What is Power Platform admin center?
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Oct 8, 2023 4:53 PM

What is Power Platform admin center?

by HubSite 365 about Microsoft

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Learn how Microsoft's Power Platform admin center provides IT with a unified management experience.

The Comprehensive Solution for Managing and Securing PowerApps In the dynamic world of business, organizations are constantly seeking innovative solutions to streamline operations, enhance productivity, and gain a competitive edge. PowerApps, a Microsoft cloud-based platform, has emerged as a powerful tool to create custom business applications that address specific needs and foster organizational success. As PowerApps deployments grow, so does the need for effective administrative controls to manage and secure these critical applications.
 

Introducing PowerApps Admin Center: A Centralized Hub for Empowered Admins PowerApps Admin Center is designed to empower admins to effectively govern and protect PowerApps deployments across their organizations. This centralized hub provides admins with a comprehensive set of tools to manage environments, enforce security policies, and safeguard sensitive data.

What ist The Power Platform Admin Center?

The Power Platform Admin Center is a centralized platform for managing and configuring Microsoft Power Platform environments. It allows administrators to provision new environments, manage users and roles, monitor usage, and configure settings for Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Dynamics 365 apps. To access the Power Platform Admin Center, you can use the following URL:

 

Once you have entered the URL, you will be prompted to sign in with your Microsoft account. If you are an administrator for multiple Power Platform tenants, you will need to select the tenant that you want to manage. Here are some of the things that you can do in the Power Platform Admin Center:

  • Create and manage environments: You can provision new environments, delete old environments, and modify the settings for existing environments.
  • Manage users and roles: You can add, remove, and manage users and assign them to roles. You can also set up security policies to control access to Power Platform resources.
  • Monitor usage: You can track the usage of Power Platform resources, such as the number of apps created, flows run, and virtual agents created.
  • Configure settings: You can configure a variety of settings for Power Platform, such as the data storage location, the default language, and the security settings.

How to access power platform admin center?

You need to have global administrator or power plaform admin role for your organization's Office 365 account. Then open the Admin Center direct with this link:

 

▶︎ https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com
 

If you can't find the Power Platform Admin Center, it might be due to the specific configuration or permissions set within your organization. In such cases, it's advisable to reach out to someone with higher administrative privileges in your organization, such as a Global Administrator.

Power Platform admin center for Dataverse Features

 
The Power Platform admin center is a web-based interface that allows you to manage your Dataverse environments and databases. You can use the Power Platform admin center to do the following:
  • Create and manage environments: An environment is a virtual instance of the Power Platform that can be used to run Power Apps and Power Automate solutions.
  • Add and manage databases: A database is a container for data in Dataverse.
  • Assign security roles: You can assign security roles to users to control their permissions in Dataverse.
  • View and manage backup and restore history for your Dataverse databases.
  • View and manage usage metrics for your Dataverse databases.
  • Access and manage your Dataverse teams.
  • Manage your Dataverse API access tokens.
 
 

Seamless Environment Management:

PowerApps Admin Center enables admins to effortlessly create, manage, and share environments, the sandboxes where PowerApps apps, data, and flows reside. This ensures that applications are isolated and protected, upholding data integrity and compliance. Admins can tailor environments to specific roles, security requirements, and target audiences, ensuring that users have access to the resources they need, while minimizing the risk of unauthorized access or data breaches.

 

Granular Security Enforcement:

PowerApps Admin Center provides robust security controls to grant access to authorized users based on their roles and responsibilities. Admins can define permissions for environments and databases, assigning predefined roles like "Database owner" and "System user" or creating custom roles to achieve granular control. This ensures that sensitive data remains protected, while users have the appropriate level of access to perform their tasks effectively.

 

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Policies:

Data protection is paramount in today's data-driven business landscape. PowerApps Admin Center empowers admins to implement data loss prevention (DLP) policies to safeguard sensitive business information. By defining data groups and restricting the use of connectors associated with these groups within PowerApps apps, admins can prevent the inadvertent or intentional sharing of confidential data

Accessibility and Simplicity:

Admins can access PowerApps Admin Center directly from powerapps.com, making it readily accessible and convenient to manage PowerApps deployments. The intuitive interface simplifies the administration process, allowing admins to navigate seamlessly and effectively perform their tasks

 

 

PowerApps Admin Center: A Catalyst for Business Agility and Innovation

By leveraging the comprehensive capabilities of PowerApps Admin Center, organizations can effectively manage, secure, and govern their PowerApps deployments, safeguarding sensitive data while ensuring compliance and driving business agility and innovation. With empowered admins at the helm, organizations can unlock the true potential of PowerApps to transform their operations and achieve their strategic goals.