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Module 1: Power Platform Overview

Lesson 3: Practice Lab – Set up

environment
Scenario
You are a functional consultant for your organization Contoso. You have been asked to prepare an
environment for a proof of concept your company is building for Fabrikam. You will be preparing two
environments; one that has only Common Data Model core entities and another that has the Dynamics
365 for Sales application installed.

Important Note: This lab will provide you with an actual Office 365 tenant and licenses for the Power
platform applications you will be using in this course. You will only be provided with one tenant for the
practice labs in this course. The settings and actions you take within this tenant do not roll-back or
reset. Whereas the virtual machine you are provided with does reset each time you close the lab
session. What’s more, Office 365 is evolving all the time. The instructions in this document may be
different from what you experience in your actual Office 365 tenant. It is also possible to experience a
delay of several minutes before the virtual machine has network connectivity to begin the labs.

Exercise 1 - Acquire Tenant Information and Connect

Note: If you have already completed a practice recently, the virtual machine might pick up where you
left off and you will not need to login again. In that case you can skip ahead to exercise two and resume.

Task 1 – Connect to the Power platform administration portal

1. On Virtual machine MB200-Dynamics_Lab, sign in as Admin with the password Pa55w.rd if you
are not already logged in.
2. Outside the VM in the online lab interface click Files and choose D365 Credentials. This will
allocate an Office 365 tenant for you to use in these labs. It will display the admin email and
password for your tenant. You should copy this information to notepad or similar for your
reference.
3. In MB200-Dynamics_Lab launch Microsoft Edge from the taskbar. By default, the browser opens
Office 365. Use the O365 credentials you just acquired in the previous step to login.
4. Navigate in the browser to the Power platform admin portal at
https://admin.Powerplatform.microsoft.com .

Exercise 2 – Create a Power platform environment

In this exercise, you will be creating a new environment with just the “core” Common Data Model
entities configured.

Task 1 – Create an environment

1. Click either Show All or Admin Centers to expand Admin Centers and select PowerApps.
2. Click New Environment in the upper right corner.
3. Enter Practice for Name, select your Region, select Trial, and click Create Environment.

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4. Click Create Database.
5. Select USD for Currency, select English for Language, check the Include Sample Apps and Data
checkbox, and click Create Database.
It will take few minutes to create the environment. You may proceed to exercise three while the
environment is being created.

Exercise 3 – Configure a Dynamics 365 Application

In this exercise, you will be making another new environment, one that has the Dynamics 365 for Sales
app installed.

Task 1 – Create a Dynamics 365 environment

1. Go back to https://admin.Powerplatform.microsoft.com
2. Expand Admin Centers and select Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement.
3. Select Sales and enter SalesPractice for URL if available or enter a different URL.
4. Click Configure.

It will take few minutes to create the environment. You may proceed to exercise four while the
environment is being created.

Exercise 4 – Review Settings and Configure

In this exercise, you will be reviewing settings, enabling an additional currency, and auditing.

Task 1 – Verify CDS has finished provisioning

1. Go to https://admin.Power platform.microsoft.com expand Admin Center and select
PowerApps.
2. Locate the Practice environment you created previously.
3. Your environment was successfully created if you see (orgxxxxxx) added to the end of your
environment name, if not wait for the environment to be created.

Task 2 – Explore the settings

1. Go back to https://admin.Powerplatform.microsoft.com and select Environments.
2. Select the Practice environment by clicking on its name when it is underlined and click Settings
in the upper right-hand corner.
3. Explore the different areas in Settings that you are interested in but do not make any changes.

Task 3 – Enable an additional currency

1. Locate the Business section of the Settings and click Currencies.
2. Click New.
3. Click on the Currency Code lookup.
4. Select Germany Euro and click Add.
5. Enter 0.88 for Currency Conversion and click Save and Close.
6. You should see both USD and EUR listed in your Currencies.
7. Close the currencies tab. Do not close the Settings tab.

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Task 4 – Enable auditing
1. Locate the Product section of the Settings and click Features.
2. Locate the Auditing section and turn on Audit Entities.
3. Click Save.

Exercise 5 – Explore the environments

In this exercise, you will be exploring the environments you created and explore them.

Task 1 – Explore the Practice environment

1. Navigate to https://web.powerapps.com/
2. Make sure you are in the Practice environment.
3. Select Apps.
4. You should see the sample applications.
5. Click the Asset Checkout sample application.
6. The Asset Checkout application will load.
7. Explore and familiarize yourself with the application.

Task 2 – Explore the Dynamics 365 environment

1. Go back to https://web.powerapps.com/
2. Make sure you are not in the default or practice environments.
3. Select Apps.
4. Click on the Sales application.
5. Navigate to Settings | Data Management.
6. Click Sample Data.
7. Click Install Sample Data.
8. Wait for the installation to start and click Close.

9. Close the Sales application.

10. Click to open the Sales Hub application.
11. The Sales Hub application will load.
12. Explore and familiarize yourself with the application.