Automatic environment cleanup

Operational processes for datacenters periodically identify environments for tenants that do not have an active subscription. The automatic environment cleanup process starts after all commerce-based licenses acquired for a tenant reach a deprovisioned state. Environments within such a tenant are marked for deactivation and eventual deletion. You can renew or purchase a subscription for the tenant to return environments to active status.

Tip

If you get notifications about exceeding your entitled storage capacity, see Changes for exceeding storage capacity entitlements for actions you can take.

For information on automatic cleanup of Microsoft Dataverse for Teams environments, see Automatic deletion of inactive Microsoft Dataverse for Teams environments.

To see the status of your environments:

1. Sign in as an admin to the Power Platform admin center.
2. Select Environments.
3. Look for environments with Inactive status.

Scope

Only production and sandbox environments are affected by the automatic cleanup.

Admin notification because of environment cleanup

Here's what you can expect to receive if you, as an admin or someone in your organization, has created an environment that is marked for clean up.

• 14 days prior to disabling the environment, an email is sent to all admins in your organization.
• 7 days prior to disabling the environment, an email is sent to all admins in your organization.
• 1 day prior to disabling the environment, an email is sent to all admins in your organization.
• If no action is taken, the environment will be deleted 10 days after the final email.

Actions you can take to prevent environment disabling and deletion

Anytime prior to the environment deletion you can purchase licenses. Be sure to purchase enough licenses and/or capacity to cover all the production environments in your tenant. See Licensing overview for Microsoft Power Platform. Automatic deletion of inactive Microsoft Dataverse for Teams environments (preview) Within 24 hours after the licenses and capacity are applied to your tenant, the environment is automatically enabled. If your environment has already been deleted, it is possible to recover it within a limited window of time. See Recover environment.

Important

Please allow ample time to take appropriate action. Your organization may have a central admin and purchasing group and might be purchasing through Microsoft partners. Please plan accordingly.

See also

Backup and restore environments
Licensing overview for Microsoft Power Platform
Microsoft Power Apps and Power Automate Licensing Guide