What is Managed Environments

Managing applications at an enterprise level can be challenging. It can be hard to control who has access to different applications and ensure the data in those applications is secure. To help resolve this challenge, Microsoft Power Platform includes Managed Environments. Managed Environments is a suite of premium level capabilities admins can use to manage Power Platform at scale. They provide more control over the environment with less effort, and more insights related to what is happening. Any Power Platform environment can be a Managed Environment. Once the administrator enables the Managed Environment, other features become available that administrators can configure. These features cover different elements across Power Platform.

Key features available in a Managed Environment include:

• Limit sharing: Allows administrators to limit how broadly users can share canvas apps. For example, you can prevent a user from sharing a canvas app with the entire organization.
• Weekly usage insights: Every week analytics are delivered to your mailbox. These analytics include information about your top apps, your most impactful makers, and details about inactive resources that you can safely clean up.
• Data policies: Data policies define the consumer connectors that data can be shared with. They ensure data is managed in a uniform manner across your organization. Additionally, they also prevent important business data from being accidentally published to connectors like social media sites.
• Pipelines in Power Platform: Power Platform administrators can create one or more pipelines, associate any number of environments, then share access with those individuals that administers or run pipelines.
• Solution checker: Solution checker in Managed Environments is used to enforce rich static analysis checks on your solutions against a set of best practice rules and identify problematic patterns.