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What is the difference between Security groups and Teams in Power Platform admin center? Both Security groups and Teams uses Entra security groups so what's the difference? What parts of the environment can be restricted with Security groups? If the user belongs to a Security group that is assigned to an environment, can the user view and develop Power Apps in that environment or also administer the environment from PPAC?

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scalca 243 Moderator on at

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Teams is a Power Platform construct where you can define what kind of permissions they have
either Owner, Access or connected to a Entra ID Security Group or Office Group

Each Environment has a default Team where every user having access to the Environment will be added to.

I'd recommend you this microsoft documentation to better understand the security concept in Dataverse

Security concepts in Microsoft Dataverse - Power Platform | Microsoft Learn

whenever you create a new environment you can restrict access to it by selecting a security group.

With Teams you can further tailor specific requirements on that environment (read access to specific table, granting a group of people dedicated Security Role etc.) by granting permissions to a group instead of directly assigning them to a user.

I'd manage security groups and assignment of users to groups in Entra ID

assignment of permissions I'd use Teams in Dataverse and link them to a security group.

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AT-21100544-0 4 on at

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Thank you @scalca for your reply and sorry for the late reply.

It's still a bit unclear to me which actions make an environment visible to users in Power Platform admin center.

For example if I have a developer environment and I want to restrict it to only be visible to developers. Is it the User's security role behind environment settings that makes the environment visible? Or should the user be added to a 'Teams' in the developer environment to make it visible?

Thank you!

Br,

Arttu

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ankit_singhal 590 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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In simple terms:

Security groups control access at the environment level. If a user is added to a security group, they can see the environment, but they won’t automatically have access to apps or data.

To access apps or data, the user needs to be assigned security roles. These roles can be granted either directly to the user or through Teams.

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Ram Prakash Duraisamy 5,593 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @AT-21100544-0

To Give Simple Understanding

1. Security Group : We can provide access to ENVIRONMENT Level, once provided the user can able to access the environment like Tables, etc

2. Teams Access : In that Environment consider we have powerapps etc we need to share these items dynamically to the users in the environment.

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