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Power Platform Pipelines are a great solution for simple ALM to move your Power Platform solutions from a developer to testing, staging, and production environments.

Check out the official documentation on Power Platform pipelines.

A few weeks ago I wrote post and video about the new ability (in preview) to add Power Pages websites to solutions. This now makes it a lot easier to move Power Pages website configurations between environments.

Already a couple of things have changed making this even easier, specifically the ability to “reactivate” websites in an environment. This provides a couple of new options, first off, if you setup a trial website that expires, you can later on reactivate it.

The other thing is now when you move a solution with a website to a new environment, you will be able to reactivate that as well (instead of provisioning a site on that environment first).

Of course, you don’t want to spend your time exporting and importing solutions and trying to figure out where was that solution file? This is where pipelines really make the process easier.

Here is a video where I walk through the whole process of building a site on a developer environment and deploying it to a test environment.

Here are some key points:

• Both source and target environments need to be enable for the enhanced data model.
• The first time you deploy a website, you will need to reactivate it.
• In your dev environment, as you add items, you will need to manually add them to your solution.

NOTE: Depending on when you read this, the documentation currently states this reactivation feature is only available for standard data model, however, this process does now work for enhanced data model as well.

Want to learn more?

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Nick Doelman is a Senior Content Developer at Microsoft, a Microsoft Certified Trainer, a former Most Valuable Professional (2017-2021), one of the cohosts of the Power Platform BOOST podcast, a community presenter and also competes in international Powerlifting competitions, winning bronze in the recent World Bench Press Championships in South Africa. Follow Nick on twitter at @ReadyXRM