Platform Intelligence

The LCS → PPAC transition

Finance & Operations admin has a new home

For years, F&O teams managed environments in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Lifecycle Services (LCS). Microsoft is unifying that admin experience into the Power Platform admin center (PPAC), where a finance and operations environment becomes an application inside a Dataverse-backed Power Platform environment.

That brings one consistent set of lifecycle operations — but it also changes where admins look for versions, updates, capacity and deployments, and spreads that information across many screens and tenants.

Platform Intelligence pulls it back together so your team can plan updates, track capacity and answer "what's running where?" in seconds.

Source: Microsoft Learn — "Overview of unified admin experience for finance and operations apps".

Then — Lifecycle ServicesSeparate portal for F&O projects, environments, updates and deployable packages.

Now — Unified admin in PPACF&O environments, capacity, licensing and policies administered alongside the rest of Power Platform.

Your next step — a single viewThis dashboard summarizes every F&O environment in your tenant from the official APIs.

Where things moved

From LCS to PPAC — and where you'll see it here

Task	Previously (LCS)	Now (PPAC)	In this dashboard
Environment inventory	LCS project environments	Environments list	Environments tab
Versions & releases	Environment details	Environment / app details	Version → release mapping
Updates & maintenance	Update settings	Maintenance windows	Schedule view & confirmed changes
Storage & capacity	Subscription estimator / usage	Capacity pages	Storage & tenant capacity
Packages & deployments	Asset library / deployable packages	Package-based tools	Package Manager history

Draft mapping — to be verified against current Microsoft documentation before publishing.

What you get

Everything an F&O admin checks, on one page

Environment overview

All finance and operations environments in your tenant, with type, region and state.

Versions explained

Application builds mapped to Microsoft release names, so you know exactly what's installed.

Update planning

Scheduled updates and maintenance windows side by side, with safe, confirmed changes.

Storage & capacity

Per-environment storage and tenant capacity, so there are no end-of-month surprises.

Package history

On-demand Package Manager history for the environment you choose.

Secure by design

Your tenant, your Azure, your control

Hosted in your Azure

Deployed into your own Azure subscription, not a shared Avantiico service.

Microsoft sign-in

Entra ID with your existing permissions. Tokens stay on the server.

Nothing runs until you ask

Signing in collects no data. You choose when to refresh.

Changes need confirmation

Maintenance changes are reviewed, confirmed and read back.

Good to know

Important information, security & privacy

⚠ Changes affect live environments

Maintenance changes made here are applied to your real Microsoft environments. Review each change carefully and follow your organization's change process.

ⓘ Verify before you act

Information comes from Microsoft APIs and may be delayed or incomplete. Always confirm critical details in the Power Platform admin center before making decisions.

✓ Your permissions apply

The dashboard can only see or change what your Microsoft account is already allowed to. It does not grant extra rights.

About the information shown

Platform Intelligence is built by Avantiico. It is not a Microsoft product.
Version, update, capacity and package information is what Microsoft's APIs return at the time you click Refresh data. The snapshot time is shown on the dashboard.
Microsoft can change update schedules, versions and features after a refresh. Refresh again before making decisions.
Release names are mapped from Microsoft's published build information and may not include the newest releases yet.
The LCS-to-PPAC summary on this page is for orientation. See Microsoft Learn for Microsoft's current guidance.

Access, approval & permissions

Only Microsoft Entra tenants approved by Avantiico can sign in. Approval does not grant administrator rights.
Your organization may need an administrator to consent to the app's permissions. Consent prompts come from Microsoft, not from this site.
Permissions requested: sign-in and basic profile, Power Platform environment read (EnvironmentManagement.Environments.Read), Microsoft Graph User.Read for your organization's name, and Dataverse user_impersonation for Package Manager.
Your account must already have access to the relevant Power Platform environments and Dataverse tables.

Security & what this site connects to

Sign-in uses Microsoft (login.microsoftonline.com). Tokens are kept on the server and are never sent to your browser.
Data comes from api.powerplatform.com, graph.microsoft.com (organization name only) and your selected environment's Dataverse URL.
Signing in does not collect data or change anything. Data is only collected when you click Refresh data.
Maintenance changes require review and confirmation, are checked against the current setting, and are read back after saving. A change already sent cannot be undone by signing out.
Sessions expire after at most one hour. Sign-out ends this dashboard session only; it does not sign you out of Microsoft or other apps, or revoke consent.

Your data

This site runs in your organization's own Azure subscription. Snapshots are stored in that app's storage, separated per user and tenant.
Avantiico does not receive your environment data through this app.
No customer list or secrets are shipped with the app. Access restrictions are enforced in Microsoft Entra.

Questions or access requests: contact Avantiico.

One clear view of your Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations environments — now that LCS is moving to Power Platform.