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Power Platform - Give yourself System Administrator Rights in the Default Environment

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 What How to give a Power Platform Administrator the System Administrator rights so that you have full control over your default environment. Why By default, no one has access to create a new table/entity in the Dataverse in the default environment.  In our instance, we are extending the capabilities of Microsoft Planners Premium Plan Metadata. How The normal methods of going into the PP Admin Centre and giving yourself 'System Administrator' rights is disabled.  The only way to give yourself full admin access is via the 'Membership' button found here on the homepage of the Environment Administration for the default environment.

Office 365 - SharePoint Online: Run a Report to List Your SharePoint Service Administrators

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What I've begun setting up the governance model for SharePoint Online and was working out the best way to ensure when I give someone SharePoint Administration Access that they automatically have full access to administer every Site Collection. My method is to use the 'SharePoint Service Administrator' Group.  This is the group that you are added to when your O365 User Account is assigned the 'SharePoint Administrator' Role. Why My reasoning is that way when a staff member joins the team you only need to get them added to one spot and they are good to get on with the work. Problem Occasionally you will want to check that the right staff have access.  How do you report on who is a member of that group!?  I searched high and low to no avail.  When that fails, there's only one choice...  Powershell. Here's the script you need to run in order to bring back a list of every user that has been given SharePoint Adminstrator Access: #Connection to Off...