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All environments of Common Data Service use SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) to perform real-time encryption of data when written to disk, also known as encryption at rest.
By default, Microsoft stores and manages the database encryption key for your environments so you don't have to. The manage keys feature in the Power Platform admin center gives administrators the ability to self-manage the database encryption key that is associated with the Common Data Service tenant.
Important
Self-managed database encryption keys are only available for customers who have more than 1000 Power Apps plan and/or Dynamics 365 plan licensed user seats and who have opted in to the feature. To opt in to this program, contact your account or sales representative.
Encryption key management is only applicable to Azure SQL environment databases. The following features and services use their own key to encrypt their data and can't be encrypted with the self-managed encryption key:
Encryption key management cannot be applied to environments that have data stored in File and Image fields.
A majority of existing environments have file and log stored in non-Azure SQL databases. These environments cannot be opted in to self-managed encryption key. Only new environments (once you signed up for this program) can be enabled with self-managed encryption key.
Introduction to key management
With key management, administrators can provide their own encryption key or have an encryption key generated for them, which is used to protect the database for an environment.
The key management feature supports both PFX and BYOK encryption key files, such as those stored in a hardware security module (HSM). To use the upload encryption key option you need both the public and private encryption key.
The key management feature takes the complexity out of encryption key management by using Azure Key Vault to securely store encryption keys. Azure Key Vault helps safeguard cryptographic keys and secrets used by cloud applications and services. The key management feature doesn't require that you have an Azure Key Vault subscription and for most situations there is no need to access encryption keys used for Common Data Service within the vault.
The manage keys feature lets you perform the following tasks.
Understand the potential risk when you manage your keys![]()
As with any business critical application, personnel within your organization who have administrative-level access must be trusted. Before you use the key management feature, you should understand the risk when you manage your database encryption keys. It is conceivable that a malicious administrator (a person who is granted or has gained administrator-level access with intent to harm an organization's security or business processes) working within your organization might use the manage keys feature to create a key and use it to lock all environments in the tenant.
Consider the following sequence of events.
The malicious administrator signs in to the Power Platform admin center, goes to the Environments tab and selects Manage encryption key. The malicious administrator then creates a new key with a password and downloads the encryption key to their local drive, and activates the new key. Now all the environment databases are encrypted with the new key. Next, the malicious administrator locks the tenant with the newly downloaded key, and then takes or deletes the downloaded encryption key.
These actions will result in disabling all the environments within the tenant from online access and make all database backups un-restorable.
Important
To prevent the malicious administrator from interrupting the business operations by locking the database, the managed keys feature doesn't allow tenant environments to be locked for 72 hours after the encryption key has changed or activated. Additionally, anytime an encryption key is changed for a tenant, all administrators receive an email message alerting them of the key change. This provides up to 72 hours for other administrators to roll back any unauthorized key changes.
Key management requirementsPrivileges required
To use the manage keys feature you need one of the following privileges:
Encryption key requirements
If you provide your own encryption key, your key must meet these requirements that are accepted by Azure Key Vault.
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Key management tasks
To simplify the key management tasks, the tasks are broken down into three areas:
Administrators can use the Power Platform admin center or the Microsoft.Xrm.OnlineManagementAPI PowerShell module cmdlets to perform the key management tasks described here.
Generate or upload the encryption key for a tenant
All encryption keys are stored in the Azure Key Vault, and there can only be one active key at any time. Since the active key is used to encrypt all the environments in the tenant, managing the encryption is operated at the tenant level. Once the key is activated, each individual environment can then be selected to use the key for encryption.
Use this procedure to set the manage key feature the first time for an environment or to change (or roll-over) an encryption key for an already self-managed tenant.
Warning
When you perform the steps described here for the first time you are opting in to self-managing your encryption keys. More information: Understand the potential risk when you manage your keys.
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To perform this task using PowerShell, see Get-CRMGenerateProtectionkey and Set-CrmTenantProtectionKey.
Upload a key (.pfx or .byok)
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1 For .byok encryption key files, make sure you use the subscription id as shown on the screen when you export the encryption key from your local HSM. More information: How to generate and transfer HSM-protected keys for Azure Key Vault.
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Note
To reduce the number of steps for the administrator to manage the key process, the key is automatically activated when it is uploaded the first time. All subsequent key uploads require an additional step to activate the key.
Activate an encryption key for a tenant
Once an encryption key is generated or uploaded for the tenant, it can be activated.
When you activate a key for the tenant, it takes a while for the key management service to activate the key. The status of the Key state displays the key as Installing when the new or uploaded key is activated.Once the key is activated, the following occurs:
To perform this task using PowerShell, see Set-CrmProtectWithTenantKey.
Important
To streamline the key management process so that all environments are managed by the same key, the active key can't be updated when there are locked environments. All locked environments must be unlocked before a new key can be activated. If there are locked environments that don't need to be unlocked, they must be deleted.
Note
After an encryption key is activated, you can't activate another key for 24 hours.
Manage encryption for an environment
By default, each environment is encrypted with the Microsoft-provided encryption key. Once an encryption key is activated for the tenant, administrators can elect to change the default encryption to use the activated encryption key. To use the activated key, follow these steps.
Apply encryption key to an environment
Return a managed encryption key back to Microsoft-provided encryption key
Returning to the Microsoft-provided encryption key configures the environment back to the default behavior where Microsoft manages the encryption key for you.
To perform this task using PowerShell, see Set-CrmProtectWithMicrosoftKey.
Lock the tenant
Since there is only one active key per tenant, locking the encryption for the tenant disables all the environments that are in the tenant. All locked environments remain inaccessible to everyone, including Microsoft, until a Power Platform service admin in your organization unlocks it by using the key that was used to lock it.
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Caution
You should never lock the tenant environments as part of your normal business process. When you lock a Common Data Service tenant, all the environments will be taken completely offline and they can't be accessed by anyone, including Microsoft. Additionally, services such as synchronization and maintenance are all stopped. If you decide to leave the service, locking the tenant can ensure that your online data is never accessed again by anyone.
Note the following about tenant environments locking:
Important
To lock a tenant using the PowerShell cmdlet, see Set-CrmLockTenantProtectedInstances.
Unlock locked environments
To unlock environments you must first upload and then activate the tenant encryption key with the same key that was used to lock the tenant. Please note that locked environments do not get unlocked automatically once the key has been activated. Each locked environment has to be unlocked individually.
Important
Unlock encryption key
Unlock environments
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To unlock an environment using the PowerShell cmdlet, see Set-CrmUnlockTenantProtectedInstance.
Environment database operations
A customer tenant can have environments that are encrypted using the Microsoft managed key and environments that are encrypted with the customer managed key. To maintain data integrity and data protection, the following controls are available when managing environment database operations.
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Important
When an encryption key is activated or changed, all administrators receive an email message alerting them of the change. This provides a means to allow other administrators to verify and confirm that the key was updated by an authorized administrator. Since it takes time to activate the key and to encrypt all the environments, and to send out the email notification, an encryption key can only be updated once every 24 hours.
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