation<\/a>\u00a0as part of your environment strategy\u00a0is beneficial to maintain control: both to prevent unaccounted capacity consumption and to reduce the number of environments to manage. If users\u00a0have to\u00a0request environments from central IT, it\u2019s easier to see what people are working on.<\/p>\n<p>However, because multiple steps (such as configuring security roles and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies) are involved in creating and setting up\u00a0environments, admins run the risk of becoming the bottleneck.<\/p>\n<p>If there is no system in place to carry out environment provisioning tasks and the demand for new environments is high (for example, in a large company with many projects in their backlog), admins risk slowing down\u00a0projects.<\/p>\n<p>New components added to the <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/coestarterkit\">CoE\u00a0Starter\u00a0Kit&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0Core Solution\u00a0are designed to help admins simplify and automate their\u00a0environment management\u00a0strategy.\u00a0The components make up a request management system\u00a0specifically for environment creation. It includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An interface for\u00a0makers (non-admins)\u00a0to create\u00a0new\u00a0and view existing requests.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16101\" height=\"1832\" src=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dev-resources-maker-env.png\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" width=\"3240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dev-resources-maker-env.webp 3240w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dev-resources-maker-env-300x170.webp 300w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dev-resources-maker-env-1024x579.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dev-resources-maker-env-768x434.webp 768w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dev-resources-maker-env-1536x869.webp 1536w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dev-resources-maker-env-2048x1158.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3240px) 100vw, 3240px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>An interface for\u00a0admins to\u00a0review and\u00a0approve or reject requests.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16102\" height=\"1830\" src=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dev-resources-admin-details.png\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" width=\"3240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dev-resources-admin-details.webp 3240w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dev-resources-admin-details-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dev-resources-admin-details-1024x578.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dev-resources-admin-details-768x434.webp 768w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dev-resources-admin-details-1536x868.webp 1536w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dev-resources-admin-details-2048x1157.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3240px) 100vw, 3240px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Automation of\u00a0environment provisioning when a request is approved, which includes:\n<ul>\n<li>Creating the environment with the requested details<\/li>\n<li>Provisioning the Dataverse database (if requested)<\/li>\n<li>Granting permissions\u00a0to the requested environment administrators<\/li>\n<li>Updating the Data Loss Prevention policies\u00a0to securely accommodate the new environment\u2019s connectors\u00a0(if requested)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Automation of environment cleanup\u00a0(to avoid sprawl)<\/li>\n<li>Email notifications\u00a0for important request stage changes (submission, approval,\u00a0fulfillment,\u00a0rejection,\u00a0and expiration)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the full environment creation request process used by the template in the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/guidance\/coe\/env-mgmt\">documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Get Started<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Download and install the latest version of the\u00a0<b>C<\/b><b>enter\u00a0<\/b><b>o<\/b><b>f\u00a0<\/b><b>E<\/b><b>xcellence<\/b><b>\u00a0Starter Kit\u00a0<\/b><b>&#8211;\u00a0<\/b><b>Core Solution<\/b>\u00a0to access the new environment management components.\u00a0Instructions: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/guidance\/coe\/setup\">Set up the\u00a0CoE\u00a0Starter\u00a0Kit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To learn how to\u00a0use the\u00a0environment management components, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/guidance\/coe\/env-mgmt\">How to use\u00a0the\u00a0Environment management\u00a0components<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0CoE\u00a0Starter Kit documentation.<\/p>\n<p>View\u00a0the\u00a0details of the new\u00a0components\u00a0in\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/guidance\/coe\/core-components\">Core\u00a0components<\/a>\u00a0documentation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Environment documentation for admins<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Detailed\u00a0documentation about Power Platform environments can be found here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/admin\/environments-overview\">Environments overview &#8211; Power Platform | Microsoft Docs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/admin\/create-environment\">Create and manage environments in the Power Platform admin center &#8211; Power Platform | Microsoft Docs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/admin\/control-environment-creation\">Control environment creation and management &#8211; Power Platform | Microsoft Docs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/admin\/control-user-access\">Control user access to environments: security groups and licenses &#8211; Power Platform | Microsoft Docs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/admin\/database-security\">Configure user security in an environment &#8211; Power Platform | Microsoft Docs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/guidance\/adoption\/environment-strategy\">Establishing an Environment Strategy &#8211; 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A\u00a0CoE\u00a0is designed to drive innovation and improvement, and as a central function it can break down geographic and organizational silos. A\u00a0CoE\u00a0can be a powerful way for an organization to align around business goals rather than individual department metrics. A key principle is to clarify why you\u2019re setting up a\u00a0CoE, what you aim to accomplish, and the key business outcomes you hope to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0CoE\u00a0Starter Kit provides some automation and tooling to help teams build monitoring and automation necessary to support a\u00a0CoE. It represents what we\u2019ve learned from some of the largest organizations implementing Microsoft Power Platform.\u202f This tool, built with Microsoft Power Platform, is intended to be just that: a starter kit for technology to enable\u202f<i>your\u202f<\/i>processes. 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