Environment strategy
The right environments, in the right region, with the right people in them.
29checks
In short
Environment strategy is one of the 11 core modules in The Governor, Ustrema's governance app for Microsoft Power Platform, Copilot Studio and agents. It runs 29 checks every week to answer one question: Is the default environment quietly running production? Every failing check becomes a finding with an owner, closed with Managed Environments, Environment groups, Environment routing, Power Platform admin center.
The question it answers
Is the default environment quietly running production?
What it measures
Each of the 29 checks looks for patterns like these, in every environment, every week:
- Assets and makers in the default environment
- Who can create trial and production environments
- Production environments not set up as Managed
- Unmanaged developer environments, which Microsoft deletes from 15 January 2027
- Dataverse for Teams environments, suspended from 15 September 2027
What you get
Once the findings are closed and the controls are in place, your tenant has:
- An environment model with naming and groups
- Creation rights restricted to admins
- Apps, flows and agents moved off retiring environments before Microsoft's dates
Microsoft services it works with
The Governor checks that these Microsoft controls are on, and our experts configure them:
- Managed Environments
- Environment groups
- Environment routing
- Power Platform admin center
Preview in the free Core
Default environment exposure and open environment creation
Questions about this module
Is Environment strategy included in the platform licence?
Yes. All 11 core modules, Environment strategy included, come with one platform licence per tenant per year. There are no per-user fees. Extension modules are added separately.
How often does The Governor check environment strategy?
Every week. The scan runs inside your own tenant, measures all 29 checks again and shows what closed, what is still open and what came back since the last scan.
Which Microsoft services does it work with?
Managed Environments, Environment groups, Environment routing, Power Platform admin center. The Governor checks that they are switched on and configured, and Ustrema consultants set them up when they are not.
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