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Overview of the Power Platform admin center

The Power Platform admin center provides a unified portal for administrators to manage environments and settings for Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and some Dynamics 365 apps.

Learn more about the Power Platform admin center in the following sections:

Find feature areas of the new admin center

The new Power Platform admin center provides the following capabilities.

Feature area Description Learn more
Actions View recommendations about your Power Platform implementation. The recommendations enhance security, reliability, and overall health of your implementation. Use the actions page
Manage Manage your environments, environment groups, and tenant settings.
Monitor Measure and improve operational health metrics of resources built or deployed in Power Platform, such as apps. Monitor page (preview)
Security Run your organizational workloads in the safest way possible with a wide set of security features available. Security page overview
Deployment The Deployment page in the Power Platform admin center provides a streamlined experience to help administrators navigate the complexities of managing Power Platform application lifecycle management (ALM) workloads, including managing pipelines deployments at enterprise scale. Admins have visibility to all the deployments in their tenant and can approve deployment requests and troubleshoot issues. Admin deployment page (preview)
Licensing View a summary of environments in your tenant requiring licensing attention and license consumption for your environments. View license consumption
Copilot Access educational resources, track usage, and access governance controls about Copilot features. Manage Copilot
Support

Get a list of self-help solutions or create a support ticket for technical support.

Note: Although you administer Power BI using the Power BI admin portal, you request support for Power BI through support in the Power Platform admin center.

Get Help + Support

Find feature areas of the classic admin center

The classic Power Platform admin center provides the following capabilities.

Feature area Description Learn more
Environments View, create, and manage your environments. Select an environment to see details and manage its setting. Manage environment settings
Environment groups Similar to folders, environment groups are designed to help administrators organize their flat list of environments into structured groups based on different criteria, such as business unit, project, and location Environment groups
Advisor The actions page is your guide to personalized recommendations to optimize your Power Platform tenant. Advisor analyzes all Managed Environments and the apps in these environments within your Power Platform tenant. Advisor offers solutions to enhance security, reliability, and overall health. Use the actions page
Security Run your organizational workloads in the safest way possible with a wide set of security features available. Security overview
Analytics Get a detailed view of key metrics for Microsoft Power Platform apps. Microsoft Dataverse analytics
Billing View a summary of environments in your tenant requiring licensing attention and license consumption for your environments. Business subscription and billing documentation and View license consumption
Settings Manage settings for all environments in your tenant. Tenant settings
Copilot Access educational resources, track usage, and access governance controls about Copilot features. Manage Copilot
Resources View and manage resources in your tenant and environments. View and manage resources
Help + support

Get a list of self-help solutions or create a support ticket for technical support.

Note: Although you administer Power BI using the Power BI admin portal, you request support for Power BI through Help + support in the Power Platform admin center.

Get Help + Support
Data integration The Data Integrator (for Admins) is a point-to-point integration service used to integrate data into Dataverse. Integrate data into Dataverse
Data Manage your cloud and data gateway connections. Set up data transfer between on-premises data and cloud services
Policies View and manage various policies for your tenant and environments.

Understand the user interface of the new admin center

The new and improved Power Platform admin center is designed with an outcome-driven approach, where all functionality is intuitively organized in pages based on administrative tasks. The new admin center isn't just task-oriented, it also helps you achieve specific outcomes and goals.

Screenshot of the new and improved Power Platform admin center.

Legend:

  1. Navigation pane
  2. Settings icon
  3. Admin center links
  4. Power Platform page

1. Navigation pane

Find what you need with the left navigation pane. You can easily navigate to Power Platform pages that help you deploy, manage, and secure you Power Platform implementation.

2. Settings icon

Select the gear icon to perform tasks such as managing tenant settings, view your session details, and change the theme of the user interface.

Easily navigate to related admin centers, such as the Microsoft 365 admin center, Microsoft Entra admin center, and Power BI admin portal.

4. Power Platform page

Complete administrative functions on each Power Platform page.

Understand the user interface of the classic admin center

The classic Power Platform admin center is available and pages are organized according to functions.

Screenshot of the classic Power Platform admin center.

Legend:

  1. Navigation pane
  2. Settings icon
  3. Power Platform page

1. Navigation pane

Find what you need with the left navigation pane. You can easily navigate to Power Platform pages that help you deploy, manage, and secure you Power Platform implementation.

2. Settings icon

Select the gear icon to perform tasks such as managing tenant settings, view your session details, and change the theme of the user interface.

3. Power Platform page

Complete administrative functions on each Power Platform page.

Training: Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals