Terminology

First of all, we have to establish an understanding of some important terminology when it comes to Power Platform. Those terms will be used throughout the rest of the book.

Tenant

A tenant defines the boundaries of everything an organization is doing with Microsoft. It can contain Azure components, Power Platform components, SharePoint, and a lot more.

Multiple tenants

Some organizations do have multiple tenants. This can have several reasons, such as separation for dev, test, and prod, or because parts of the company were acquired, for example.

Environment

In Power Platform, an environment is a space where one can store, manage, and share data, as well as business logic in the form of, for example, apps, flows, or chatbots.

There can be several environments within a Microsoft tenant.

Organizations can choose to have different environments for different countries, Apps, departments, or stages in a development process. We will learn more about environments...