How do I recover a recently deleted environment?

You can recover a recently deleted environment by using the Power Platform admin center or the Recover-AdminPowerAppEnvironment Power Apps cmdlet. The standard soft-delete period is seven days. The exception is a production environment that has Dynamics 365 applications, which remains available for recovery for up to 28 days. For details, see How can I restore a deleted environment?

Note

Depending on the environment type, you might need sufficient storage capacity to recover an environment. To review available capacity, see Microsoft Dataverse storage capacity.

For information about why environments can be marked for deletion and how environment backups work, see:

Power Platform admin center

An administrator can recover a recently deleted environment by following these steps:

Sign in to the Power Platform admin center.
In the navigation pane, select Manage.
In the Manage pane, select Environments.
Select Recently deleted environments.
Select the environment that you want to recover, and then select Recover.

Recovery can take several hours. During this period, the environment remains visible in the deleted environments list. When recovery is complete, the environment reappears on the Environments page.

PowerShell

An administrator can recover a recently deleted environment by using the following PowerShell cmdlet.

## List soft-deleted environments
Get-AdminPowerAppSoftDeletedEnvironment
 
## Attempt a recover operation on a soft-deleted environment
Recover-AdminPowerAppEnvironment -EnvironmentName $environmentName -WaitUntilFinished $true

To learn more about using PowerShell cmdlets for environments, see Power Apps cmdlets for administrators.

Next steps after recovering an environment

After the environment returns to an active state, validate its workloads before returning it to normal use. Except for solution-aware cloud flows, the following checks don't imply that recovery changes these resources.

Solution-aware cloud flows: Recovery disables cloud flows that are included in solutions. Review dependencies, enable child flows before parent flows, and then turn on the flows that should resume.
Connections and connection references: Test the connections used by apps and flows. Reauthorize, update, or recreate connections and connection references as needed if credentials, owners, endpoints, or permissions changed while the environment was deleted.
Application users and integrations: Confirm that application users are enabled, have the required Dataverse security roles, and use valid service principal credentials. Test custom connectors, gateways, webhooks, plug-ins, and other external integrations.
Apps and other workloads: Test model-driven apps, canvas apps, Power Pages sites, background processes, server-side synchronization, and business-critical workloads before returning the environment to normal use. Review environment variables and environment-specific URLs or settings.

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Last updated on 2026-09-01