Use unmananged environment as target in pipelines

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Posted on by KR_Conport

Hi there,

We are gaining experience with Deployment Pipelines. Microsoft Documentation says: "All target environments used in a pipeline must be enabled as Managed Environments."

In fact I was able to use an unmanaged environment as target environment. Is that known or experienced by others? Can problems occur and if so, what are they?

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Maarten_DIF 145 on at

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Use unmananged environment as target in pipelines

Sorry to reply to such an old post, but I just experienced the same and have the same question.

I deployed a pipeline from a Developer (free) environment to a Sandbox environment which are both Unmanaged.

The solution was imported as a managed solution and I would like to use this functionality for Production as well.

However, we don't have the need for all other features that Managed environments give and we don't have (budget for) premium licenses for all users.
emiledutoit 8 on at

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Re: Use unmananged environment as target in pipelines

Hi, in my pipeline setup for an experiment I was able to successfully use 4 environments as follows:

1) Host Environment: Dataverse: YES; Managed: No Type: Trial
2) Prod Environment: Dataverse: YES; Managed: Yes Type: Developer (so no cost while developing/testing)
3) Test Environment: Dataverse: YES; Managed: Yes Type: Developer (so no cost while developing/testing)
4) Dev Environment: Dataverse: YES; Managed: Yes Type: Developer (so no cost while developing/testing)

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alovalpwa 159 on at

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Re: Use unmananged environment as target in pipelines

hi @gralls
I have a PowerApps premium licence (per user).
Until now I defined my pipeline this way:
Host pipeline environment (sandbox type environment and unmanaged)
Dev & Test environment (sandbox type and unmanaged)
Target environment (production type and unmanaged)
I didn't notice any issue when deploying my solutions/apps from Dev to Production.
Now I reorganized my environments due to capacity issues and I've defined my pipeline (I think according with documentation) this way:
Host pipeline environment : Production type unmanaged.
Dev & Test : Developper type unmanaged
Target : Production type managed
Best regards
gralls 18 on at

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Re: Use unmananged environment as target in pipelines

Thanks for bringing this up! When you say "I was able to use an unmanaged environment as target environment." which environment(s) in the pipeline was unmanaged? I've looked into, but not actually tested, having Dev and Test as Managed but Prod as Unmanged (for licensing reasons - we're in Higher Ed) and found it not to be feasible. While I'd still be reluctant to use this even if it works, since MS says it shouldn't work and could enforce that at any time and shut down my pipeline, I'd love to know more about what you found to work.
santi_95 77 on at

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Re: Use unmananged environment as target in pipelines

Interesting, I did not even attempt to test using an unmanaged environment to see the results. Following this.
alovalpwa 159 on at

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Re: Use unmananged environment as target in pipelines

Hi @KR_Conport
Yes I have used unmanaged environment as target environment in pipelines without apparent issues.
And I have the same doubt as you.
Also it is not clear for me the type of environment that I should use to host pipelines (production?, sandbox?, developper?)