Select West Europe region for Power Platform environment

[federico2]

Hi

When I create a new environment in the Power Platform admin portal, I get to choose "Europe" as the region. If I understood correctly that is mapped to either Azure's North Europe or West Europe. Is there a way to specify which of the 2 I would like to use?

The problem is that I want to create a Synapse Link for Dataverse, and there is a requirement that the linked Storage Account and the Dataverse instance must be located in the same region. My Storage Account is located in West Europe (I cannot change that due to company's policies), while the Power Platform environment was created in North Europe. 

[joe_hannes_col]

Hello @federico2,

As far as I know there is no way to explicitly specify an Azure region either through the Power Platform Admin Center or other ways, e.g. PowerShell cmdlets.

But there is an idea to be able to do this you can upvote: https://experience.dynamics.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=40985e4d-250e-eb11-b5d9-0003ff68ded8

[federico2]

Thanks for the quick reply. Do you happen to know how the "Europe" region is assigned? Is it always assigned to North Europe, or is it somewhat randomly assigned between North and West?

If it's the latter I could just try recreating the environment until it lands into the right location 😂

[geertvanzoest]

Hi Federico2, how did you manage to solve your problem? I have exactly the same situation here. 

[federico2]

Hi @geertvanzoest 

I ended up moving the storage to North Europe to match the Power Platform environment. I could do it for my specific use case, but there are cases in which you need your resources to be located in a specific region.

[geertvanzoest]

Ah, ok. Too bad. I'll do the same in that case. Surely hope it won't make things more complicated regarding other region-dependant resources on Azure that I want to interact with. Thanks for sharing your experience anyway!

[jeroenvs]

@federico2 @geertvanzoest How did you move the storage to another region? Was this a manual action in the Azure Portal or within Power Apps?

[federico2]

@jeroenvs I recreated the account from scratch. I was lucky that we were still in the testing phase, so no real data was present in the storage. I don't think there's a way to move a storage account to another region, you have to create a new one and move the data. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-account-move?tabs=azure-portal

[geertvanzoest]

@jeroenvs I switched to another story on my backlog. Have to look into it later on. 😏 

[ChrisPiasecki]

Hi @federico2,

There are 2 ways to move your environment into the specific Azure data center region:

• Open a support ticket with Microsoft to request the move. They will work with you to schedule a time that works best. They indicate there is usually no outage/impact, just slight performance degradation possibly. Best to schedule it during quiet hours.
• You can use the Region Name parameter of the New-AdminPowerAppEnvironment PowerShell cmdlet. I believe it's not broadly advertised by Microsoft in order to have more predictability around data center resource management and disaster recovery. Not all regions have the same number of availability zones and some are meant to be the secondary (failover) zone, so keep that in mind and check into whether a particular Azure region has all the same services/resources available and thay you don't run into limitations.

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