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Identifying an Org as CDS or Dynamics

Hey Team

Power Platform Admin Center doesn't have a way to differentiate in UI wether an enviornments is CDS (PowerApps only) or Dynamics (Dynamics+PowerApps), which often causes problems when trying to deploy Dynamics into CDS orgs, or if managing a large number of organizations, checking for compliance:

In this situation, PowerAutomate is our greatest ally: Using the "list environments as Admin" command,

we'll retrieve a JSON that contains details for all environments where we have permissions.

This JSON contains some valuable info:

ON this scenario, we can see that environments CDSTest has the value "Standard" for property schemaType. Checking the documentation on OrganizationDetail ComplexType (Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM) | Microsoft Learn, we can see that this is for CDS, NonDynamics environments.

IN the same way, we can see that TestImport environment has a value of "Full" for schemaType, which means this would be a Dynamics 365 Apps environment

Hope this helps with your Governance and reporting for Dataverse & Dynamics!

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Dynamics 365 general

Hi,

You're absolutely right — the Power Platform Admin Center UI doesn't clearly differentiate between CDS-only environments (Power Apps only) and full Dynamics 365 environments. This can cause confusion, especially when deploying Dynamics solutions or managing compliance across multiple orgs.

In this case, Power Automate is a great workaround. Using the "List environments as Admin" action, you can retrieve a JSON payload that includes the schemaType property for each environment.

From experience:

If schemaType = "Standard" → it's a CDS-only environment (Power Apps, no Dynamics apps).
If schemaType = "Full" → it's a Dynamics 365 Apps environment.

You can use this logic to build governance reports or automate deployment decisions. The OrganizationDetail complex type in the Microsoft documentation confirms this behavior.

Hope this helps others dealing with large-scale environment management.

Best regards,
Daniele

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