generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/developer/cli/introduction
docs:
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/developer/cli/introduction
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/developer/cli/reference
note: >-
  There is no `dynamics365-sales` CLI. The first-party command-line surface for a Dynamics
  365 Sales environment is the Microsoft Power Platform CLI (`pac`), which authenticates
  against and operates on the Dataverse environment the Sales tables live in. A second,
  newer CLI — @microsoft/dataverse — is in preview and additionally ships a stdio MCP server.

clis:
- name: Microsoft Power Platform CLI
  binary: pac
  official: true
  version: 2.11.2
  version_source: NuGet Microsoft.PowerApps.CLI / Microsoft.PowerApps.CLI.Tool
  published: '2026-08-13'
  install:
  - method: dotnet tool
    command: dotnet tool install --global Microsoft.PowerApps.CLI.Tool
    os: [windows, linux, macos]
    caveat: >-
      Does NOT enable `pac data`, `pac package deploy` or `pac package show` — those are
      Windows-only and require the MSI or the VS Code extension.
  - method: Visual Studio Code extension
    command: install the Power Platform Tools extension
    os: [windows, linux, macos]
  - method: Windows MSI
    command: download and run the MSI installer
    os: [windows]
    note: supports managing installed versions
  sovereign_clouds: GCC and GCC High (US Sovereign cloud) via `pac auth create --cloud`
  commands:
  - group: pac auth
    purpose: create, list, select and delete authentication profiles against a tenant/environment
    key_commands:
    - 'pac auth create --environment "HR-Dev"'
    - 'pac auth create --deviceCode'
    - pac auth list
    - pac auth select --index 2
  - group: pac org
    purpose: Dataverse environment operations (list, select, who, copy, settings)
  - group: pac solution
    purpose: solution package lifecycle — init, add-reference, pack, unpack, import, export, publish
  - group: pac data
    purpose: export and import Dataverse data (Windows only)
  - group: pac package
    purpose: package deployment (deploy and show are Windows only)
  - group: pac pcf
    purpose: Power Apps component framework code components — init, push
  - group: pac plugin
    purpose: scaffold Dataverse plug-in projects
  - group: pac modelbuilder
    purpose: generate strongly-typed .NET classes from Dataverse table metadata
  - group: pac env
    purpose: environment lifecycle operations
  - group: pac complete
    purpose: shell tab completion (PowerShell, bash, zsh, fish, nushell)
  feedback: https://github.com/microsoft/powerplatform-build-tools/discussions

- name: Dataverse CLI
  binary: dataverse
  package: '@microsoft/dataverse'
  official: true
  status: preview
  version: 1.0.63
  published: '2026-08-08'
  install:
  - method: npm
    command: npm install -g @microsoft/dataverse
    os: [windows, linux, macos]
  description_verbatim: 'CLI tool for Dataverse, including stdio MCP server. Preview.'
  note: >-
    This is the local-stdio MCP distribution recorded in
    mcp/microsoft-dynamics-365-sales-mcp.yml. Source repo is Azure DevOps
    (dev.azure.com/dynamicscrm/OneCRM/_git/DataverseCLI), not GitHub, so the command surface
    is not enumerated here — only what the registry and the package description state.

see_also:
  packages: packages/microsoft-dynamics-365-sales-packages.yml
  mcp: mcp/microsoft-dynamics-365-sales-mcp.yml