Hi,
We are using Office 365 seeded licensing to use Power Apps in our organization and as part of this default environment is in use. I want to know:
- What is stored in Default environment if our users are not eligible to use Dataverse with seeded license?
- If we have a available storage capacity, then can we create additional production environment without Dataverse and allow some of the users (with seeded license) to use this new production environment insteald of using Default environment? I am aware that new environment creation consumes 1 GB of storage.
- Can we use this new Production environment without dataverse to create apps and flows like we can do in Default environment or will there be any limitations or to use this type of environment we need to have the separate stand alone plans for Power Apps or Power Automate?
Hi @prashant1380,
Regardless of whether you provision a Dataverse database, the environment consume 1GB of capacity (see reference below). I am assuming that Dataverse database is still created in the background to store your apps and flows, but all the other Dataverse stuff is either not provisioned or just not counted towards your capacity, which means more flows/apps can be created within that first 1GB.
In the reference below, it mentions that licensed users will be added to the environment if no security group is specified. I'd suggest to create a sandbox environment and confirm what users have been added, whether it's all premium users or also your M365 seeded users. That will answer your question for certain. Then you can just simply delete the environment afterward.
Also, keep in mind the premium license is needed if you just want your users to access the environment to author Power Apps / Power Automate flows. You can still share Power Apps with non-premium users such that they can use it as long as the connectors in the app and in any flows tied to the app are using standard connectors only.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/control-user-access
Hope that clarified a bit.
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Thank you for your swift response. I have few additional queries:
Hi @prashant1380,
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