Maker Deployment page

Makers can now view all their deployments in one place, regardless of solution or pipeline. If their deployment began from (or was deployed to) the current environment, they will be able to view the run history status of it. Failed Deployments and Active Deployments are highlighted in a convenient overview, so you don’t have to go looking for them either!

In addition to deployment visibility, we’ve included a Get started section that will evolve over time. For now, it will link to documentation to help a maker begin their journey to healthy application lifecycle management (ALM).

To further improve understanding of what healthy ALM looks like, we’ll soon be adding recommendations, where makers are alerted to resolve any potentially unhealthy ALM-related behavior, such as housing high-use apps outside of a solution.

Admin Deployment page

The Deployment page in the new admin center provides a streamlined experience to help administrators learn about, setup, and operation best-in-class ALM. The initial preview provides a central location to view all deployments in the tenant, approve deployment requests, and troubleshoot failures.

Select a pipelines host from the picker to see all the pipelines and deployment history managed with that host. A dedicated Failed deployments view helps admins quickly identify and troubleshoot failures and trending issues.

Admins can approve or reject deployment requests assigned to them. First setup Delegated deployments with service principals as the recommended way to deploy securely.

It is important that admins review changes in the solution and the sharing request. With the help of Copilot-generated deployment notes visible in the request, this becomes easier, but if you want a more granular look, be sure to set up Source control integration and link the repository to the approval.

Managed Operations

The Deployment pages are an offering of Managed Operations, allowing all who make or administrate to gain further insight into their Application Lifecycle Management to ensure that business solutions are reliable and performant in production. Aside from just deployment pipelines, these maker and admin experiences will evolve over the coming months and include many more Managed Operations intersections to take advantage of. So, stay tuned for more updates and please leave your feedback below!

Learn more

Admin Deployment page

Maker Deployment page

Managed Operations

New Power Platform Admin Center

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Make your Custom Pipelines Host Discoverable by Default

If you as an admin want to enable your makers to discover your custom host instead of the tenant-wide platform host when they navigate to Pipelines, this is the feature you’ve been waiting for. Since a change made earlier this year, the platform host and its capabilities became the landing pad for any maker going to the Pipelines page due to its out-of-the-box readiness.

Before, if admins wanted makers to use centrally governed pipelines in a custom host instead of using personal pipelines in the platform host, they would have to first set up a custom host and associate makers’ development environments with it. With a default custom host set, those with pipelines create-access and owners of existing pipelines in that custom host can associate new development environments easily by simply going to the Pipelines experience in those development environments and deploying through a pipeline in the host (new or existing).

“Use a custom pipelines host” Setting

Now, when tenant admins navigate to the Deployment Pipeline Configuration app for the platform host (by clicking “Manage pipelines” from the Pipelines page in make.powerapps.com), they will see a new setting under Advanced Settings. Admins can then provide the environment ID for a custom pipelines host to use instead of the platform host when makers are using pipelines in an environment that has not yet associated with a pipelines host.

If makers already used the platform host to deploy, it is important to note that the environments in use must be disassociated from that host before they can be used in the newly assigned custom host.

A new world of possibilities for ALM readiness

Now that admins can assign custom hosts as the default host for their makers’ Pipelines experience, they can also granularly control who can create personal pipelines (within that custom host) when they land on Pipelines in any development environment, even if it’s not already associated with the host. Admins can achieve this by assigning the “Deployment pipeline default” role to users or groups within their custom host who they wish to enable personal pipeline creation for. And, of course, makers who don’t have pipelines create-access can use any pipelines that are shared with them by an admin!

Copilot-generated deployment notes are now available worldwide in 20 supported languages

Finally, Copilot-generated deployment notes are available in 20 major languages* for Makers outside of the U.S. Now, depending on your language settings in the Power Platform page you’re deploying from, Copilot will generate deployment notes in that language. Of course, this also means that Copilot can read and process solutions that aren’t just in English!

*supported languages include English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish.

Import solutions from the environment’s associated pipelines host

Need to hydrate a development environment with a solution that you’ve deployed via Pipelines in the past? Or maybe you’re an admin and one of your makers left the organization along with their personal dev environment? Now, you don’t have to look for the solution manually or upload a .zip file! All solutions deployed through pipelines are now easily accessible in the solution import experience.

Makers can view any solution that they have deployed, while admins can view all deployed solutions in the organization by toggling on Show shared solution deployments. Makers can use this toggle too, but only if enabled through a new admin-controlled Advanced Setting in the Deployment Pipeline Configuration app.

Coming soon

Stay tuned for more exciting Power Platform ALM features coming later this year, and be sure to check out Microsoft Ignite taking place November 18–22, 2024 for highly anticipated announcements!

Learn more about Pipelines and ALM

• Overview of pipelines in Power Platform. Microsoft Docs
• Set a default pipelines host. Microsoft Docs
• Use Copilot to generate deployment notes. Microsoft Docs
• FAQ for “use copilot to generate deployment notes”. Microsoft Docs
• Import solutions from a pipelines host. Microsoft Docs

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