What is Administrative experiences

Microsoft Power Platform has a rich set of administrative experiences that can be used to administer the different aspects of your solution. From the Power Platform admin center, you can create new environments or manage security. From the maker portals you can manage Microsoft Dataverse. Depending on what you want to do, there’s a targeted administrative experience for it. Let’s examine the many different experiences available.

Microsoft Power Platform admin center

The Power Platform admin center (Https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com) is the primary administrative experience for the Microsoft Power Platform. The portal allows administrators to manage their environments and configure many of the primary settings for Power Apps, Power Automate, and customer engagement apps for Dynamics 365.

In the Power Platform admin center, settings are grouped into broad categories and are accessed by selecting the link on the left-hand side of the portal. These categories are:

• Home: Provides overall information, such as if there are any services disruptions, etc. Different cards can be added to better personalize this screen based on your needs.
• Environments: This section lists all the environments in this tenant. This includes Microsoft Dataverse environments and other environments such as Dataverse for Teams environments.
• Analytics: This section provides analytical details about Microsoft Power Platform such as Dataverse analytics, Power Automate Flow Statistics, and Power Apps details.
• Billing: The billing center contains details related to user licenses.
• Settings: This section lets you review and manage settings at a tenant level, such as being able to control who can create and manage the different types of environments available.
• Resources: This section is where you can view capacity statistics for your tenant and manage and install features related to Dynamics 365 applications.
• Help + Support: This section is where you can create new support requests and manage any existing requests previously submitted.
• Data integration: This section lets you create or add predefined connections and monitor these connections between Microsoft Dataverse and other data stores like Salesforce or SQL Server.
• Data: This section is where you can manage the different data sources, on-premises data gateways, and virtual network data gateways associated with this tenant.
• Policies: This section is where you can manage some of the different data security policies and other security features, such as the Customer Lockbox and tenant isolation.
• Admin Centers: Provides access to the different admin centers that can impact Microsoft Power Platform solutions such as the Microsoft 365 admin center, Azure active directory, and more.