Locate an Environment in Power Automate Flow

Power Automate provides a set of incredibly robust and powerful tools for business process automation, especially when used in conjunction with Dynamics and the Power Platform as whole.  To that end, we can leverage Power Automate to locate an environment’s GUID (globally unique identifier) in the first few steps of a flow run.  This gives flow builders the ability to allow certain components of a flow to run in whole or in a modified state based on whether or not the environment is a production or test/QA environment.

Power Automate Flow Steps

In our flow, we can create a Compose Action step and set the inputs to the following expression:

Locating an Environment’s GUID

We can locate our environment’s GUID by navigating to Advanced Settings (in Dynamics 365 classic experience) > Customizations > Developer Resources.  Our environment’s GUID is located in the ID field in the Instance Reference Information section.

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