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Convert environments between Production and Sandbox | Power Platform Admin Center [Quick Tip]

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Syndicated from - https://d365demystified.com/2020/09/05/convert-environments-between-production-and-sandbox-power-platform-admin-center-quick-tip/

In most scenarios, you might need to either –

  1. Convert from Production to Sandbox or
  2. Convert from Sandbox to Production

Converting from Production to Sandbox

  1. Navigate to Power Platform Admin Center’s environments section – https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/environments
    Select the environment you want to convert (you can even navigate inside this environment)
  2. You’ll be asked for confirmation. It states that any services will be unavailable during this conversion.
  3. Process initiated. It takes a few minutes.
  4. In Progress.
  5. Since there’s no refresh button to show you it’s completed, you’ll have to check back in a few minutes in the same link as above – https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/environments
    You’ll find that the conversion must’ve been completed by now.


    Similarly, the opposite holds true while converting from Sandbox to Production! Hope this quick tip helps!

Here are some more Admin/PowerPlatform posts you might want to check out –

  1. Create new Sandbox and copy Production over to it in PowerPlatform Admin Center
  2. New ‘Capacity’ analytics on PowerPlatform Admin Center
  3. Create new CDS Environment and Database quickly from PowerApps Admin Center
  4. CDS For Apps Analytics instead of Organization Insights. Power Platform Admin Center

Thank you!


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  • urklnme Profile Picture urklnme 439
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    Convert environments between Production and Sandbox | Power Platform Admin Center [Quick Tip]
    From Microsoft:
     
    Changing the state of the environment does not change whether or not a solution becomes managed or unmanaged.
     
    for my problem, (I copied PROD to Sandbox... oops
     
    From Microsoft:
    Once a solution is in a managed state in the sandbox environment, there is no converting it back to unmanaged.
    an alternative:
     
     - restore the sandbox environment to the state it was in before you copied over it from production
     - export the unmanaged solutions from your sandbox environment as unmanaged
     - copy the production environment back over the sandbox environment
     - in the now-copied-over sandbox environment, you can delete the managed solutions that you want (please note you may be blocked due to dependencies)
     - You can then re-import the unmanaged solutions back into the sandbox environment that you wish to maintain.
     

     
  • urklnme Profile Picture urklnme 439
    Posted at
    Convert environments between Production and Sandbox | Power Platform Admin Center [Quick Tip]
    The internet is chocked full of where to find the convert to sandbox button.  There seems to be little info regarding the state of solutions and components afterwards.
     
    do you know if solutions and the components in them are managed or unmanaged after converting?
     
    Anyone?