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How to know that created environment is CDS or Dynamics

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Hello Everyone,

Apart from checking the entities list, can anyone help me that how can I know that my existing environment is Dataverse OR Dynamics?
Is there any setting or something else which I can check?

Thanks in Advance!

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    Wahaj Rashid Profile Picture
    Wahaj Rashid 11,319 on at
    RE: How to know that created environment is CDS or Dynamics

    Hi,

    As Lu mentioned, there is flag or property which tells if it is a Dataverse Only environment. You can look at the Apps installed in environment to see if it has Dynamics 365 enabled.

    Furthermore, you can use a scheme to name your environments to easily distinguish between a normal and D365 enabled environment.

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    LuHao 40,872 on at
    RE: How to know that created environment is CDS or Dynamics

    Hi partner,

    The Dynamics environment is based on CDS, so CDS is the "base".

    Now, when creating a new CDS environment from Power Platform, you can select "Enable Dynamics 365 apps". So, we can create a new CDS environment to replicate the Dynamics environment.

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    Currently, there is no obvious setting to distinguish whether it is the D365 environment or the created CDS environment.

    If "Enable Dynamics 365 apps" is selected No when creating a CDS environment, then no D365 apps can be added to this CDS environment. This is a method used to distinguish D365 environment and CDS environment.

    This is a similar question for reference: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Dataverse/Difference-between-Dynamics-instance-and-a-Common-Data-Service/td-p/519805

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    prt33k 6,907 on at
    RE: How to know that created environment is CDS or Dynamics

    When you say Dynamics, what are you referring to?

    Dynamics has a various apps and all come under CDS(now Dataverse).

    You can create a power platform environment without a database too - and that will appear under the admin center with No Database.

    Thanks,

    Prateek

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