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How I Deployed Flows to Every Developer Environment in My Tenant

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  Power Platform Automation How I Deployed Flows to  Every  Developer Environment in My Tenant One script. One login. Zero portal clicks. A story about wrestling with Microsoft APIs so you don't have to. Kerolos February 2026 12 min read ↓ scroll If you manage a Power Platform tenant with multiple developer environments, you know the pain. Environments get created for testing, POCs, and hackathons—then forgotten. Nobody knows what's alive, what's orphaned, or what's silently eating up capacity. I wanted a way to  prove that every developer environment is reachable and functional.  Not with a fancy monitoring solution. Not with a third-party tool. Just a dead-simple scheduled Power Automate flow that runs daily at 8 AM, does absolutely nothing meaningful, and terminates with success. If it runs, the environment is alive. If it doesn't, something's wrong. That's it. The Goal One script. One login. Deploy a heartbeat flow to every developer environment in the t...

How I Built a Power Apps MCP Server That Deploys Custom Code Apps While I Drink Coffee

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Power Platform × AI Automation Stop Clicking, Start Shipping: The MCP Server That Lets Claude Build & Deploy Power Apps in 60 Seconds How a custom MCP server gives Claude Desktop 16 tools to create Dataverse tables, scaffold React apps, write custom code, build, deploy, and manage solutions—without ever opening the maker portal. Kerolos · Sr. Infrastructure & Security Engineer · February 2026 · 18 min read 16 MCP Tools 0 Portal Clicks 60s Deploy Time 14 Source Files Download MCP Server (.zip) Everything you need — 16 source files, ready to build In This Post The Problem: Manual Everything The Solution: An AI That Builds Power Apps All 16 Tools The Breakthrough: File Write Bridge 7 Production Bugs We Crushed Complete Setup Guide (4 Phases) All Source Files Usage Examples Troubleshooting ⬇ Download the MCP Server The Problem: Manual Everything Every enterprise Power Platform team knows the pain. You need a new app. You open the maker portal. You click through wizard after wizard....