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Instance
(Note: An instance in Dynamics 365 is known as an environment in the Power Platform.)
Within a tenant, there can be one or more isolated instances of Dynamics 365. These can be viewed when the XRMToolBox is used to log into the tenant.
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Each cloud instance can be accessed via a url similar to the format: https://contosodev.crm6.dynamics.com. ‘contosodev’ represents the instance and ‘crm6’ represents the regional subdomain.
There are one or more apps per organizational instance.
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https://port.crm6.dynamics.com/G/InstancePicker.aspx?Redirect=True (legacy)
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https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/environments (new)
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