No Dataverse Database in an Environment with a Microsoft 365 Developer Account
✨ Rachel Irabor
DevRel | Microsoft MVP | Global Public Speaker | Technology Evangelist | Ethical AI Advocate
My name is Rachel Irabor, and I'm a Power Platform and Dynamics 365 CRM developer. I love to document what I have learned or encountered.
Working with Microsoft 365 Developer Account in a Power Apps environment and having issues with creating Model-driven Apps, Dataverse Table?
Most times, this affects us by ending up using a trial environment to build a chatbot on Power Virtual Agents that expires after 30 days and deletes everything in that trial environment.
In this blog post, I will show you how to create a Developer environment before you do this confirm that you have created a Power Apps community plan in your Microsoft 365 Developer Account. Check out this Youtube video on how to do this
The Step by step process
Step 1
Go to Power Apps portal
Click on the setting's icon at the right hand side of your screen
Step 2
At the right hand side, click on Admin center
Step 3
At the left-hand side of your screen, click on Environment
Step 4
Click on + New
Step 5
At the right-hand side of your screen.
- Give your environment a name
- Select the region closest to you
- Type, select Developer
- Click on Next
Step 6
Next step, Add Dataverse
- Select your preferred language
- Select your preferred currency
- Click on Yes to Deploy sample apps and data
- Click on Save
The new environment showing with the status reading preparing
Step 7
Reload the page
The status has changed to Ready
Step 8
Go back to the Power Apps portals
Change it from its current environment to the new environment.
- At the right hand of your screen, click on Environment
- Select the new environment you created
When you try to change to your new environment and the environment is not displaying yet. Give it a few minutes it will come up.
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