Rajeev Pentyala – Microsoft Power Platform

Environment groups is a feature of Managed Environments, which comprise a suite of premium capabilities. These capabilities enable administrators to manage the Power Platform at scale with greater control, less effort, and deeper insights.

Similar to folders, environment groups are designed to help administrators organize their flat list of environments into structured groups based on different criteria, such as business unit, project, and location.

Admins can apply various rules to groups to govern many environments in bulk, reducing manual effort and ensuring consistency.

In this first release, six key capabilities of Managed Environments are available as rules:

• Sharing controls for canvas apps
• AI-generated descriptions
• Maker welcome content
• Solution checker enforcement
• Usage insights
• Extended backup retention

In this article, let’s explore the basics of creating groups, adding environments to groups, configuring rules, and more.

Create Environment Group:

• Sign in to Power Platform Admin center.
• Select Environment groups in the navigation pane.
• On the Environment groups page, select Create a group.
• In the Create group pane that appears:
  1. Add a name for your group in the Name field such as Personal Productivity.
  2. Add a brief description of the group in the Description field.
  3. Select Create.

Add Environment to Group:

• We can only add Managed Environment to the Environment group.

• So, I went ahead and enabled one of my environments as Managed.

• Now, I can add my managed environment to the Environment group, as shown below.

• Once added, you will see your managed environment as shown below.

Configure the rules for environment group:

• Power Platform tenant administrators can configure the group’s rules. Currently, there are six available rules, which are the same capabilities offered when upgrading an individual environment to a Managed Environment.

Managed environment licensing:

• Managed Environments is included as an entitlement in standalone Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, Power Pages, and Dynamics 365 licenses.

• When Managed Environments is activated in an environment, every app, Power Automate flow, Power Virtual Agents bot, and Power Pages website in that environment requires standalone licenses or capacity add-ons for accessing respective resources.

Refer this docs for more details on Environment Groups.

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