generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/create-environment
docs:
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/create-environment
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/data-platform/dataverse-accelerator/api-playground
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/developer/data-platform/webapi/use-postman-web-api
note: >-
  Dynamics 365 Sales has no test-mode key prefix and no magic test values — it is not a
  payments API. Isolation is achieved at the ENVIRONMENT level instead: you provision a
  separate Dataverse environment and point the same per-tenant base URL at it. Every artifact
  below is a real, published Microsoft surface; no test credentials are invented.

isolation_model: separate-environment
test_vs_live:
  mechanism: environment type, not key prefix
  key_prefixes: null
  note: >-
    The same OAuth 2.0 client and the same Web API path serve every environment. What
    changes is the {org} segment of https://{org}.api.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.2 — so a
    misconfigured base URL writes to production. There is no in-band test/live signal on the
    token or on the request.

environments:
- type: Trial
  billable: false
  duration: 30 days (subscription-based trials can be extended per Microsoft policy)
  note: >-
    A trial environment allocates only a SINGLE web server, which matters for load testing —
    service protection limits are enforced per web server, so a trial hits them sooner than
    production.
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/create-environment
- type: Developer
  billable: false
  note: >-
    Developer environments come with the Power Apps Developer Plan and are intended for
    building and testing against Dataverse at no cost.
- type: Sandbox
  billable: true
  note: >-
    Non-production environment intended for development and testing; supports copy and reset
    from production.
- type: Production
  billable: true

api_console:
  name: Dataverse accelerator — API playground
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/data-platform/dataverse-accelerator/api-playground
  status: available in the Dataverse accelerator app
  capability: >-
    Compose and send Web API requests against your own environment and inspect the responses
    without leaving the maker portal.

client_tooling:
- name: Postman with the Dataverse Web API
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/developer/data-platform/webapi/use-postman-web-api
  kind: setup guide
  note: >-
    Microsoft documents how to configure a Postman environment and acquire an Entra ID token
    for the Web API. It is a guide, not a published Postman collection or public workspace —
    no Postman pointer is emitted for this provider on that basis.
- name: Repo Postman collections
  path: collections/
  kind: generated by API Evangelist from openapi/, not published by Microsoft

sample_data:
  available: true
  note: >-
    Dataverse environments can install sample data (sample accounts, contacts, leads and
    opportunities) from the Power Platform admin center, which is the closest equivalent to
    fixture tooling for Sales.

time_simulation:
  supported: false
  note: No test-clock equivalent is published.