How To Create Multiple Power Platform Developer Environments for Free

Do you want to try out the premium capabilities of the Power Platform without having to worry about the licensing? Maybe you're new to the Power Platform and want to kick the tires and see what it's capable of. Maybe you have the Power Platform in your organization, but you don't have access to a premium license, and you want to see what this Dataverse thing is all about and try out model driven Power Apps or maybe even create custom connectors and test out ALM capabilities.

In this video you'll learn about the Power Apps Dev Plan and the new Dataverse Developer environments. The dev plan and Dataverse environments give anyone the ability to test out premium capabilities like custom connectors, premium connectors and the ability to backup, restore and move solutions across environments without needing a premium license. You'll see just how powerful these new Developer plan environments are and how to administer and govern them.

I'll walk you through the steps needed to get a developer environment setup regardless if you already have M365 access or you need an M365 tenant to get started.

00:00 - Intro
00:26 - Where do I start?
00:50 - Developer Plan Requirements
01:27 - Getting the Developer Plan if you don't have access to M365
03:49 - Creating additional developer environments
05:24 - Locking down developer environment creation
06:29 - Capacity
07:01 - What do you get with the environments?
09:07 - Can I build cloud flows with the dev plan?
09:23 - What doesn't the developer environment include?

[jray]

Thank you April…This really helps me out! You thought of multiple scenarios where someone was trying to get an account and one fit me. Thanks for your work

[dougydoe]

Finally!!!! This is great and thanks for highlighting it. Appreciated.

[badiualex]

provisioned with Dataverse so that we can test all the functionalities ? being premium environments that means we can also test the new deployment pipelines feature for ALM?

[daxteoh]

hi april, if my company has Power Platform license already, do i really need this for my DEV environment? Or simply i can use sandbox/production type as my dedicated DEV environment. I'm worry if using sandbox/production as dev environment may not have some features that is in Developer Environment Type.

[markjacobson]

Thanks April, I never knew about the M365 developer program that allowes you to then subsequently set up a PowerApp develope plan on that developer tenant.
In order to get others to help me with testing my developments, do I need to add them as users to the M365 tenant and then give them access to the test powerapp environment and then also share the specific app with them? or is it more complicated than that?
Thanks again for this amazing insight

[banihas]

Is there any other way to do hands on learning of the Power Platform now that this dev program is gone?

[ruedelpercebe]

Thanks a lot April, it's very useful! is there any way to create a "Production" environment with this Dev Plan? (I'd like to test PP Pipelines and that requires a Production environment)

[akshaynm]

Thanks a lot April for sharing the info.!!

[ericasierra]

I was able to follow all the steps, then when it asked me for my Country of Origin on the Community Sign up page, the drop down box is greyed out and no options will appear. I tried typing and..nothing. Therefore, I'm stuck. Any advice?

[Learnpowerplatform]

Getting error while phone verification saying that it did not pass security checks although it is new mobile number

[DanielWeikert]

can you elaborate on the 3 environments? Is there a feature to move test to prod and so on. How do they interact. Thanks and br

[andriescorneliusnienaber]

Watched this video again and today I set everything up. Great video, can I use PowerBI with this account? Do you have a course/s?

[ianalexandertorres]

Hi April!it means that i can use premium connectors on the environments for free? includeding the AI builder?

[sphesibiya]

She really just gave us the tech and then immediately showed the opps how to counter us

[SereyaTiampati]

Registration for the M365 DEV Subscription is currently closed

[MrDashingAshish]

Is free developer environment still free