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Setting up a new tenant

Once you use the above link to, you’ll be taken to the Setup page like any other Dynamics trials you must’ve signed-up for –

Fill in an email on which you would want to receive subscription communication email.
Then, click Next.

In the next step, if the email address doesn’t exist ()-

Next, under Tell us about yourself section, enter the basic details.

Once you fill in these details, click Next. You’ll be asked to enter phone on which you’ll receive the OTP to authenticate

Enter code and proceed.
In case you want to change the domain, you can do so before finalizing. Else, you can directly click on Next.

And once this is finalized, you can click on Save and it’ll be locked.
So in case you changed, then click on Next post that.

In the final step, you’ll see the below. Once the info is correct, click on Get Started and you’ll be taken to M365 Admin Portal.

Creating a Dataverse Environment

Now, you can create a Power Apps Dataverse environment –

Go to https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/ and you can click on New.

Now, you can set the name of the environment.
Note that the default type is set to Sandbox [I’ll tell you why this will cause an issue]

In case you proceed to create a Sandbox type

You’ll end up having this error which needs at least 1GB space.

That’s why you can go back and change the Type to Trial (Subscription-based).
Also, notice that the Database will be created.

Then, you can proceed. Also, notice that I’m also deploying sample data. Hence, Power Apps based Apps will be setup with demo data and not the Dynamics 365 Apps.

Then, provisioning will start.

In a few moments, the environment will be created and you can navigate to it.

Select the environment and click on Open Environment.

And the environment with sample apps and data will open up!

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Thank you!

To get the most important things out of the way, this can be done only within the first 7 Days.

Deleted Environment

At times, you want to delete an environment you don’t need. But you feel you do need it back. Deleting an environment from the Power Platform Admin Center will Soft Delete it and you can get it back within the first 7 days only.

Here’s some info by Microsoft on that: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/backup-restore-environments#how-long-are-my-manualon-demand-backups-and-system-backups-retained

Here’s what we can do within the first 7 days to get it back using PowerShell!

Get PowerShell Support for PowerApps

Before we are able to Run PowerShell directly to recover, you’ll need to get the support for PowerApps in your PowerShell first.

Refer this full Microsoft Documentation for full details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/powerapps-powershell#power-apps-cmdlets-for-administrators-preview

Open PowerShell and remember to Run it as as Administrator.
Here’s how you can install the capabilities

And then

Here are the 2 commands which I used in the screenshots above in PowerShell. Below is the screenshot I took from Microsoft Docs so that you can visualize how the commands look

Install-Module -Name Microsoft.PowerApps.Administration.PowerShell
Install-Module -Name Microsoft.PowerApps.PowerShell -AllowClobber

or if you don’t have Admin Access, below code can be used in PowerShell

Save-Module -Name Microsoft.PowerApps.Administration.PowerShell -Path
Import-Module -Name Microsoft.PowerApps.Administration.PowerShell
Save-Module -Name Microsoft.PowerApps.PowerShell -Path
Import-Module -Name Microsoft.PowerApps.PowerShell

4. Now, let’s say you are all set to execute your recovery process.

Recovery of Environment

Assuming you have completed the above steps, you can now proceed towards recovering the environment.

Now, in PowerShell, run the below command “Get-AdminPowerAppSoftDeletedEnvironment“
You’ll be directed to a Login screen. Enter environment credentials there.
You’ll get the Deleted environments’s details as below. In my case, only 1 Deleted environment was retrieved

Note the first line i.e. EnvironmentName. Copy that GUID
Next, run the below command after you copied the GUID –
Recover-AdminPowerAppEnvironment -EnvironmentName 35545668-80c2-4d88-811d-b698bb1bcf59 -WaitUntilFinished $true
Once completed, you won’t see any message but the cursor will be on the new line ready. And some details about the success of the operation.
And in the Admin Center, the environment will be recovered.

Hope this helps!!

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