Power Platform environments are containers designed to store, manage, and share an organization's business data, apps, and flows. The standard Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) protocol involves using separate environments for development, testing, and production. This strategy effectively isolates work-in-progress from the final, user-facing production applications. Since all environments exist within a single Microsoft 365/Azure AD tenant, users can access the different environments they have permissions for with a single login account. This approach directly satisfies both company requirements: preventing development from impacting production and maintaining a single user identity.

A. separate Microsoft Azure Storage Blobs: Azure Storage Blobs are a data storage service and are not the primary mechanism for isolating entire application lifecycles (apps, flows, data models) in Power Platform.

B. separate connectors: Connectors are used to link data sources to apps and flows. While different connection references are used in different environments, separating connectors alone does not provide the required ALM structure.

C. separate tenants: Using separate tenants would isolate the ALM stages, but it would violate the requirement for a single login account per user, as each tenant requires a distinct user identity.

1. Microsoft Power Platform documentation

"Environments overview." Microsoft Learn. Accessed May 2024.

Section: "Why use environments?"

Content: This section explicitly states that environments are used to "Separate app development in-progress from apps that have been released for users to consume (ALM)." It also clarifies that "All environments are created under an Azure AD tenant

and its resources are only accessible to users within that tenant

" which supports the single-login requirement.

2. Microsoft Power Platform documentation

"Application lifecycle management (ALM) with Microsoft Power Platform." Microsoft Learn. Accessed May 2024.

Section: "Environments"

Content: This document states

"Power Platform environments are used as containers to separate apps and other components during development

testing

and production. Having separate development

test

and production environments is a key part of developing any app

flow

or other component."

3. Microsoft Power Platform documentation

"Establishing an environment strategy." Microsoft Learn. Accessed May 2024.

Section: "Environment strategy examples"

Content: This guide provides examples of ALM strategies

recommending the creation of distinct Development

Test

and Production environments to manage the application lifecycle effectively within a single tenant.