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Provisioning Power Platform Environments: Question on Business Units

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 I’m trying to understand this in BUs.

 

  • Security roles and users are associated with a business unit. You must assign every user to one (and only one) business unit. When creating a security role, you can choose any business unit according to your business needs or use the root business unit if there are no specific requirements.

Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/create-edit-business-units

 

 

I read that but  I can have the same user in different BUs.  I can have User1 in ChildBU1 and in ChildBU2.

 

 

 

 

 
Here you can see that ChildBU1 and ChildBU2 are in different teams using different SGs.

 

 

 

My question is why does it say that I can only assign a user to one BU?  I understand that a user shouldn’t be assigned different roles.  Rationally that makes sense but it looks like we can assign the same user a different role in the same environment if the same user is in a different SG.

 

Or am I totally off the mark?

 
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    11manish Profile Picture
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    You're not completely off the mark. The documentation is specifically referring to the user's home Business Unit, and that remains one and only one.
     
    What you're likely observing is that the same user belongs to multiple teams (including Microsoft Entra Security Group teams) that reside in different Business
     
    Units.
     
    Those team memberships allow the user to inherit additional security roles and access, but they do not change the user's Business Unit.
     
    In other words, a user can participate in multiple teams across different BUs and receive permissions from those teams, while still being assigned to a single
     
    Business Unit in Dataverse.
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    224 Season of Giving Solutions 2025 on at
    @11manish  Thank you!  "Home" BU that clears it up

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