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Hi!

 

Is there an image or a list of components in the documentation somewhere that shows what is part of a Power Platform Environment and what lives "outside" but is still administered per environment (and where/how that information is stored)? An example of what I found confusing is Connections. I can create a connection in an environment, but it is not overwritten (which is in contrast with most other environment-related components) when I restore a copy from another environment. But when I reset the environment, my connections are deleted. Is that the intentional behaviour, and where can I get information on why this (to me) inconsistent behaviour is the way it is? I also noticed that cloud flows, even though over-written by the environment copy, keeps their run flow history from before the restore was executed. Where/how is the cloud flow history stored? Obviously it cannot be within the Power Platform environment.

 

I am mainly looking for clear, non-ambiguous, documentation, but I'll take any information that helps me understand where the boundaries are and what is going on here.

 

Best regards,

Henrik Svensson

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  • v-wenjuan-msft Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @hsvensson ,

     

    Refer to following document for overview of all kinds of environments:

    Environments overview - Power Platform | Microsoft Learn

    Sandbox environments - Power Platform | Microsoft Learn

    About trial environments: standard and subscription-based - Power Platform | Microsoft Learn

     

    To be brief, you can consider environments as a container. You can store different components in different environments and give access to different users. Meanwhile environments have different types, determine which one to use based on your business requirements.

     

    Community Support Team _ Wenjuan Zou

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it.

     

  • hsvensson Profile Picture
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    Hi!

     

    Thank you for the reply. I was perhaps a bit unclear. I would like to know exactly what is going on regarding Connections for example, since they are not copied during a restore (iirc) but they still only apply to one single environment and they are also deleted when resetting an environment, and not deleted when I restore from another environment. It would be helpful to know whether this is intended to work this way or if it is something that is probably going to change. In combination with the flow history surviving a restore (where the flow is removed, followed by an import of a solution containing the same flow) there really seems to be an environment-specific "layer" on top of the environment, and I would like to know more about how this extra layer is supposed to work.

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