Project Operations-based trials (with ERP) in the Power Platform admin center
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 
Sep 30, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
Business value
Today, customers who want to do a trial of Project Operations apps need to do so in either the Lifecycle Services (LCS) portal when enterprise resource planning (ERP) functionality is required or the Power Platform admin center when CRM functionality is required. In some cases, customers need to use both admin portals to manage their trial. This is very time consuming and has a disconnected experience. The new single admin portal approach resolves these issues.
Feature details
Project Operations, inclusive of scenarios that require the deployment of Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations apps, will now be fully managed in the Power Platform admin center. Historically, Finance and Operations apps have only been deployable through the Lifecycle Services (LCS) admin portal. This has now been reimagined to better align with the rest of the Dynamics 365 apps, and now Finance and Operations will appear as another app installed on top of Microsoft Dataverse.
Behind the scenes, all of the infrastructure and databases that today's Finance and Operations customers are used to provisioning will still get deployed, but those technical details will be hidden away in the Power Platform admin center. New customers with a trial of the Project Operations suite will get a Microsoft Dataverse and an X++ ERP runtime simultaneously.
For trial scenarios, this now means that customers who need ERP and CRM combined functionality can get a single environment that contains the full stack of capabilities, and it'll all be in a single admin center experience.