Managing Power Platform environments

Environments are containers of Power Platform components. They include all your solution components, such as applications, flows, and data. They also serve as a medium to isolate these components, whether for security reasons or to have independent development environments.

There are different types of environments. Each serves a particular functionality as explained next:

• Production: As the name implies, this environment is the one your end users will use when executing your solutions.
• Sandbox: This type of environment is a testing ground for your solutions. You can reset it to start from scratch.
• Trial: You can use these environments for rapid feature testing as they get deleted after 30 days. There is also a subscription-based type focused on enterprise delivery. More info here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/power-platform/admin/trial-environments
• Developer: This type of environment is the one that is created when a...