What are Managed Environments?
Managed Environments are a set of capabilities for Power Platform administrators. They give an organisation increased control, deeper insight, reduced management effort and a number of additional unlocked features, all configured at the environment level.
When to use them
Managed Environments are designed for scaling Power Platform use across an organisation. As the number of makers, apps and flows grows, they provide the governance and visibility that keep the platform healthy rather than sprawling into shadow IT.
Key features
- Limit sharing
- Weekly usage insights
- Data policies
- Pipelines in Power Platform
- Maker welcome content
- Solution checker enforcement
- IP firewall
- IP cookie binding
- Customer Managed Key (CMK)
- Customer Lockbox
- Extended backup
- Data loss prevention for desktop flows
- Export of data to Azure Application Insights
- Catalog in Power Platform
- Default environment routing
- App description generation with Copilot
Managed Environments work best as part of a deliberate Center of Excellence. For how that fits together, see our Power Platform implementation page, which covers environment strategy, data loss prevention and the operating model that keeps citizen development governed at scale.