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Power Platform Consulting: Strategy, Governance and Center of Excellence
We help you get Power Platform under control and ready to grow: a clear environment strategy, data policies that protect you, governance for AI agents and a Center of Excellence that helps makers build safely.
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The short answer
What is Power Platform governance consulting?
Power Platform governance consulting sets up the rules, environments, security and team that let your company build apps, flows and agents quickly without losing control. It covers environment strategy, data policies, release pipelines, licensing, agent governance and a Center of Excellence that supports your makers.
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Signs you need governance
Does your Power Platform look like this?
Hundreds of apps, no map
Nobody knows how many apps, flows and agents exist, who owns them or which ones matter.
Orphaned solutions
Critical flows still run under the account of someone who left the company months ago.
Data going where it shouldn’t
Business data flows into personal or unapproved services because no data policy stops it.
What we do
Power Platform consulting services
Governance assessment
An inventory of every environment, app, flow and agent, with risks, owners and license gaps.
Environment strategy
Developer, test and production environments, environment groups and rules, and a locked-down default environment.
Data policies and security
Data policies (DLP) for connectors, sharing limits, security roles and Managed Environments.
ALM and pipelines
Solutions, environment variables and pipelines so changes reach production safely.
Agent governance
Rules, roles and limits for Copilot Studio agents and agents built across Microsoft 365.
Center of Excellence
CoE roles, maker onboarding, training and a support model that scales.
What’s changing
Three changes every Power Platform admin needs to plan for
Microsoft is moving governance into the Power Platform admin center and tightening licensing and release rules. Each of these needs action before it affects your users.
CoE Starter Kit
Microsoft no longer maintains the CoE Starter Kit; its core features now live in the admin center. We move you to Inventory, Usage, Monitor and Actions.
Pipelines
Since October 2026, pipelines deploying to unmanaged environments get a 30-day notice, then future deployments are blocked. We turn on Managed Environments before that happens.
Licensing
From February 2027, users without the right license are blocked from opening apps in Managed Environments. We find who’s affected and fix it first.
Environment strategy
The right place for every app, flow and agent
A good environment strategy keeps personal experiments away from business-critical solutions, and applies the same rules to every environment that holds them.
Environment groups and rules
Environment groups work like folders for Managed Environments. Rules for sharing, data policies, AI features, data retention and ALM are set once and locked in every environment in the group.
A safer default environment
Everyone can create in the default environment, so we keep it for personal productivity, apply a strict data policy and route new makers to their own developer environments.
Agent governance
Governing AI agents before they multiply
Agents are easy to build, which means they spread fast. The admin center inventory now shows agents next to apps and flows, and admins can block a published agent. Data policies control what agents can connect to, which knowledge they use and where they’re published.
For larger rollouts, Microsoft Agent 365 adds a central place to observe, govern and secure agents across the company. We set up the roles, limits and reviews that keep agents useful and safe.
Center of Excellence
A Center of Excellence that helps, not blocks
Governance works when makers see it as support. We build a small CoE team and process using Microsoft’s adoption maturity model and Power Platform Well-Architected guidance.
Roles and support
Admins, a CoE lead, champions in each department and a clear path for makers to get help or move a solution into production.
Maker enablement
Welcome content, training, templates and office hours, so makers build the right way from their first app.
How we work
Assess, set up, then keep it healthy
Assess
Inventory, risks, owners and license gaps.
Plan
Environments, policies, roles and roadmap.
Set up
Groups, rules, data policies and pipelines.
Enable
CoE team, maker training and support.
Run
Monthly reviews of actions, licenses and agents.
Prefer to hand it off? Our ongoing governance service reviews admin center recommendations, new apps and agents, license needs and policy changes with you every month.
Why TSinfo
Why teams choose us for Power Platform governance
Free consultation
Talk to a Power Platform governance expert
Worried about sprawl, licensing or agents? In 30 minutes, we’ll review where you are and suggest the first three things to fix.
Book a Free Consultation- A quick review of your environments
- February 2027 license readiness
- Agent governance gaps
- A recommended first step
FAQ
Power Platform governance questions
What does Power Platform governance consulting include?
It includes an assessment of your environments, apps, flows and agents, an environment strategy, data policies, security and sharing rules, release pipelines, license planning, agent governance and a Center of Excellence to support makers.
What is a Power Platform Center of Excellence?
A Center of Excellence is a small team and set of processes that supports makers, sets standards and keeps Power Platform secure and well run. It doesn’t have to be large. Even two or three people with clear roles make a difference.
What changes in February 2027?
Starting in February 2027, users without an appropriate license are blocked from opening apps in Managed Environments. Microsoft notes that the requirement isn’t new, but enforcement is. We identify affected users and plan licenses before then.
How should we structure our environments?
Most organizations keep the default environment for personal productivity, give makers developer environments, and run business solutions through development, test and production Managed Environments in an environment group.
How do you govern AI agents?
We use the admin center inventory to see every agent, data policies to control connectors and knowledge, roles for agent admins, Copilot Credit limits and Microsoft Purview auditing. Agent 365 adds company-wide oversight when you need it.
Can you run governance for us on an ongoing basis?
Yes. Our ongoing governance service reviews recommendations, new apps and agents, license needs and policies with you every month, and fixes issues as they appear.
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