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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.

How to Copy/Duplicate a Table and Columns in a Dataverse Environment

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What If you need to do either of these things, then this article is for you: Create a copy of a table in the same environment as the original table Create a copy of a table but want a different prefix against custom column names Why In most circumstances, if you need to duplicate a dataverse table, I would suggest to bundle it inside a solution, and migrate the solution to another environment.   However, in the scenario where you need the duplicate table to be inside the same environment, here's a quick method that requires no manual creation of columns! How Short answer : Install  XRMToolBox , inside XRMToolBox, install and utilise the Clone Field Definitions Plugin  from the Tool Library. Pre-Tasks In order to clone a table with a new PREFIX value for the columns you first need to do the following: Create a new PUBLISHER with the new prefix you would like Create a new TABLE where you will be cloning all the fields. Tasks Download & Install  XRMToolBox On t...