HOW TO: Disable/Turn Off a Power Platform Managed Environment

What do you do if you accidentally enabled a Managed Environment in the Power Platform and you want to make the Environment non-Managed again? There is no way in the Power Platform Admin Center to Disable / Turn Off a Managed Environment, you can only Enable or Delete Managed Environments in the Admin Center. To Disable / Turn Off a Managed Environment, and go back to a non-Managed Environment, you must use PowerShell. Here’s how to do it:

Open a PowerShell prompt as Administrator.

Install PowerShell

Install-Module -Name Microsoft.PowerApps.Administration.PowerShell

Log in with an account that has permissions to administer Environments. The following command will open an authentication prompt. The prompt supports MFA.

Add-PowerAppsAccount -Endpoint prod

Run this code that sets protectionLevel to Basic, which turns an Environment from Managed to non-Managed.

$UpdatedGovernanceConfiguration = [pscustomobject]@{
protectionLevel = "Basic"
}

Run this command to apply the changes to the Environment you want to convert from Managed to non-Managed. Make sure to replace the Environment Id accordingly.

Set-AdminPowerAppEnvironmentGovernanceConfiguration -EnvironmentName <PUT THE ENVIRONMENT ID HERE> -UpdatedGovernanceConfiguration $UpdatedGovernanceConfiguration

Here’s what it all looks like:

Here’s the Microsoft documentation that describes part of this process.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/managed-environment-enable#disable-managed-environments-using-powershell