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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?

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ChrisPiasecki 6,422 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @prashant1380,

Flows and Canvas Apps will count towards your default environment storage. You can view the usage in Power Platform admin center under Resources > Capacity, then click the Details icon next to the default environment name.
Users need to have a Power Apps or Power Automate standalone license to be added into a Sandbox/Production environment.
You can provision Apps/Flows without a Dataverse database, but only Power Apps / Power Automate standalone licensed users will be able to access the environment.
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prashant1380 26 on at

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Thank you for your swift response. I have few additional queries:
If default environment storage is used for flows and canvas apps then how a non-default environment (Prod) without dataverse can be used to create flows and apps? Where the data of these apps and flows will be stored if there is no dataverse in prod env?
Is it so that Power Apps and Power Automate stand alone license is required for non-default environment use even if there are no premium features used in apps/flows?

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ChrisPiasecki 6,422 Most Valuable Professional on at

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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.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/create-environment#create-an-environment-without-a-database

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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