Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform Admin Center portal

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Administrators of the Microsoft Power Platform often need to monitor their environments and perform different tasks, such as creating and maintaining environments, enabling, and disabling features, and configuring security. For example, you may want to create a new environment that developers can use to create new functionality that will eventually be pushed out to your users.

The Power Platform Admin Center provides a central location for administrators to perform common functions such as managing their environments. It's also used to control different settings for Power Apps, Power Automate, and the Dynamics 365 apps such as Dynamics 365 Sales, or Dynamics 365 Customer Service.

When looking to administer Microsoft Dataverse, the Power Platform Admin Center portal provides multiple features you can use, from designing security models to monitoring and managing Dataverse capacity.

Settings are grouped into the following broad categories. They're accessible by selecting the link on the left-hand side of the portal.

  • Environments – Allows you to view, create, and manage the environments in your tenant.

  • Analytics – Provides you with multiple analytics and key metrics from Microsoft Power Platform items such as Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps, and Power Automate.

  • Resources - This section provides links to useful parts of Microsoft Power Platform. You can view and add capacity to your environments, examine Dynamics 365 Apps, as well information about your Portals.

  • Help + support - This section gives you an easy approach to receiving support from Microsoft for any needs you may have.

  • Data integration - This section allows you to create or add predefined connections, and then monitor these connections between Dataverse and other data sources, like Salesforce or SQL Server.

  • Data - This section provides access to the on-premises data gateway, which acts as a bridge, providing a quick and secure data transfer between on-premises data and Power BI, Power Automate, Logic Apps, and Power Apps.

  • Policies - This section allows you set up policies to restrict which data connectors can be used with Dataverse to limit what data can flow into or out of Dataverse tables.

  • Admin Centers - This section gives links to other admin centers for Microsoft Power Platform.

Microsoft Power Platform admin center on the Environments tab showing the
default environment.

You can access the Power Platform Admin Center directly by navigating to https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com and then signing in with a user that has administrative credentials.