Microsoft Power Platform Environment Security Role - Configuration Guide

What to Ask Your System Administrator for Custom Power Apps, Power Automate Flows, and Connections

Question

Your System Administrator created a new Power Platform environment and assigned your team members a predefined security role.

Members of your team can create custom Power Apps, Power Automate flows, and connections.

They can also distribute the apps, but they cannot access the data.

What should you ask your System Administrator to do?

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Explanations

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A. B. C. D.

Correct Answers: A

Microsoft Dataverse environment with the provisioned database provides several predefined security roles: System Administrator - has full permission to the environment, including managing the security roles.

Environment Maker - can create new resources, like apps, flows, connections, gateways, share the apps with the users in an organization.

But this role does not have privileges to access the environment's data.

System Customizer - has full permissions to customize the environment, but they can only view records for the tables they create.

Basic User - can run an app in the environment and access the data they create in non-custom tables.

Delegate - can impersonate another user's role.

Your System Administrator assigned the Environment Maker security role to your team.

You need to ask your System Administrator to change (or to add) the role to System Customizer.Option D is incorrect because the Environment Admin can perform all administrative tasks in the environment without a provisioned Dataverse database.

This role does not exist in the environments with the Dataverse database.

For more information about the Dataverse predefined security roles, please visit the below URLs:

Based on the given scenario, the team members have been assigned a predefined security role that allows them to create custom Power Apps, Power Automate flows, and connections. However, they are not able to access data, which means they do not have the necessary permissions to read or modify the data within the Power Platform environment.

To address this issue, the best course of action would be to ask the System Administrator to change the team's security role to a role that provides data access permissions. Out of the four options provided, the most appropriate option would be to change the team's role to "Environment Maker."

Here's why:

  1. System Customizer: This role allows the user to customize and configure the system settings and entities, but it does not provide data access permissions. Therefore, changing the team's role to System Customizer would not solve the problem.

  2. Environment Maker: This role allows the user to create, read, write, and modify data within the environment, as well as manage solutions and settings. This means that changing the team's role to Environment Maker would give them the necessary permissions to access and modify the data within the Power Platform environment.

  3. Basic User: This role only allows the user to read data within the environment, but not create or modify it. Therefore, changing the team's role to Basic User would not provide them with the necessary permissions to create custom Power Apps, Power Automate flows, and connections.

  4. Environment Admin: This role allows the user to manage the environment, including managing security roles and users. However, it does not provide data access permissions. Therefore, changing the team's role to Environment Admin would not solve the problem.

In summary, the best option is to ask the System Administrator to change the team's role to Environment Maker to provide the necessary permissions for creating custom Power Apps, Power Automate flows, connections, and data access.