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Concept of Tenant, Organization, Instance and Environment

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Hello,

The concepts of Tenant, Organization, Instance, and Environment always make me confused. Can I say Instance = Environment?
Can you clarify every concept or introduce articles for my reference. Thanks.

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    StackRadius 70 on at
    RE: Concept of Tenant, Organization, Instance and Environment

    Hi,

    If org is another name for tenant, how does a mult-tenant deployment is contained within a global identifier.

    Is it not correct to understand that 1 Org > many tenants > many environments to each tenant.

    Is this correct? or What would be global container for a multi-tenant deployment?

    Considerations for choosing multiple environments or tenants - Power Platform | Microsoft Docs

    regards

    Sing

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Concept of Tenant, Organization, Instance and Environment

    Great question. You will find the answer in one of my environmental articles here. Also, if you are interested, read my other posts.

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    Adrian Begovich 21,009 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at
    RE: Concept of Tenant, Organization, Instance and Environment

    Hi FOR365,

    This article explains the cause and resolution of the "You are not a member of this organization You (<username>) do not belong to the organization <organization name>. Verify the organization name and try to sign in again." error. However, I do not know why that particular terminology is in the error message.

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    FOR365 135 on at
    RE: Concept of Tenant, Organization, Instance and Environment

    Hi Adrian,

    Thank you for your detail explanation.

    Now I understand most of the concepts, but one error message I have encountered, said "You are not a member of this organization" as showing in the picture below. "DevOps" is one of my Environment I have setup. Why they call it an organization?

    0753.InkedCaptureyyy_5F00_LI.jpg

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    Adrian Begovich 21,009 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at
    RE: Concept of Tenant, Organization, Instance and Environment

    Hi FOR365,

    Environment is the new name for instances. An environment is a space to store, manage, and share your company's business data, apps, and flows. You can learn about creating and managing environments in the Power Platform admin center here.

    Organization is another name for tenant, as well as the name of an entity. A tenant is the account you create in the Microsoft Online Services environment (such as Office 365) when you sign up for a subscription. A tenant contains uniquely identified domains, users, security groups, and subscriptions. A tenant can include one or more environments; however, an environment is always associated with a single tenant. You can read more about tenants here.

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