Using Power Automate, how can I get a list of Dataverse Teams within each Power Platform environment in my tenant, including their Security Roles and Members (AAD or direct)? I do have the Microsoft Centre of Excellence installed, so we could leverage tables within.

ChatGPT said:

To get a list of Dataverse Teams, their Security Roles, and Members (AAD or direct) across Power Platform environments using Power Automate, and since you have the CoE Starter Kit installed, here’s the easiest and most accurate approach using both CoE tables and Dataverse API s:

🔍 What You’ll Need

✅ Step-by-Step Flow Outline

🟦 1. Loop Through Environments

Use the CoE Environment table (Environment):

🟪 2. For Each Environment, List Teams

Use Dataverse connector (make sure the connection uses the environment being looped):

Use a condition to filter only Owner Teams or AAD Groups (teamtype = 0 or 2):

🟨 3. For Each Team, Get Members

Option 1 – If CoE is syncing AAD users and team memberships:

Option 2 – If not using CoE AAD sync:

🟩 4. Get Security Roles per Team

🔄 Sample Table Mapping (CoE):

Table

Description

teams

Dataverse teams

mspp_environment

Environments

mspp_aaduser

Synced AAD Users

mspp_aaduserteams

AAD User-Team memberships

role

Security roles

principalobjectaccess / teamroles_association

Security Role assignments

⚡ Alternative: Use HTTP (Advanced, but full access)

If Power Automate isn’t giving full access to internal tables like teammembership, use the HTTP with Azure AD connector:

  1. Register an app in Azure AD with delegated permissions to Dataverse.

  2. Use the connector to call:

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GET https://<env>.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.2/teams(<teamid>)/members

  1. To get team roles:

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GET https://<env>.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.2/teams(<teamid>)/teamroles_association

🧠 Tips

Would you like a sample Power Automate flow design or JSON of the loop?

4o

You said:

OK, let's start with step 1, Firstly I will add a Recurrence trigger, what is the next item to add to the flow?

ChatGPT said:

Perfect — you're starting with a Recurrence trigger. Here's the next step:

✅ Step 2: List All Environments from the CoE Starter Kit

You’ll want to get all environments from the CoE "Environment" table (mspp_environment), which holds metadata about all Power Platform environments.

🟦 Add Action:

Name: List rows
Connector: Dataverse
Table name: Environments (mspp_environment)

💡 Optional Filter:

To skip managed (Microsoft) environments, use an OData filter:

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mspp_ismanaged eq false

This will help keep the focus on user-created or admin-managed environments.

📝 Summary So Far

Step

Action

1

Recurrence

2

Dataverse → List rows from mspp_environment (filter mspp_ismanaged eq false)

Let me know when you've added that or if you want help setting up the Apply to each next.

4o

You said:

in this case the table is named admin_environments

ChatGPT said:

Nice — yep, in the CoE Starter Kit, the main Environments table is usually called admin_environments (logical name: environment). Thanks for pointing that out.

✅ Updated Step 2: List All Environments

🔹 Add Action:

🔸 Optional: Filter Out Managed Environments

You can use this OData filter:

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admin_ismanaged eq false

This avoids including Microsoft-managed (default) environments.

🧱 Next Step (Preview)

Once you've added that, your next move will be to:

Let me know once you've added the List rows and we’ll move to looping through them.

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4o

You said:

For the previous list Rows action, I have the select columns set to : admin_displayname, statecode, admin_environmentid,admin_environmentcdsinstanceurl I also have Filter rows to statecode eq Active Is there a way to only return distinct admin_displayname?

ChatGPT said:

Great setup — your selected columns and the filter (statecode eq Active) are spot on.

🔍 Can You Return Distinct admin_displayname?

Unfortunately, Dataverse’s native List rows action in Power Automate does not support a distinct query directly. That’s a known limitation — it always returns full rows, and you can’t apply SQL-style GROUP BY or SELECT DISTINCT natively.

✅ Workaround in Power Automate

You can remove duplicates manually after pulling all records. Here's how:

🛠 Steps:

  1. Add a Select action after List rows:

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{
  "DisplayName": item()?['admin_displayname']
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  1. Add a Union trick to remove duplicates:

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union(body('Select'), body('Select'))

This removes duplicates because union() returns unique records.

  1. Optional: Rename the output to something like DistinctDisplayNames for clarity.

✅ Summary of Flow Steps So Far

Step

Action

1

Recurrence

2

List rows → admin_environments (Filter: statecode eq Active)

3

Select → Map only admin_displayname

4

Compose → union() to remove duplicates

Let me know if you'd like help mapping these steps out in your flow or adding the loop to process each unique environment URL next.

4o

You said:

Looks like the table already handles the distinct, Ie Only lists the environment names once, Unless it had been deleted. How do I update the list rows action to only show admin_environmentdeletedon with empty values?

ChatGPT said:

Perfect — you're right! The admin_environments table in the CoE Starter Kit already stores only one row per environment, and keeps deleted environments by populating the admin_environmentdeletedon column with a datetime. So to get only active, non-deleted environments, you'll want to filter where:

✅ Updated Filter for List rows Action

Use this OData filter in Filter rows:

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statecode eq 0 and admin_environmentdeletedon eq null

📝 Explanation:

Bonus – Field Values Reference

Field

Meaning

statecode

0 = Active, 1 = Inactive

admin_environmentdeletedon

Null = Not deleted, Has value = Deleted

Let me know once you've got that in, and we can move on to the Apply to each loop!

4o

You said:

great, lets move onto the loop

ChatGPT said:

Awesome! Now that you've filtered for active, non-deleted environments, let's loop through each one.

✅ Step 3: Add “Apply to each” Loop

🔹 Action:

🧱 Inside the Loop: Prep for Next Steps

Let’s prepare to get Teams per environment.

For each environment, you’ll need its Dataverse API URL to query the Teams table.

From the environment row, get:

You can now use this admin_environmentcdsinstanceurl in one of two ways:

🧩 Option A: Use Dataverse connector dynamically (✔️ easiest if few environments)

Dataverse connector doesn’t support dynamic environment selection directly inside a loop, unless you manually create a connection per environment (not ideal at scale).

🧩 Option B: Use HTTP with Azure AD (Best for multi-environment automation)

This lets you call the Dataverse Web API across any environment dynamically.

We can proceed with either, but assuming you want easy, here’s a quick test:

✅ Inside the Loop: Add a Compose (to preview instance URL)

Just to confirm we’re pulling the environment URL correctly:

➕ Add Compose:

This confirms you can get the URL to call against.

Once we confirm that’s working, we can:

Let me know which direction you want to go — full automation with HTTP, or a manual environment connection-based approach?

4o

You said:

since we are a large tenant, let's go with option B

ChatGPT said:

Perfect — going with Option B: HTTP with Azure AD is the smart choice for large tenants with many environments. This gives you full dynamic access across environments without needing to create connectors per environment.

✅ Step 4: Setup for HTTP with Azure AD

🔐 One-Time Setup (You may already have this from CoE kit)

1. Azure App Registration

You need a registered Azure AD app with permissions to Dataverse:

2. Client Credentials

You'll need:

If your org already has this for CoE, you can reuse that client ID and secret.

✅ Step 5: Add "HTTP with Azure AD" Action Inside Loop

⚠️ Requires premium connector – check licensing

🔹 Action:

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https://<org>.crm.dynamics.com
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/api/data/v9.2/teams?$select=name,teamid,teamtype

So the full request setup inside the loop would look like:

Field

Value

Method

GET

Base Resource URL

items('Apply_to_each')?['admin_environmentcdsinstanceurl']

Relative URI

/api/data/v9.2/teams?$select=name,teamid,teamtype

Authentication

OAuth 2.0

Audience

Same as Base Resource URL

✅ Step 6: Filter Team Types (Optional)

You can filter to specific team types via query string:

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/api/data/v9.2/teams?$select=name,teamid,teamtype&$filter=teamtype eq 0 or teamtype eq 2

✅ Output Handling

Once you get the response:

Want me to help generate the full HTTP action + Parse JSON setup?

If you give me a sample environment URL, I can simulate the full request and give you:

Let’s keep it moving!

4o

You said:

to be clear, The add HTTP action is inside the Apply to each action?

ChatGPT said:

Yes — you are 100% correct. ✅

The HTTP with Azure AD action should go inside the Apply to each loop because you're querying each environment’s Dataverse instance dynamically using its own admin_environmentcdsinstanceurl.

🔄 Flow Structure So Far

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  └── List Rows (admin_environments) 
         └─ Filter: statecode eq 0 and admin_environmentdeletedon eq null
  └── Apply to each (value from List Rows)
        └── Compose (Get instance URL: admin_environmentcdsinstanceurl)
        └── HTTP with Azure AD
               Method: GET
               Base Resource URL: items('Apply_to_each')?['admin_environmentcdsinstanceurl']
               Relative URI: /api/data/v9.2/teams?$select=name,teamid,teamtype

This way, you're calling the Dataverse Web API for each environment independently.

Let me know when you're ready to:

4o

You said:

I believe the new action is now Invoke an HTTP request, with the option or HTTP With Microsoft Entra ID and HTTP with Microsoft Entra ID (preauthorized), or I could also just select HTTP?

ChatGPT said:

​You're correct that in Power Automate, the action previously known as "HTTP with Azure AD" has been updated and is now presented with several options:​

Here's a breakdown of these options to help you choose the most suitable one for your scenario:

  1. HTTP with Microsoft Entra ID (preauthorized):

Microsoft Learn

  1. HTTP with Microsoft Entra ID:

Microsoft Learn

  1. HTTP:

Recommendation for Your Scenario:

Given that you're working within a large tenant and aiming to dynamically interact with multiple Power Platform environments, the HTTP with Microsoft Entra ID (preauthorized) connector is likely the most straightforward option. It simplifies the authentication process for Microsoft services like Dataverse, as it comes with the necessary permissions preconfigured.​

However, it's important to verify that the specific Dataverse API s you intend to use are accessible through this connector. If you encounter limitations or require access to API s beyond the preauthorized set, you may need to use the HTTP with Microsoft Entra ID connector. This would involve registering your own application in Entra ID, assigning the appropriate permissions, and handling the authentication flow accordingly.​

Next Steps:

By starting with the preauthorized connector, you can leverage its simplicity and ease of use. If you encounter limitations, transitioning to the standard connector will provide the additional capabilities required for your specific scenario.​

Sources

4o

You said:

What do I set the Authentication type to? Also it doesn't look like I can add dynamic values to this action

ChatGPT said:

You're correct that in Power Automate, when using the "Invoke an HTTP request" action, selecting the appropriate authentication type is crucial for successfully interacting with your Dataverse environments. Let's address both of your concerns:

1. Setting the Authentication Type

For accessing Dataverse resources across multiple environments dynamically, the recommended approach is to use the "HTTP with Microsoft Entra ID" connector. This connector allows for secure, authenticated requests to Microsoft services like Dataverse.

Steps to Set the Authentication Type:

This setup ensures that your flow can authenticate and interact with Dataverse API s securely.​Yannick Reekmans

2. Using Dynamic Values in the Action

In Power Automate, certain fields within actions may not natively support dynamic content directly through the UI. However, you can work around this limitation by:​

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@{items('Apply_to_each')?['admin_environmentcdsinstanceurl']}

This expression retrieves the admin_environmentcdsinstanceurl for the current item in your loop.​

By implementing these approaches, you can dynamically set values in fields that do not directly support dynamic content through the UI.​

Note: Always ensure that the dynamic values you use are correctly formatted and accessible within the scope of your flow to prevent runtime errors.​

If you encounter any specific challenges or errors while setting this up, feel free to provide more details, and I can offer more targeted assistance.

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4o

You said:


These are the authentication type options

ChatGPT said:

Thanks for the screenshot — this helps a lot!

You're using the “HTTP with Microsoft Entra ID (preauthorized)” connector, and here's the important bit:

🔐 Best Option for Your Case

✅ Select:

Authentication type → Log in with Microsoft Entra ID

This is the only one that supports secure access to Dataverse via delegated permissions (i.e., your own credentials, not a separate app registration). It works great if:

⚠️ Limitations

Unfortunately, the "HTTP with Microsoft Entra ID (preauthorized)" connector does not support dynamic environment switching in the Base Resource URL. That’s why you can’t insert dynamic values there — it's a known limitation.

✅ What You Should Do Instead

To support dynamic environment URLs like you’re trying to do, you'll need to use the:

🟦 "HTTP with Microsoft Entra ID" (NOT preauthorized)

You’ll register an Azure App once and use it across all environments.

🔧 Next Step

Do you:

  1. Want help setting up the App Registration in Entra ID and filling in the fields for HTTP with Entra ID?

  2. Or prefer a workaround that doesn't require app registration (less flexible, but simpler)?

Let me know how deep you want to go — happy to walk you through it step-by-step.

4o

You said:

what values to I set for the HTTP with Entra ID action?

ChatGPT said:

Perfect — let’s walk through exactly how to set up the “HTTP with Microsoft Entra ID” connector so you can dynamically call any Dataverse environment in your tenant. This is the correct choice when the preauthorized version doesn't support dynamic URLs.

✅ Prerequisites

You’ll need the following from an Azure App Registration:

If you haven’t created this yet, I can walk you through it too. But assuming you have these, here’s how to fill out the connector:

✅ Action: “Invoke an HTTP request” (Microsoft Entra ID)

Here’s how you configure each field:

🔐 Authentication Fields

Field

Value

Tenant ID

From your Azure AD (Entra) app registration

Client ID

From your registered app

Secret

Client Secret (copy it when you create it!)

Audience

https://<your-env>.crm.dynamics.com (← dynamic per environment)

For Audience, if calling environments dynamically, you’d use:

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@{items('Apply_to_each')?['admin_environmentcdsinstanceurl']}

(That will be your Base Resource URL and Audience)

🌐 Request Fields

Field

Value

Method

GET

Base Resource URL

@{items('Apply_to_each')?['admin_environmentcdsinstanceurl']}

Relative Path

/api/data/v9.2/teams?$select=teamid,name,teamtype

Headers

Content-Type: application/json (optional, for GET)

✅ Summary

Your setup will look like:

Setting

Example

Tenant ID

xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx

Client ID

Your registered app's ID

Secret

Your client secret

Audience

@{items('Apply_to_each')?['admin_environmentcdsinstanceurl']}

Base URL

Same as above

Relative Path

/api/data/v9.2/teams?$select=teamid,name,teamtype

🚧 Important

Would you like a quick guide on registering the app and setting API permissions in Entra ID (Azure AD)?

4o

You said:

When I look at the connector setup for HTTP with Microsoft Entra, I am required to put in a base resource URL and The app ID, this is hard coded in the connector, so I assume our approach won't work? unless you still have the workaround that doesn't require app registration (less flexible, but simpler)?

ChatGPT said:

You're absolutely right to flag this — the “HTTP with Microsoft Entra ID” connector forces you to hard code the Base Resource URL and Application (Client) ID when creating the connection, meaning:

🔴 You can’t dynamically swap environments at runtime, even with this connector.
This kills the "loop through environments with dynamic base URL" approach using HTTP connectors inside Power Automate.

🚧 TL;DR: Power Automate doesn't support dynamic HTTP with Auth across multiple environments natively.

So yes — that rules out our original approach unless we use one of these options:

✅ Option A: Workaround Using Azure Logic Apps

Logic Apps do let you create connections dynamically at runtime using ARM expressions. But that’s a bigger jump in complexity and may not be permitted depending on your environment.

✅ Option B: Reframe the Approach – Use CoE Tables Instead (Recommended for You)

Since you've got the CoE Starter Kit, it already pulls and stores a lot of the data we want, including:

Item

CoE Table

Teams

admin_teams

Team Members

admin_teammembership

Security Roles

admin_securityroleassignment (or similar depending on version)

Environments

admin_environments

Users

admin_user / admin_aaduser

This means you can build a Power Automate flow against CoE data only, and skip the API calls altogether.

✅ New Easy Approach (No HTTP needed!)

📄 Step-by-Step:

  1. Trigger: Recurrence

  2. List rows: admin_environments → Filter statecode eq 0 and admin_environmentdeletedon eq null

  3. List rows: admin_teams → Filter by admin_environment (GUID from step 2)

  4. For each team:

This gives you:

🚀 Advantages

✅ No HTTP or Entra app setup
✅ Uses data CoE is already syncing
✅ Fast to implement
✅ Easily extendable (to Excel, email, Dataverse output, etc.)

🔄 Next Step

Would you like help mocking up the CoE-based version of this flow, with:

Let’s build this the clean and supportable way 💪

4o

You said:

OK, option B

ChatGPT said:

Awesome — let’s go with Option B: Using the CoE tables — the cleanest, easiest, and most supportable approach inside your tenant.

We’ll build a Power Automate flow that pulls:

No HTTP. No app registration. Just CoE data.

✅ Flow Overview

🔁 Trigger: Recurrence

No inputs — just runs on a schedule (e.g., daily, weekly)

🔹 Step 1: Get Active Environments

➕ Action: List Rows

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statecode eq 0 and admin_environmentdeletedon eq null

🔁 Step 2: Loop Through Environments

➕ Action: Apply to each

Inside this loop:

🔹 Step 3: Get Teams for This Environment

➕ Action: List Rows

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_admin_environment_value eq @{items('Apply_to_each')?['admin_environmentid']}

Save this in a variable or loop through them directly depending on output format.

🔁 Step 4: Loop Through Teams

➕ Action: Apply to each (nested)

Inside this team loop:

🔹 Step 5: Get Team Members

➕ Action: List Rows

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_admin_team_value eq @{items('Apply_to_each_-_Team_Loop')?['admin_teamid']}

To get AAD or user info, you can then relate _admin_user_value or _admin_aaduser_value to either:

🔹 Step 6: Get Security Roles for the Team

➕ Action: List Rows

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_admin_principal_value eq @{items('Apply_to_each_-_Team_Loop')?['admin_teamid']}

To resolve the actual role name:

🧾 Output

You can build a record like this (compose/append to array/export):

Environment

Team Name

Team Type

Member Name

Role Name

Dev Env

Power Users

AAD Group

Alice Smith

Environment Maker

Dev Env

Power Users

AAD Group

Bob Jones

Environment Maker

✅ Summary of Tables

Table

Description

admin_environments

All environments

admin_teams

Teams in each environment

admin_teammembership

Links teams to users

admin_aaduser / admin_user

Actual user details

admin_securityroleassignment

Team → Role mappings

admin_securityrole

Role metadata (optional lookup)

⏭️ Next Step

Would you like me to help sketch the flow in plain language or provide the exact Power Automate expressions (OData, references) you'd use for each?

Or do you want the final output in Excel, Dataverse, or email summary format?

4o

You said:

OK, based on what we have done so far, I have the recurrence, the environment list rows and the apply to each, let's see the next steps in the loop

ChatGPT said:

Perfect — since you’ve got the Recurrence, List rows from admin_environments, and the Apply to each loop in place, we’ll now build the inside of the environment loop to pull the related Teams and then their Members and Security Roles.

✅ Inside the Environment Loop (Apply to each over admin_environments)

Here’s what to do next inside that loop.

🔹 Step 1: Get Teams for the Current Environment

➕ Action: List rows

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_admin_environment_value eq @{items('Apply_to_each')?['admin_environmentid']}
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admin_name, admin_teamtype, admin_teamid

🔁 Step 2: Apply to Each Team

➕ Action: Apply to each

📝 (Rename this loop as Apply to each - Team for clarity)

🔹 Step 3: Get Team Members

➕ Action: List rows

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_admin_team_value eq @{items('Apply_to_each_-_Team')?['admin_teamid']}
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_admin_user_value, _admin_aaduser_value

🧠 Tip:

🔹 Step 4: Get Security Roles Assigned to This Team

➕ Action: List rows

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_admin_principal_value eq @{items('Apply_to_each_-_Team')?['admin_teamid']}
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_admin_securityrole_value

➕ Optional: Enrich with Role Name

✅ Recap of Inside the Loops

You now have:

Data Pulled

Source Table

Environment

From outer loop item (admin_environments)

Team Info

admin_teams

Members

admin_teammembership

Member details (optional)

admin_user / admin_aaduser

Roles

admin_securityroleassignment

Role details (optional)

admin_securityrole

⏭️ Want to Format Output?

Next step would be to:

Let me know how you want to output the result — and I’ll give you that part next.

4o

You said:

I did forget to mention I am creating this flow in a different Environment, so I'm using List Rows from selected Environment, But I've also just realised I should be using the outputs from the original List rows for the Environment name in future List rows

ChatGPT said:

Ah, good catch — and yes, you're spot on again. Let’s clear this up so your flow stays reliable and doesn’t accidentally grab wrong or mismatched data.

✅ You're Using “List Rows from Selected Environment”

Since your flow is in a different environment than the CoE data lives in, you have to use the Dataverse (Legacy) or Dataverse (Current Environment) connector and point it to the correct source environment (the one where the CoE data resides).

That part is all good ✅.

🔄 Clarifying Field Usage – Use Values from the Original Environment Row

When you're pulling Teams, Members, or Role Assignments, you're doing that inside the loop of environments, so you need to:

👉 Reference the values from the current environment loop item.

Example: Getting Teams for That Environment

If your current action is inside an Apply to each called Apply_to_each_environment, your filter in List rows from selected environment on admin_teams should be:

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_admin_environment_value eq '@{items('Apply_to_each_environment')?['admin_environmentid']}'

This ensures you're filtering the admin_teams table by the actual GUID from the environment record that was returned in the first List rows.

Example: Storing/Showing the Environment Name

When you're building your output (CSV, array, email, etc.) and you want to include the environment name, make sure to use:

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@{items('Apply_to_each_environment')?['admin_displayname']}

So the right name shows up for each group of teams.

✅ Next Steps Suggestion:

You're now in a great position to do this:

  1. Continue using “List rows from selected environment” — just make sure each one is reading from the CoE source environment.

  2. Always use items('Apply_to_each_environment')?['fieldname'] to reference environment-specific details like admin_environmentid or admin_displayname.

Let me know if you want help building the data structure for export (e.g., array or table with environment + team + member + roles). You're basically on the home stretch!

4o

You said:

Ah of course, I still need to specify the CoE environment and correct table. as it hold the data for ALL environment, I was still in the mindset we needed to check these specific tables under each environment, Carry on

ChatGPT said:

Yes! You’ve just made the key realisation. 🙌

The CoE environment (where the CoE Starter Kit is installed) already collects and centralizes data about all environments in your tenant — so you don’t need to connect to each environment individually.

🧠 Shift in Thinking

You were originally thinking:

"Loop through environments → query each one for Teams, Members, Roles"

But with CoE already aggregating that data, the correct (and much easier) mindset is:

"Loop through CoE tables, filtering by environment ID"

✅ Adjusted Flow Strategy

So now the entire flow lives in your current environment, but queries only the CoE tables (which already contain info across environments).

Here’s the revised structure — simplified and scaleable:

🔁 Flow Structure (All in the CoE Environment)

🟧 Trigger: Recurrence

🟩 Step 1: List active environments

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statecode eq 0 and admin_environmentdeletedon eq null

🔁 Step 2: Apply to Each environment

Inside the loop:

🟦 Step 3: Get Teams for this environment

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_admin_environment_value eq @{items('Apply_to_each_environment')?['admin_environmentid']}

🔁 Step 4: Apply to each Team

Inside this team loop:

🟨 Step 5: Get Members of the Team

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_admin_team_value eq @{items('Apply_to_each_team')?['admin_teamid']}

🟪 Step 6: Get Team’s Security Roles

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_admin_principal_value eq @{items('Apply_to_each_team')?['admin_teamid']}

🧾 Optional: Append to Array for Reporting

Inside the innermost loop (for each member or role), append a record to a variable like:

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{
  "Environment": "@{items('Apply_to_each_environment')?['admin_displayname']}",
  "Team Name": "@{items('Apply_to_each_team')?['admin_name']}",
  "Team Type": "@{items('Apply_to_each_team')?['admin_teamtype']}",
  "Member Type": "@{if(empty(item()?['_admin_user_value']), 'AAD User', 'Dataverse User')}",
  "User ID": "@{coalesce(item()?['_admin_user_value'], item()?['_admin_aaduser_value'])}",
  "Security Role": "Add role lookup here if desired"
}

🚀 Next Options:

Let me know how you want to output this:

Happy to give you the finish line steps!

4o

You said:



I am looking for the admin_teammembership table, but these are the only ones that exist under the CoE Environment

ChatGPT said:

Thanks for the screenshot — this confirms the issue.

You're checking available tables in the CoE environment and admin_teammembership (or similar) isn't showing up, which likely means the CoE AAD sync flows are not configured or running fully, or you're looking at the wrong table name.

Let’s troubleshoot and get you what you need.

✅ What You Should Expect in CoE (if fully configured)

To track Dataverse Teams and their members, the CoE Starter Kit populates these core tables:

Logical Name

Display Name

admin_teams

Teams

admin_teammembership

Team Membership

admin_user

User

admin_aaduser

AAD User

🔍 Possibilities

1. ❌ Table not installed

It’s possible the CoE Starter Kit version you're using doesn't include admin_teammembership or hasn’t been updated.

2. ❌ AAD sync flows not running

The team membership and AAD user sync comes from CoE flows like:

If these aren't configured with proper permissions or are turned off, the data won't populate.

3. ❌ You’re looking at the wrong table display name

Sometimes the display name differs, and the table could be something like:

✅ What You Can Do Now

🔹 Option A: Use Teams and skip membership for now

If admin_teams is available, continue building the flow using just team metadata (e.g., what teams exist per environment). Membership can be added later when the sync flows are working.

🔹 Option B: Check if CoE sync flows are running

  1. Go to Power Automate > Solutions > CoE Starter Kit

  2. Look for flows named like:

  3. Open them and check:

✅ Next Step Recommendation

Let’s verify:

And optionally:

Let me know and I’ll help you close this loop quickly.

4o

You said:

the sync AAD team membership would be AAD teams right? I'm after the Specific Power Apps Environment created Teams to which you assign a security role, an Entra security group or user.

ChatGPT said:

Yes — and thank you for clarifying. You’re not looking for Microsoft 365/AAD Teams — you're after Dataverse Owner Teams created within each Power Platform environment, which can be:

These are the teams used for Power Apps security, not collaboration in Microsoft Teams.

✅ You Are 100% Right to Avoid the “AAD Teams” Table

AAD Teams or the "Sync AAD Group Members" flows refer to Microsoft 365 groups, not Dataverse Teams.
So that's not what you want.

✅ Here's What You Actually Need (Confirmed by CoE Kit Logic)

To get Dataverse Teams, Members, and Security Roles, the CoE uses:

1. admin_teams

2. admin_securityroleassignment

3. ❗ But… No admin_teammembership

The CoE does not store Dataverse team membership out of the box
👉 So you won’t find a table like admin_teammembership.

🧩 Why? Because Dataverse Team Members are not available via CoE flows by default

This is a known gap in the CoE kit. CoE flows don't include a sync for Dataverse team membership. The only memberships synced are:

But manual membership of Dataverse Owner Teams (the kind created in Power Apps environments) is not synced unless you build a custom sync using Dataverse Web API.

✅ What You Can Still Do Using CoE

You can still build a report showing:

Environment

Team Name

Team Type

Security Roles Assigned

Using:

🛠 If You Want Team Members (Optional Custom Step)

You would need to:

  1. Use the Dataverse Web API (/teams(<teamid>)/members)

  2. Use HTTP with Azure AD or PowerShell to loop through teams and extract members

Let me know if you want to build:

Let’s pick your preferred level of depth and finish it strong 💪

4o

You said:

Do you recall HTTP didn't work last time

ChatGPT said:

Yes — absolutely. I remember now: we tried the HTTP / HTTP with Entra ID connectors, but:

So yep — HTTP is off the table. We’re not going back there. ✅

✅ What We Can Do Right Now

Given that:

The best working option is:

🧩 Build a Report of:

Environment

Team Name

Team Type

Security Roles

This gives you visibility into all Dataverse Teams across environments, and what roles they’ve been granted — which is exactly what controls permissions.

🔧 Flow Summary: Environment → Teams → Roles (No HTTP)

🔁 For each admin_environment

✅ No HTTP.
✅ No cross-environment calls.
✅ Uses only CoE tables.

Would you like help wiring up that output (e.g., building an array or creating CSV/Excel/export)?
Or just want the expressions and flow shape to continue?

4o

You said:

The admin_team table exists for every environment, The table doesn't exist in the CoE Cor solution, rather it's in the Environment Default Solution so we would need to get this from ALL environments including the CoE

ChatGPT said:

Ahh — okay, that changes the game a bit again. Great observation 👏

You're absolutely right — let me summarize what you've just correctly nailed:

✅ Key Facts:

So we’re back to needing to query a table that lives in each environment — but we can’t use HTTP to dynamically call each.

🧠 Let's Reevaluate Realistically

Here are your viable options now, with HTTP ruled out:

✅ Option A: Use Manually Defined Connections per Environment (Scaleable if Reasonable Count)

You can:

❗Yes, it's manual to scale, but completely no-code and HTTP-free.

✅ Option B: Sync admin_team Table into CoE with Custom Flow (Recommended for Long Term)

You can:

This avoids the scaling problem and lets you report from a central dataset.

❌ Option C: HTTP — Rejected ✅

We’ve been here. No need to go in circles.

🔧 What I Recommend

Since you're working in a large tenant:

🔁 Option B is the cleanest:
✅ Each environment runs a flow (scheduled or admin-triggered)
✅ It writes admin_teams + environment info into a central CoE table
✅ You then run a single reporting flow from CoE

I can help you:

Would you prefer to:

Let’s pick it and I’ll guide you through step by step.

4o

You said:

could you please provide a .txt file of this conversation? format it so the speaker is indicated on the left side eg. ChatGPT: Chatgpt said this and that and the other User: The user said this

ChatGPT said:

Here you go! You can download the formatted .txt file of our conversation below:

📄 PowerAutomate_CoE_Conversation.txt ​​

4o

You said:

Great, that how I wanted it, sadly it looks like it didn't start from "Using Power Automate, how can I get a list of Dataverse Teams within each Power Platform environment in my tenant, including their Security Roles and Members (AAD or direct)? " like it should

ChatGPT said:

Here’s the updated .txt file with the entire conversation, starting from your very first question:

📄 PowerAutomate_CoE_Conversation_FULL.txt ​​

4o

You said:

How about making the user denote text bold and leave a single line spaced between new speaker. Can we export for Word?

ChatGPT said:

Here’s your conversation exported to a Word document, with:

📄 Download Word Doc ​​

4o

You said:

looks like more than a single line between users should look like User: text or something ChatGPT: Response Also can we please correct any spelling mistakes, and warn of any data included that could be considered private

ChatGPT said:

Here’s your cleaned and formatted Word document, with:

📄 Download Cleaned Word Doc ​​

4o

You said:

hrm You have all the user chat in bold, and the chatgpt in plain, IT should be Bold for the User: identifier and normal for the rest, also it seems your responses after ChatGPT: Ahh — okay, that changes the game a bit again. Great observation 👏 You're absolutely right... were removed. Lets' change and instances of ok to OK, and http to HHTP, aad to AAD, CoE to CoE, basically any acronyms to be capitalized (with the exception of CoE)

ChatGPT said:

Here’s your final, cleaned, and properly formatted Word document with:

📄 Download Final Word Doc ​​

4o

You said:

the file skips from ChatGPT: Ahh — okay, that changes the game a bit again. Great observation 👏 You're absolutely right... to me asking for a text file. wheres the part about ✅ Key Facts: admin_teams (which I previously assumed was a CoE central table) ➤ is actually environment-specific — it’s present in each environment’s Default solution So: ❌ It’s not centrally stored in the CoE environment Therefore, we do need to pull admin_teams from each individual environment, including the CoE one ➤ But we previously ruled out using HTTP to call across environments dynamically So we’re back to needing to query a table that lives in each environment — but we can’t use HTTP to dynamically call each. 🧠 Let's Reevaluate Realistically Here are your viable options now, with HTTP ruled out:

ChatGPT said:

Looks like the exact quote I was searching for didn’t match the formatting in the conversation, so it failed to insert the missing section.

Let me fix that by inserting the missing content manually at the correct place without relying on matching text.

Hang tight — regenerating it properly. ​​

Analysis paused

4o

You said:

IS there a quick way to export this entire chat (including images)?

ChatGPT said:

Currently, there isn’t a built-in one-click export from this interface that includes both text and images together, but here's how you can export everything — including images — in a way that captures the full context:

✅ Option A: Use "Print to PDF" (Best for full visual archive)

  1. Scroll to the top of this chat.

  2. Use your browser’s Print feature:

  3. In the print dialog, choose:

  4. Click Save.

📄 This will give you a full PDF export, including:

✅ Option B: Use Word Export + Save Images Manually

If you want a Word document:

  1. Download the .docx export we just generated:

  2. Right-click each image in this chat and save it manually.

  3. Insert saved images into the Word doc at the appropriate spot.

⚠️ Limitations

Want me to generate an updated .docx version and include placeholders like "[Image: environment_tables.png]" where your screenshots were? I can do that too.

4o

You said:

interestingly trying the save to PDF only displayed up to Step-by-Step Flow Outline, then all other pages are blank. Let's try word again, I want Everything in the chat captured in it

ChatGPT said:

Here’s the complete Word document containing the entire chat, including:

📄 Download Full Chat Archive (.docx) ​​

4o

You said:

I don't want place holders for your step by step replies ie [Step-by-Step Flow Outline provided] I'd rather see it in plain text if it cannot be replicated in the word document

ChatGPT said:

Here’s the updated Word document with:

📄 Download Updated Archive (.docx) ​