<ul><li>Copying production data into lower environments in Power Platform may seem like a convenient way to validate functionality and test performance, but it comes with significant risks.</li><li>Risks of copying production data include exposure of sensitive customer data, unintended communications that can impact real customers, data storage limitations, and performance issues in sandbox instances.</li><li>While there are benefits to copying production data such as realism, debugging accuracy, customer journey validation, and performance benchmarking, the risks of PII exposure, live comms, storage overload, and compliance breach must be carefully considered.</li><li>Recommendations include using tools like the Configuration Migration Tool, scrubbing PII during data export, disabling flows and journeys before importing, and creating realistic test environments without jeopardizing data security.</li></ul>

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