Custom Power Platform Environment and Security Roles for Team Members

Ask System Administrator to Enable Data Access for Custom Apps

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?

Answers

Explanations

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A. B. C. D.

Correct Answer: 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 scenario provided, the team members have been assigned a predefined security role in a newly created Power Platform environment. The role allows the team members to create custom Power Apps, Power Automate flows, and connections. However, they are unable to access the data. In this scenario, it seems that the team members require access to the data in order to perform their tasks effectively. Therefore, the best course of action would be to ask the System Administrator to change the team's security role to a role that allows them to access the data.

Out of the given answer options, the most suitable choice would be to ask the System Administrator to change the team's role to Environment Maker. The Environment Maker role allows users to perform all the tasks that the predefined security role provides, along with additional privileges. Specifically, an Environment Maker has the ability to manage the environment's resources, such as creating and modifying entities, fields, and forms, as well as creating and managing security roles and users. Additionally, an Environment Maker can access data in the environment, which is required for the team members to perform their tasks effectively.

Therefore, option B - "To change the team's role to Environment Maker" would be the correct choice to ask the System Administrator to do in this scenario. It provides the team members with the necessary privileges to access the data, and perform their tasks effectively.