Power Platform governance 02 - About limiting environment creation

It’s not the users' responsibility to think of environments and therefore a setup of Power Platform. That is the work of the low-code strategy team.

I often advocate to let users work with the tools we give them. Yet the creation of new environments is not necessarily a tool and it affects the whole tenant. Creating lots and lots of new environments with databases can eat up your capacity and impact the performance of the entire tenant. It’s not the users' responsibility to think of environments and therefore a setup of Power Platform. That is the work of the low-code strategy team.

• Why should we care?
• Capacity allocations
• How to change the environment creation settings
• Options with PowerShell

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https://www.michaelroth42.com/post/2022-05-24-think-about-limiting-environment-creation/

Microsoft documentation

Control who can create and manage environments in the Power Platform admin center

With the new provisioning model, those with the correct licenses can create an environment as long as 1GB of capacity is available. To restrict environment creation and management to admins, do the following:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/control-environment-creation

Plan and manage license and capacity allocations

Do you have questions about how to plan licensing and capacity for your organization's or team's applications or processes? Watch the following session to learn about the current and incoming capabilities of the platform and how you can take advantage and choose the right plans for your organization.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/adoption/capacity-and-licenses

PowerShell support for Power Apps

With PowerShell cmdlets for app creators and administrators, you can automate many of the monitoring and management tasks that are only possible manually today in Power Apps.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/powerapps-powershell

PowerShell for PowerApps Download

https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Microsoft.PowerApps.Administration.PowerShell/2.0.147