That changes now.

Dataverse—the secure, scalable business apps and data platform behind Microsoft Copilot Studio, Power Apps, and Dynamics 365—is now natively integrated with Microsoft Fabric, the industry-leading big data and analytics platform. This seamless, zero-copy, real-time integration allows organizations to combine operational and analytical data instantly, without replication or ETL. As your data gets updated in Dataverse, data professionals see latest data continuously updated in Fabric. No need to build and manage complex data integrations.

Fabric + Dataverse Better Together

Copilots in Fabric can create rich reports, discover hidden trends, or re-shape data for even more insights – your employees get to harness the power of data, without requiring the organization to seek expert assistance. 

Organizations can act on these insights immediately by building Power Apps, automating workflows in Power Automate, or creating real-time Fabric data agents to drive decisions and actions across the business. It’s a direct path to operational intelligence. 

There’s no need to invest in third-party connectors, spin up big-budget integration projects, or provision heavy infrastructure, no need for ongoing monitoring and maintenance. Organizations can get started with a fully functional trial, pay only for the data they use, and scale as they grow. Most organizations find this approach to be significantly more cost-effective than exporting data and building data warehouses with data pipelines. 

Announcing enhancements to Link to Fabric and Mirrored Dataverse

The feature at the center of this transformation is Link to Fabric in the Power Apps maker portal, which enables real-time connectivity between Dataverse, Power Platform, and Microsoft Fabric without data movement. 

Since launching Link to Fabric in general availability in November 2023, thousands of organizations have adopted the Link to Fabric feature—and it just keeps getting better. Thanks to enhancements in Microsoft’s managed compute infrastructure, we are announcing faster data refreshes for updates in Dataverse in Fabric within a few minutes, delivering near real-time operational insights without impacting critical transactional real-time workloads. This capability will rollout to existing customers in the coming weeks. Businesses eager to participate in the early adoption of this cutting-edge technology can join the forum at aka.ms/FabricLinkforDynamics.

We are also excited to announce Mirrored Dataverse in private preview, a native experience in Fabric which enables data professionals to securely activate Link to Fabric feature in Dataverse from any Fabric workspace, and to combine all their business data with analytical data in Microsoft OneLake. Register for preview at https://aka.ms/MirroredDataverse.

Using OneLake as a unified data foundation, an organization can: 

• Mirror Dataverse into Fabric for secure, instant access—no ETL or replication required 
• Use shortcuts to automate data assimilation from other clouds, such as Amazon and Google, without physically moving it 
• Transform data its own way using low-code tools like Dataflows or advanced capabilities like Spark notebooks and Data Factory 
• Bring SQL skills along for the ride. Fabric speaks T-SQL, so existing scripts and stored procedures are fully supported. 

With Dataverse and Fabric working seamlessly together, business and analytical data are unified, updated in real-time, and available for insights at all times. 

Unlock real time insights and actions with Fabric data agents

While real-time operational dashboards are an important first step, organizations can also harness the power of AI driven data agents to achieve real-time insights and action. Data professionals in Fabric can leverage real-time data integrations and create Fabric data agents (previously known as Fabric AI Skills). These agents act like an AI-powered data analyst—deeply familiar with your unique business data and ready to reason, answer questions, surface insights, or run exploratory research on your behalf. 

There’s no need to source, train, or manage models – just select the data (live from Dataverse via Link to Fabric or any connected source) and the agent is ready. It’s a faster track to building intelligence into operations without requiring advanced AI expertise. 

And just like the rest of the Fabric and Dataverse integration, it’s designed for speed, simplicity, and scale. Organizations can launch a fully functional trial in hours, with no upfront cost, and pay only for the data they use. This fully managed experience means no complex configurations and no disruption to existing workloads. In fact, most customers report a modest 10% increase in all-up data size managed after enabling the feature in production—delivering powerful AI capabilities at a fraction of the cost of traditional real-time data warehouse solutions. 

Using Link to Fabric feature in Dataverse and Fabric Data warehouse, we simplified setup and configuration process, eliminating the need for multiple tools and streamlined data integration, making it easier to monitor and troubleshoot issues.

The transition also removed several data copy steps enhancing efficiency and reducing processing times from 30-40 minutes to 2-3 minutes. This means, our business gets critical data and reports much sooner, and the reports and tasks run much faster. By consolidating all our services into Fabric, we reduced the costs of our data warehouse by over 50% each month.

Lekha Kannoju, Sr. Manager of Business Intelligence, Global IT | CRC Industries, Inc. 

Take action

With business and analytical data now unified in real time, it’s easier than ever to turn insights into impact. Build responsive Power Apps, automate business processes, and empower teams to act confidently—using the freshest data from across your organization via Fabric OneLake. 

Get started today 

Whether you’re a data professional, a low-code maker, or just curious about what’s possible—there’s never been a better time to explore real-time intelligence with Dataverse and Fabric. 

Learn more: 

• Read more: https://aka.ms/Fabric-Con-Blog-2025
• Dive into official docs: Link your Dataverse environment to Microsoft Fabric and unlock deep insights – Power Apps | Microsoft Learn 
• Join the community forum and connect with experts at aka.ms/FabricLinkforDynamics 

Try real-time data warehousing with Link to Fabric today:  

• Create a developer environment with a free Dataverse. 
• Start a free Fabric trial today 

Join the Mirrored Dataverse in private preview. Sign up now at https://aka.ms/MirroredDataverse

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How can I strive towards enterprise-grade security for my agents?

Microsoft’s suite of business application security capabilities provides turn-key solutions to ensure that your organization is AI-ready, taking the guess work out of achieving agent adoption with enterprise-grade security. Managed security for Microsoft Power Platform brings together capabilities needed to secure your apps, flows, MCS agents, and the business data backing them. From security posture management, enhanced identity and access management tools, data protection and privacy capabilities, and more, managed security enables admins to safeguard agents at scale.

How can I ensure that agents can only be built and used by authorized individuals?

MCS, as part of Microsoft Power Platform, comes with numerous, rich identity and access controls. In Power Platform, environments are individual containers used to store, manage, and share business data, apps, flows, and agents built with MCS for easy management of distinct business use cases or disparate audiences. Admins can navigate to the Power Platform admin center, where they can manage the environments where agents reside easily with security groups. This ensures streamlined allocation of resources like agents across functional units like business groups or regions.

For more granular controls, visit the security hub to configure data policies. These policies set a myriad of access controls including requiring end user authentication and restricting maker privileges.

You can also leverage granular sharing for MCS agent scenarios. Initially, you are equipped with the ability to prevent owners and editor from sharing further editor or viewer permissions. Moreover, you can limit the ability to share an agent with additional viewers to a finite number of individuals, to security groups, or to no one else.

Further, agents have a secure connection to Azure at the authentication layer. With Managed Identity support for MCS, you have seamless access to Azure resources without needing to manage credentials like secrets and certificates, ensuring strict access controls.

How can I ensure that the data leveraged by my agents remains within the boundaries of my organization?

Microsoft Power Platform has a rich ecosystem of connectors, many of which can be leveraged as agentic knowledge sources or actions in MCS. To mitigate risk of data exfiltration to any external sources via those connectors, admins are equipped with data policies to allow or block connectors on a per environment basis.

Network controls can be leveraged to ensure that your organization’s data remains safe from exfiltration. With network isolation support for MCS, connectivity with your agents remains secure as over-exposure of Azure resources is prevented with the private preview of Azure Virtual Network support for MCS. Additionally, with the new private preview enhancements of IP firewall, user access to both Dataverse and MCS can be easily restricted to only a secure allowlist of IP locations.

MCS also supports connections to Azure Application Insights over private endpoint, ensuring utmost privacy while leveraging the valuable visibility into agentic performance that’s crucial for managing custom agents.

How can I stay aware of any misuse of or attacks upon my agents?

Intelligent threat protection and robust data protection mechanisms are crucial in safely leveraging agents. Microsoft Purview offers cohesive solutions for managing agents via Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI, a central management location for proactively monitoring agents that empowers you with data protection policies and compliance support. With data assessments, you can easily identify potential risks such as unprotected sensitive assets as knowledge sources, a surplus in user count interacting with sensitive information, or exfiltration risks like file migration. Built in recommendations are provided to guide you on how to quickly create sensitivity labels to protect your SharePoint-grounded agents or adopt default policies for an easy default security stance.

How can I stay compliant with new regulations?

Managed security capabilities also take into consideration regional, industry-specific, and organizational compliance requirements for AI-adoption. Copilot audit logging to Microsoft Purview captures interactions and activities within the environment, including user commands, responses, and any administrative actions taken. These logs are securely accessible through the Microsoft Purview compliance portal, ensuring thorough auditing and compliance checks.

Further, a feature called customer lockbox ensures protection of your business data by restricting the access that Microsoft support engineers have during support requests. With lockbox enabled, restricted “just-in-time” temporary access is granted only upon admin approval.

On top of the tools you can leverage to remain compliant, MCS abides by the numerous Azure-wide compliance certifications adhering to required legal and regulatory standards.

Security is a shared responsibility. How do I empower makers to maintain security best practices, too?

The weight of security should not rest on admins alone. So, MCS equips makers with ample tools to ensure they are building safe solutions while abiding by and aligning with the guardrails that admins set for them. Directly from MCS, makers have the flexibility to adjust settings in accordance with the business needs, without introducing risk. At publishing time, MCS performs security assessments of the solution and makers are alerted about any security concerns they can address before moving forward. These can include crucial security considerations like end user authentication requirements and sharing controls.

With all of this to be considered, how do I know if I am successful as an IT admin?

With managed security, you are empowered with a seamless security posture management experience. With the Power Platform admin center’s security score, you can quantitatively determine the efficacy of the security guardrails in place. To improve your security score, you are equipped with the opinionated recommendations of advisor natively in the Power Platform admin center, guiding you on the next steps for dynamically managing and protecting agents as your organization’s adoption scales.

How can I scale my agentic governance strategy?

Managed governance ensures scalable management of agents, empowering admins with efficient controls based on valuable insights, proactive guidance, and tooling to mitigate risk with enforceable environment strategies.

What visibility do I have into agentic usage and management?

Comprehensive visibility is key to scaling AI adoption. The Copilot hub in the Power Platform admin center brings unrivaled visibility into agentic activity across the suite of business applications. Copilot hub equips you with insights not only into MCS usage, but also Copilot usage across Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Pages. This view provides incredible insights into adoption patterns, allowing you to drive adoption strategies to maximize Copilot value for your organization

Given those insights, what should I consider for agentic environment strategy?

Efficiency and environment cleanliness is critical in an AI-ready environment strategy. With environment routing for MCS, makers are automatically routed to a safe, personal developer environment. This ensures stress-free management knowing that makers’ agentic solutions will not conflict with others in the default environment.

Do I have guidance on growing my governance strategy at enterprise scale?

Proactive and reactive governance is made simple with advisor paving the way, providing pointed guidance on measures to both attain and maintain smooth management of your agents.

Many of the settings that advisor may recommend are available at your fingertips as scalable governance rules, with the addition of Copilot-specific guardrails that can be easily applied across your environment groups. One crucial example is the enablement or disablement of AI prompts rule, empowering you to decide if custom or prebuilt prompts can be leveraged across various scenarios within your environment groups.

How can I manage licensing and capacity for agentic usage?

With managed governance, a seamless and flexible Pay-as-You-Go (PayGo) experience for Microsoft MCS is available directly in the Power Platform admin center ensuring simple and frictionless capacity management. With the new experience, you have the flexibility of setting PayGo metering by product type, ensuring only specified workloads are impacting the PayGo budget. Further, with granular allocation, you can divvy capacity between specific environments ensuring smooth operation across all business units while maintaining independence between disparate workloads.

Enable enterprise-grade security and governance for Microsoft Copilot Studio agents

Organizations can accelerate the integration of AI agents into their workforce by leveraging the robust governance and security features provided by Microsoft Power Platform. With managed security, you can ensure that your agents are protected against threats and comply with industry standards. Managed governance offers comprehensive visibility and capacity management, enabling you to scale AI adoption efficiently. By harnessing these advanced capabilities, your organization can confidently embrace AI-driven innovation. Stay ahead of the curve and empower your workforce with the transformative potential of AI agents, backed by the unparalleled management of Microsoft Power Platform.

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As a result, mastering how to instruct AI models effectively is now crucial to unlocking tangible results and boosting productivity in the AI age. New tools are emerging that empower users to fully leverage AI’s potential. One such tool is the AI Prompt Builder, an advanced capability included in Power Automate. This feature allows users to craft precise instructions and choose the most suitable model for each task, whether automating information extraction from e-mails using GPT-4o mini or enabling agents to analyze customer feedback with o1 to identify pain points. Through this prompt engineering interface, organizations can customize AI to behave exactly as needed for their unique business scenarios. 

AI Prompts provide structured instructions to improve AI results 

AI Prompts provide structured instructions that guide large language models (LLMs) to perform specific tasks. This technique, known as instruction tuning, allows businesses to optimize AI-generated responses for more precise, relevant, and useful outputs. By clarifying directives, instruction tuning reduces ambiguity and enhances consistency across automated and agentic workflows. With AI Prompts, organizations can also ground models in their enterprise data—respecting runtime user permissions and data policies—so they can securely draw insights from internal resources. By carefully crafting prompts, businesses can extract higher-value insights, automate complex processes, and improve AI alignment with organizational goals.

We are excited to announce that AI Prompts can now leverage the o1 model, unlocking reasoning capabilities for your AI-driven workflows. For instance, imagine a customer support scenario in which agents need to analyze complex troubleshooting data—like error logs or past support tickets—to pinpoint the root cause of an issue. By tapping into o1’s powerful logic and chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, agents can rapidly identify patterns, suggest tailored solutions, and offer clear next steps for resolution. This enhanced approach not only streamlines support operations but also elevates the overall customer experience. The o1 reasoning model in AI Prompt Builder, currently in private preview, will be available to all customers in March.

How to configure AI Prompts 

AI prompts leverage several key features to create specialized AI-powered functions. They include: 

• Customizable Instructions: Users can tailor prompts to address unique business needs, ensuring AI-generated content aligns with specific workflows and objectives. 

• Dynamic Input Handling: AI Prompts can integrate input variables and contextual data, making responses more relevant and adaptable based on real-time information. 

• Model Selection for Tasks: Users have the flexibility to choose the right AI model for specific tasks, optimizing performance and accuracy based on the desired outcome. 

• Knowledge and RAG with Dataverse Data: AI Prompts can leverage knowledge retrieval and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to contextualize prompts with relevant data from Dataverse, ensuring more informed and accurate AI responses. 

• Document and Image Processing: AI Prompts can handle document and image inputs, enabling AI-driven workflows to extract insights, summarize content, and interpret visual data. 

• Configurable Output Formatting: Responses can be structured in JSON format, allowing seamless integration into applications that require standardized data outputs like Power Automate. 

For more details on leveraging these features to craft effective prompts, download our Prompt Guide. 

Real world applications of AI Prompts 

AI Prompts enable an endless number of scenarios and can apply to a multitude of industries and processes. Some of the most common use cases our customers are implementing include: 

• Document Processing – AI Prompts can automate document extraction, categorization, and summarization, making handling large volumes of text-based content more efficient. 

• Email Classification and Auto-Reply – AI Prompts can analyze incoming emails, categorize them based on intent, and generate automated responses to streamline communication. 

• Automated Content Summarization – AI Prompts can be configured to extract key insights from lengthy documents or emails, making it easier to digest critical information efficiently. 

• Data Transformation – AI Prompts can be used to convert raw data into structured formats, improving data consistency and usability. 

Building on the sample scenarios above, The AI Builder Prompt Library offers a curated set of ready-made prompts designed to help you rapidly create AI-driven results. With practical examples and step-by-step guidance, these resources streamline prompt engineering—enabling you to craft precise instructions, simplify workflows, and optimize AI-driven initiatives. 

Getting Started with AI Prompts 

Ready to transform your business processes with advanced AI tools? 

With AI Prompts, you have access to the latest AI models, enterprise-grade security, and a powerful instruction building playground. Start supercharging your flows and agents with these AI tools today! 

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Confidently drive enterprise scale on the managed platform  

In the modern digital era, the opportunity for innovation by leveraging organizational data in AI-driven scenarios is at an unprecedented high. We recently introduced autonomous agents which can operate independently, dynamically plan, and learn over time. These new agents are rapidly increasing in complexity and widely distributed across the organization:  

• Knowledge: connect to 1300+ Power Platform connectors from the Power Platform ecosystem.
• Actions: evolving from retrieval only to automatically performing tasks on your behalf. 
• Channels: published to multiple internal and external channels (beyond the boundaries of Microsoft 365 Copilot). 

As AI-driven scenarios continue to grow, IT admins are architecting the next wave of innovation in their enterprises by embracing managed platform features to meet modern data demands. With the security-first capabilities provided in Power Platform’s managed platform features, the possibilities for your business are endless. 

• Managed Security: In the Power Platform Admin Center, Security Hub is the one stop shop for IT admins to enable AI-powered enterprise security management at scale. In Security Hub, IT admins can monitor their Security Score, which compiles many of our best practices and recommendations, evaluates how your tenant stacks against our recommendations into a single score, and suggests actions to boost your tenant’s security posture.
• Managed Governance: In the Power Platform Admin Center, boost innovation while managing risk (Copilot Hub) and getting visibility into usage patterns for ROI analysis (Licensing Hub). Copilot Hub for agent administration is the central location for agent readiness, governance, and usage. Licensing Hub simplifies management of licensing, capacity, and overages. To learn more about Dataverse capacity management, read this blog on how we now enable PayGo for overages.  
• Managed Operations: In the Power Platform Admin Center (for admins) and Maker Portal (for makers), we have Monitoring Hub to observe and maintain optimal operations by managing changes to production environments, detect and remediate incidents, and maintain business continuity.

Hear how we manage risk at Microsoft from MS IT. Read the full blog on how Power Platform Admin Center simplifies security and governance experience.  

Customize AI agents with enterprise knowledge in Copilot Studio 

As AI changes the ways we work, traditional workflows are getting reimagined as business process-oriented agents. In the same vein, enterprise data becomes valuable knowledge that agents can use to extend the range of functionality. However, even as makers are building more apps and agents than ever before, the majority of enterprise data still remains untapped. That’s changing with Copilot Studio, which ingests a range of data sources as “knowledge” to customize your agent including:  

• Productivity data from Microsoft Graph (Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, etc.).
• Line of Business data from Microsoft Dataverse and third-party data from external sources (Salesforce, Zendesk, ServiceNow). 
• Pro-code assets from Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Search, and Azure SQL. 

When incorporating these sources of enterprise data as knowledge, a customized agent is created, as demonstrated in Peppermint’s Personal Injury Claims agent demo. By integrating these data sources, businesses can accelerate business processes and drive transformative growth. 

Automate e-mail, doc, and image processing with GPT with AI Builder

Much of the new, incoming enterprise data is unstructured data from documents (see examples below), emails, images, audio, video, and text that will require analysis. And even today, most of our business processes remain heavily document centric. To address this challenge, AI Builder enables makers to optimize document workflows through process automation so you can gain insights from your unstructured data. 

To manage and process incoming documents, we announced new additions to enhance existing document process workflows (Custom Document with Azure Document Intelligence 4.0) for enhanced performance and confidence scoring.  

Additionally, we announced Document Processing with GPT. GPT can facilitate document processing which eliminates the need to label data and train new models. With AI Builder, makers can build and customize AI Prompts to:  

• Extract information from documents. 
• Detect the language used in text.  
• Recognize text in an image or PDF (multimodality). 

And much more. To quickly get started, choose from a variety of prebuilt prompts in Prompt Library. Makers can also customize prompts with enterprise knowledge from Dataverse.  

Watch an end-to-end document processing workflow in:  

• Power Automate (Customer support demo) to categorize, translate, redirect, draft, and respond to incoming customer service emails. 
• Power Apps (Lost and Found demo) to describe a lost item based on an image and match that description to a database containing reports of lost items.  

AI Builder powered by GPT has transformed the way makers tap into their organization’s unstructured data by building end-to-end document processing workflows. AI Builder understands incoming documents, uses knowledge from Dataverse, and completes the workflow on your behalf. To learn more, read AI Builder’s announcements Ignite blog.  

Gain direct access to data for AI app development and analytics with Microsoft Power Platform and Snowflake   

We jointly announced an expanded partnership to enable bidirectional access between Microsoft Dataverse, the data layer of Power Platform, and Snowflake. This new Snowflake Power Platform connector enables developers and business users to:  

• Leverage data in Snowflake directly from the Power Platform. Developers can now build end-to-end business applications with their data in Snowflake, removing the operational burden of managing custom workflows. Users can create a Dataverse virtual table from Snowflake (demo).  
• Access data in Dynamics 365 and Power Platform from Snowflake to take full advantage of the AI Data Cloud to improve analytic insights and harness the power of enterprise AI.

See how it works and hear from SKF, a global manufacturing leader, on how they have implemented the connector and are experiencing faster time-to-value by removing some of the operational complexities of data integration. Together, Microsoft + Snowflake simplify data collaboration, enhance business insights, and harness the power of AI for our customers’ business needs. 

Recap 

Dataverse is the enterprise data platform for makers to add grounded enterprise data and make agents actionable. By building on Dataverse, makers can: 

1. Enable scale and reduce risk through a managed platform including managed security, managed governance, and managed operations. 
2. Incorporate knowledge from across your enterprise including productivity data, Line of Business data, and pro code assets.
3. Easily build business process workflows with GPT from unstructured data including documents, emails, images, audio, video, and text.
4. Tap into 1300+ Power Platform connectors (including the enhanced Snowflake connector) from the growing Power Platform ecosystem.  

Learn more about Microsoft Dataverse: 

• Podcast: Low Code Approach | Microsoft  
• Webpage: Microsoft Dataverse | Microsoft Power Platform 
• Documentation: What is Microsoft Dataverse? – Power Apps | Microsoft Learn  

Check out other great sessions to catch up on: 

• Keynote: Microsoft Ignite Keynote with Satya Nadella 
• Keynote: Unlock the Value of Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio 
• Breakout: What’s new with Copilot Studio and agents 
• Breakout: Ground Microsoft 365 Copilot in your business knowledge 
• Breakout: Reinventing business processes with autonomous agents 
• Breakout: The Future of Power Platform: Intelligent Apps 
• Breakout: The spectrum of agents with Copilot Studio  
• Breakout: Extending Microsoft 365 Copilot with Copilot agents: Best practices 

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Effective Dataverse capacity management is a key priority for IT and business administrators. With the latest updates to the Power Platform Admin Center,

1. Capacity management is now more streamlined and flexible, offering admins precise control over resource allocation
2. Pay-as-You-Go (PayGo) option is now available to enable scalability

Storage allocation

The foundation of the enhanced capacity management experience lies in granular allocation. Admins can now pre-allocate Dataverse capacity directly to specific environments, ensuring business units and teams operate with the resources they need while maintaining independence from other workloads. 

For example, in a tenant shared by multiple business units, you can now guarantee a specific amount of capacity being available to a given unit. This prevents resource conflicts and ensures that critical workloads receive priority. Admins no longer need to manually monitor or redistribute resources as demands evolve. Instead, capacity can automatically be drawn from the tenant pool for environments with higher demands. 

This precision-driven approach ensures optimal resource usage across the tenant, eliminating inefficiencies like overprovisioning and underutilization.

Overage management with PayGo  

While pre-allocation provides robust control, unexpected surges in demand can still occur. To address these situations, the Power Platform Admin Center now seamlessly integrates a Pay-as-You-Go (PayGo) option with the allocation experience. 

The new experience also supports Microsoft Copilot Studio, providing a streamlined approach to managing message capacity. This integration ensures that admins can efficiently manage messaging workloads alongside other capacity resources, further enhancing overall system flexibility. 

When environments approach their allocated capacity limits, admins receive proactive notifications and can choose how to address overages: 

• Switching to PayGo for Specific Workloads: Admins have the option to selectively enable PayGo metering for specific product to the PayGo Azure subscription, ensuring that only certain product usage in the designated environments incur charges for PayGo. This eliminates concerns about other workloads unintentionally impacting the PayGo budget. 

• Depleting Pre-Paid Capacity First: The flexibility to combine pre-paid capacity with PayGo in the same environment ensures that businesses can fully utilize their pre-purchased resources before incurring any additional costs. This approach avoids being billed at PayGo rates for all usage in the environment, maintaining cost efficiency. 

For admins needing stricter governance, options for programmatic hard limits on environment consuming capacity can prevent overages entirely, ensuring compliance and budget control. 

Set up PayGo with consumption experience

Setting up PayGo is now a seamless process, thanks to new user experience improvements in the Power Platform Admin Center. Admins can effortlessly: 

• Select the appropriate Azure subscription and resource groups to ensure alignment with organizational policies. 

• Configure selective metering with clarity, choosing only the workloads or environments that should transition to PayGo when needed. 

• The improved consumption dashboard offers real-time insights into usage patterns, billing trends, and capacity consumption, empowering admins to make data-driven decisions. Additionally, Admins can view billing details, allocate charges, and set spending alerts directly in the Azure portal. 

By combining granular allocation with the flexibility of Pay-as-You-Go and the transparency of detailed consumption reporting, the Power Platform Admin Center has the tools your need to: 

• Optimize resource utilization across all environments. 

• Scale seamlessly for unplanned surges while maintaining governance. 

• Eliminate inefficiencies, reduce manual overhead, and enhance cost predictability. 

This comprehensive approach ensures that any business can manage the capacity needs of their business without compromising the speed of growth and innovation on the Power Platform. 

Learn more about Dataverse

• Get started with PayGo
• Listen to Low code approach podcast 
• Read Dataverse webpage 
• Read Dataverse documentation 

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We are excited to announce that the Copilot hub in the Power Platform Admin Center is now generally available for all commercial customers! All Power Platform admins have access to the Copilot hub, designed to empower admins by providing a centralized location for usage insights, governance controls, and readiness resources. Whether you are looking to monitor usage, configure Copilot settings, or access key documentation, the Copilot hub makes it easy for you to do just that. Start exploring and learn how to get started here. 

What can I expect to find on the Copilot hub? 

Managing Copilot features across the Power Platform just got a whole lot easier. The Copilot hub in the Power Platform Admin Center is designed to give admins a comprehensive toolkit for gaining insights, ensuring readiness, and maintaining control over Copilot capabilities. Here’s an overview of the three core sections in the Copilot hub. 

Readiness: Your Go-To Resource Hub 

The readiness section is your central location for understanding everything about Copilot in the Power Platform. It’s packed with educational resources to help Power Platform admins understand how Copilot works and provides a clear view into our data and security fundamentals for Copilot features. It also highlights resources around Microsoft’s unwavering commitment to Responsible AI, ensuring that the technology adheres to ethical principles and safeguards user trust. But that’s not all – staying informed is crucial in today’s fast-evolving landscape. The Readiness section features announcements of new Power Platform Copilot releases, ensuring Power Platform admins are up to date on the latest enhancements and capabilities. This section equips you to enable Copilot features in your organizations with confidence.  

Usage: Tracking Adoption Made Simple 

Understanding how and where Copilot is being used in your organization is essential for effective management and planning – and that is where the Usage section shines. This area provides Power Platform admins with metrics on Copilot adoption across key areas of the Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, and Copilot Studio. These insights enable admins to identify patterns, drive adoption strategies, and maximize the value of Copilot for their organizations. 

Governance: Centralized Control at your Fingertips 

Managing and maintaining oversight of Power Platform Copilot features is made easier than ever now, thanks to the insights and tools available in the Governance section. The Governance section is designed to give Power Platform admins full visibility into Copilot features through insights and tools to monitor and manage feature availability across environments. Here’s what you’ll find: 

• A detailed breakdown of Copilot features: Gain a clear view of all Copilot capabilities and identify which environments they’re enabled in. This transparency helps admins ensure consistency and compliance across the organization.  

• Settings grouped by product level for easy management: Settings are organized by product – Power Platform, Copilot Studio, Power Apps, and Power Automate – making navigation intuitive and efficient. Need to adjust Copilot feature availability for a specific product area? A convenient side pane lets you update Copilot environment- and tenant-level settings without leaving the Copilot hub, simplifying the entire process.  

• Content moderation for Responsible AI Insights: The Governance section goes beyond settings – it also provides information on how Microsoft’s Responsible AI principles are put in practice across the Microsoft Power Platform. This helps admins understand the safeguards in place to maintain ethical and responsible AI practices.  

With these tools, the Governance section enables admins to efficiently tailor Power Platform Copilot settings to meet the unique needs of their organization, while maintaining full transparency and control. 

Why does this matter and what is next? 

As AI-powered capabilities continue to redefine how people work, the demand for streamlined governance and insightful analytics grows. The Copilot hub in the Power Platform Admin Center is designed to meet this growing need, offering a centralized location for resources that enables admins to embrace innovation, while ensuring compliance, security, and responsible AI practices.  

The journey doesn’t stop here – this is just the beginning for the Copilot hub in the Power Platform Admin Center. We’re committed to evolving the Copilot hub with richer insights and enhanced controls to continue to support admins in governing Power Platform Copilot features. As we roll out new updates and capabilities, we’ll keep you informed every step of the way.  

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Why This Change? 

Managed environments empowers customers with critical tools for comprehensive governance, advanced security, and streamlined operations management to enhance oversight across the entire platform. Managed environments capabilities remain a benefit of existing premium licenses, and any environment with managed features requires the users of any of the assets in that environment to have a premium license. However, there’s been some confusion in the past about whether apps and flows with standard features in a managed environment require the same user to have both a Power Apps and Power Automate license to be compliant. It is not our intention to “double charge” for these features, so we’re updating the Power Platform licensing guide to clarify that as long as all active users are appropriately licensed with at least one premium license, managed environments features will work, and customers will be compliant. 

With these updates, we’re taking steps to remove a key hurdle and offer a licensing model that better aligns with the way you use the Power Platform every day. 

What’s Changing? 

We will be updating the Power Platform licensing guide to clarify that as long as all active users are appropriately licensed with at least one premium license, a Power Apps Premium or a Power Automate Premium, managed environments features will work, and customers will be compliant.  

Customers with Power Apps Premium or Power Automate Premium user licenses are eligible to use managed environments capabilities to govern all the apps and flows in the environment. This enables your organization to strengthen governance and security using the full capabilities of managed environments. For example, if your organization assigns premium Power Apps (or premium Power Automate) licenses to all active employees, managed environments can be activated across all environments organization wide including the Default environment. (See FAQ section for more information) 

These updates are designed for Power Platform’s user-based licenses, such as Power Apps Premium and Power Automate Premium. Capacity-based licenses (e.g., Power Automate Process, Copilot Studio messages, or Dataverse capacity) remain excluded from this change to ensure the premium experience remains consistent and valuable.  

No Change for Premium Assets

Premium flows and apps will continue to require dedicated premium licenses, regardless of the environment they’re in. This ensures stability in customer expectations and budgeting.

How Does This Benefit You? 

This streamlined licensing model opens managed environments for even more users, helping organizations adopt critical governance and security features without requiring additional licenses. Here’s how: 

• Enhanced Control and Security 
  Managed environments allow you to apply advanced data policies, create safe environments, and manage resources effectively across departments. With simplified access, it’s now easier to keep your data and workflows secure. 
• Reduced Complexity 
  By aligning managed environments capabilities directly with existing Power Platform Premium licenses, you’ll save on the time and cost of navigating additional license requirements for critical governance features. 
• Greater Flexibility for Growing Organizations 
  For organizations expanding their use of Power Platform across teams, these changes mean more seamless scaling without increased licensing costs for essential governance features. 

What’s Next? 

Our goal with this update is to make managed environment capabilities accessible to a broader range of customers. This licensing change is a direct response to customer feedback, and we’ll continue to evaluate ways to improve managed environments and Power Platform governance in response to your evolving needs. 

Stay tuned for more details during Microsoft Ignite on November 19th and be sure to reach out to your Microsoft account representative if you have any questions on how this update can benefit your organization.

FAQ

Q: How do the changes to the managed environment licensing model impact my existing Power Apps and Power Automate licenses? 

A: These changes allow customers to assign their existing premium Licenses more easily and consume them fully, before they need to acquire more licenses. 

Q: Do all users in a managed Environment need a premium license even if they are not directly interacting with flows or apps? 

A: No, this doesn’t change, only active users in managed environments that are generating activity by launching an app or running a flow are required to have a premium license assigned. 

Q: What is the expected license behavior if a user is assigned a Power Apps Premium and Power Automate Premium while running basic on in-context Flows only? 

A: If a user is assigned both a Power Apps Premium and Power Automate Premium but only running basic or in-context flows, the Power Apps premium covers this activity, the Power Automate premium provides additional flexibility for any premium flows. 

Q: What types of activities are considered basic flows in managed environments, and how are they covered under this new model? 

A: All Standard Standalone flows hosted in managed environment that got created via the Power Automate Studio or outside of the studio (via SPO, Teams, Outlook…) are basic flows in managed environment that can be run if the user has a Power Apps Premium license, or a Power Automate Premium license.  

Q: Flow using SQL in an environment used by a user with a Power Apps Premium; Does the user need an Automate Premium License? 

A: Yes, they need a Power Automate License. When the flow is not running in the context of a Power App and is using a premium connector like SQL, then a Power Automate Premium license is required. The Power Apps Premium licenses does not cover standalone cloud flows with premium connectors unless the flow is directly associated with or triggered by the Power App. 

Q: Desktop flow in managed environment with desktop DLP used by a user with a Power Apps Premium. Does the user need an Automate Premium License? 

A: Yes, they need a Power Automate Premium License. Desktop Flows (RPA) require a Power Automate Premium License, regardless of the user’s Power Apps license. The Power Apps Premium license does not cover desktop automation or RPA scenarios. 

Q: User with a Power Automate Premium License that starts to use a premium Power App; 
Do they need a Power Apps Premium license? 

A: Yes, they need Power Apps license. A Power Automate Premium license does not include access to Premium Power Apps. To use Apps in managed environment or to use premium Power Apps (Apps with Dataverse or premium connectors), the user must also have a Power Apps Premium license. 
Note: If the user was assigned the premium Power Automate licenses just to use basic flows in a managed environment (vs. for the use of RPA or premium flows), admins can remove that assignment once the Power App Premium is assigned. 

Q: A user with a Power App Premium license creates a new standalone flow via Power Automate studio and the flow only uses standard connectors (SharePoint, Outlook…).  
Does the user need a Power Automate Premium? 

A: No, Power Automate is not required. Standard flows do not require an additional premium license, so the user can run the flow in a managed environment using their existing Power Apps Premium license. 

Q: A user sets up an independent flow in an environment that integrates with Dataverse as part of a data management process and not triggered by any Power App. Does the user need a Power Automate Premium License? 

A: Yes, a Power Automate Premium license is required.  Since the flow uses Dataverse, which is a premium connector, the user needs a Power Automate Premium license to use this flow when it is not in the context of a Power App. 

Q: A user with a Power Apps Premium license creates a flow using AI Builder (e.g., extracting text from documents) within an environment. Does the user need a Power Automate Premium license? 

A: Yes, a Power Automate Premium license is required. The use of AI Builder is considered a premium feature within Power Automate, so even though the user has Power Apps Premium license, they must also have a Power Automate Premium license to run flows with AI Builder capabilities. 

Q: A flow using a premium connector is shared with a team of 10 members. The flow runs within a managed environment, and all users need access to edit or trigger the flow. Some users have Power Apps Premium licenses, while others have Power Automate Premium licenses. What is required? 

A: All users who need to interact with or trigger the flow must have Power Automate Premium license. Power Apps Premium licenses do not cover editing or running a standalone flow with a premium connector outside the context of an app. 

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With over 48 million monthly users, Microsoft Power Platform is transforming how organizations deliver modern AI-powered customer experiences, improved employee satisfaction, and business results. Customers increasingly rely on the Power Platform to run global-scale, mission critical workloads, where the risk and business impact of failure are high. These workloads demand operational excellence: highly controlled change management to avoid unexpected disruptions to stability and quality, deep insights into ongoing operations to detect and resolve issues, and resiliency to recover from failures.

To address these needs, we are pleased to announce Power Platform managed operations, a suite of capabilities to empower organizations of all sizes to build, deploy, and operate their most critical workloads. Built with both existing and emerging AI-driven solutions in mind, these capabilities ensure stability and minimize disruption while maximizing the productivity of operations teams.

Application Lifecycle Management  

A 2023 study from the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) highlights that fixing bugs after deployment can be up to 30 times more expensive than addressing them during the requirements, design phase, or pre-production stage.

Managed operations ensure high-quality releases with a comprehensive, integrated set of DevOps tools. New deployment experiences allow organizations to scale through admin-approved deployment pipelines. Deployment approvals are streamlined with notes that describe what is deploying to production. These deployment experiences make it easier than ever to detect, root cause, and resolve deployment failures. Further, deployments can also extend to include your custom processes, such as performance optimization checks or data validation workflows. Deployments performed by a service principal account maintain least privileged access to production environments. Also, available to run standalone or as a part of a deployment is Power Apps Test Engine, which is currently in preview, it executes test automations on standalone canvas apps and it simplifies testing with features like Power Fx-based YAML test authoring, DOM abstraction for control references, and connector mocking to avoid API side effects. These change management capabilities maximize the reliability of your applications, flows, and agents in production.

Observability and Insights 

Managed operations enable teams to quickly detect, triage, and respond to issues to minimize impact on end-user experiences or your business processes. New monitoring experiences provide out-of-box metrics that represent end-user experiences or successful use of technology supporting your business processes. These metrics help detect production degradations and are complimented by in-product recommendations that provide actionable guidance to improve performance and reliability. These new monitoring experiences are available without dependency on Azure Application Insights or Azure Data Lake. However, built-in integration with these services is also available to easily ingest and process Power Platform and Dynamics 365 logs with Azure Application Insights. With Dataverse integration with Fabric Shortcuts, now available in early private preview, you can instantly bring D365/Power Platform inventory into Fabric, ensuring that your teams have the most up-to-date information at their fingertips. This streamlined access accelerates insights, enhances decision-making, and simplifies data management, empowering you to make impactful, data-driven choices faster than ever before.

Built for Data Resilience 

In today’s data-driven world, ensuring data resilience is essential for businesses operating at a global scale. Managed operations enable organizations to protect and recover their data seamlessly with a range of flexible backup and retention capabilities: 

• Extended Backup Retention: Customers can now extend their backup retention from seven to 28 days. Learn more.
• Self-serve Disaster Recovery: Self-serve disaster recovery is now available in private preview. Admin can perform a Disaster recovery drill or real time “Emergency response” failover and failback with this feature. Join the early preview.
• Recycle Bin for Table Records: Users may delete records or transactions intentionally or accidentally, through both manual and automated processes, including single, multiple, or bulk deletions. The new recycle bin feature, currently in preview, addresses challenges in recovering deleted data within a configurable timeframe, providing a safety net to intentional or accidental data loss. Learn more. 
• Long-Term Retention: A table can be enabled for a long-term data retention policy. All parent and associated child activities, emails, attachments are retained as a set when you set up a policy on a parent table. Customers can use retention policies to securely store inactive and or infrequently used data long-term in Azure Data Lake tiers, providing a cost-effective solution for archiving while ensuring compliance and easy access. Learn more 

Together, these features strengthen data resilience by offering flexible, scalable backup and retention solutions, empowering businesses to safeguard their data reliably and efficiently. 

Empowering Enterprises to Operate with Confidence 

Managed operations represents a new era in application management, enabling enterprises to support mission-critical workloads at scale in an evolving digital landscape. It is time to take advantage of the Microsoft Power Platform’s AI-driven potential in your enterprise. Get started now with confidence knowing that you are backed by the dynamic and resilient capabilities of managed operations at your disposal.

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The Microsoft Power Platform empowers you to address both priorities with ease. With the release of managed security for Microsoft Power Platform, it is simple to balance both AI-adoption and top-tier data protection. This new suite provides industry-leading capabilities for protecting all your organization’s assets, ranging from mission critical workloads to citizen-developed resources to cutting-edge AI-powered agents. Managed security delivers security controls to ensure safe and scalable adoption business applications, Copilots, and agents: 

• Security Posture Management: Intelligent guidance for scalable and efficient enterprise-grade security. 
• Threat Protection: AI-powered detection and monitoring to address and prevent security risks.
• Data Protection and Privacy: Robust controls to ensure confidentiality and encryption, ensuring security of sensitive information.  
• Identity and Access Management: Seamless and adaptive tools to ensure only authorized resource and data access.
• Compliance: Assured visibility and adherence to industry and regional regulatory requirements.  

With managed security, Microsoft Power Platform empowers businesses with advanced protection to harness their AI-potential with confidence and ease. 

Security Posture Excellence 

The Power Platform admin center has been redesigned to deliver a seamless , world-class security management experience to administer your organization at scale with greater visibility, pointed guidance, and simplified controls. The new generally available security page experience in the Power Platform admin center, makes it easy to discover and navigate the range of capabilities which managed security provides. With actionable insights and opinionated guidance, this single pane of glass empowers administrators to effortlessly view and manage security tasks, assess their tenant’s security posture, and implement proactive policies across network security, access control, compliance, and threat detection. With the security score, illustrated on a qualitative scale (Low, Medium, High), you can get a comprehensive understanding of your organization’s security posture. Then, you can act on timely and tailored recommendations to improve your tenant’s security score configuring both proactive and reactive security guardrails, prioritized by level of risk.

Threat protection 

As dependency on digital technology and integration with AI to fuel enterprise solutions grows, so does cybercrime. The frequency of data breaches across the globe has increased year over year reaching new all-time highs. But with managed security, you can feel confident that your organization remains secure against these evolving threats, equipped with AI-powered, real-time detection enabled through integration with Microsoft Sentinel. This cloud-native security information event and management platform equips admins to have a comprehensive security and monitoring solution that intelligently detect and respond to suspicious activities such as mass data deletion or app execution from unauthorized geographies.

Data protection and privacy

Managed security provides a robust selection of controls to ensure that your data is protected with confidentiality and integrity. Building on the core capabilities provided in the Power Platform such as end to end encryption, Dataverse security, tenant isolation and data loss prevention policies, managed security equips admins with additional proactive safeguards and capabilities to prevent avenues for data leakage.

To mitigate the risk of data exfiltration through plug-ins and connectors, you can leverage network security to protect both inbound and outbound traffic. . Power Platform now supports Virtual Network (vNet) integration for both connectors and Dataverse plug-ins including Microsoft Copilot Studio integrations, providing private, outbound connectivity from the Power Platform to resources within your vNet. By limiting the resources in your Power Platform environment to only access an Azure Virtual Network, you can ensure that your Power Platform resources are protected without overexposure to the internet or unauthorized access, enhancing security when extending your business processes. We are continuing to invest in expanding the vNet supported scenarios and are excited to announce the public preview support to the Snowflake connector. Enterprises will be able to use this connector to securely access their Snowflake data without the need to exposing the data over internet.

For scenarios that leverage PII such as credit card numbers or social security numbers, you can create data masking rules to ensure that your organization’s and customer’s sensitive data is protected. With data masking, also referred to as de-identification or obfuscation, sensitive data is replaced with masked strings, ensuring that the original values remain hidden. Only authorized users can access unmasked data, only one record at a time, ensuring that data is treated with utmost sensitivity. Safeguard your data by leveraging an existing, pre-defined rule, or creating your own as a solution.

In addition, customer managed keys (CMK) ensure that data is not only protected both in transit and at rest, but also give organizations control over their encryption keys for enhancing data security. Advanced connector policies, now available in early preview, enable a scalable approach to managing which connectors are allowed or blocked. With support for environment group level configurations, this new capability addresses the strong demand for managing data policies (DLP) at environment group level, enabling a more streamlined governance strategy. Additionally, any connector, including those previously considered non-blockable, can now be restricted, ensuring comprehensive control over data access and security. Lastly, the integration of Microsoft Purview with Microsoft Dataverse enables powerful security capabilities. With the Microsoft Purview Data Map, you can benefit from automated data discovery and sensitive data classification, gain a deeper understanding of your business applications data estate, safeguard your data, and enhance your risk and compliance posture.

Identity and Access Management

Managing access to sensitive information and resources is top of mind for IT admins and CISOs across industries and ensuring the least privilege access is paramount in maintaining a strong security stance. Power Platform is well-integrated with Entra ID for identity and access management, empowering admins to securely manage users and their interactions with various Power Platform resources. Managed security boasts an additional wealth of seamless capabilities built upon Entra ID offering granular control to ensure that your data and resources are only viewed by authorized users.

As the race to adopt AI is prioritized across industries, admins are looking to address the risk of over-sharing resources. Managed security supports granular sharing limits for canvas apps, and now expanding with generally available solution-aware cloud flows support preventing makers from sharing flows across security groups and with individuals. For Copilot Studio agent scenarios, a series of new controls are now available in preview: admins are equipped with fine-grained controls over editor versus viewer permissions on a per environment or environment group basis and can limit viewers to security groups, individuals, or a finite number of viewers.

Other key features available with managed security include support for filtering user access to resources only from pre-authorized network locations with IP firewall, which helps prevent unauthorized access and enhances network security. You can prevent user sessions being hijacked by malicious actors with IP cookie binding – which ties user sessions to specific IP addresses. Enhanced privileged access management ensures users have elevated permissions only when needed, reducing the risk of misuse and maintaining a strong security posture. Conditional access for canvas apps to enable administrators to set granular conditions under which users can access these types of resources, providing an additional level of flexibility and resource access control. To minimize the risk associated with accessing external resources, Managed Identities support for Dataverse plugins allows for secure and seamless authentication, eliminating the need for hard-coded credentials and simplifying the management of access to resources.

To further enhance security and reduce the risk of incidental over-sharing, a new control is now available on the security page to block or enable access by Entra guests to your Dataverse-backed environments as needed. By default, guest access is restricted for new Dataverse-backed environments, ensuring a secure setup from the start. With this new public preview feature, you can further boost your security score by enabling this setting for existing environments, too.

Compliance

Regional, industry-wide, and organization-specific regulations are top of mind as the race towards AI adoption continues. With managed security, you can feel confident that your organization’s business applications and copilots are meeting all compliance requirements including assured visibility, granular traceability, and comprehensive audits.  

With Dataverse audit capabilities in the Power Platform admin center, you can dive deeper with comprehensive logging capabilities, including admin, maker, and user activity logs, all critical for identifying potential security threats. By monitoring unusual activity, such as a sudden surge in login attempts or changes to security settings, you can easily detect and respond to attacks before they escalate. 

Microsoft Purview supports detailed auditing across Power Platform, including Copilot Studio events, to meet compliance requirements. It allows customized audit logs and provides detailed reports for AI-driven scenarios, enhancing security and compliance.

Moreover, to meet your enterprise’s compliance requirements with greater granularity, Dataverse offers robust data logging capabilities within managed security. This feature is essential for investigating security incidents and is designed to meet the external and internal auditing, compliance, security, and governance policies that are common to many enterprises. You can easily customize your Dataverse audit for a variety of entities and fields to ensure that you have comprehensive visibility into your data interactions, helping to maintain a secure and compliant environment.

Strengthen AI Adoption with a Security-First Mindset  

In the age of AI, IT admins are challenged to navigate a complex security landscape while architecting the next wave of innovation in their enterprises. With the security-first capabilities provided in Power Platform managed security, the possibilities for your business are endless.

Using these capabilities, enabled customers such Toyota to “establish a secure and agile integration foundation for Power Platform and Azure using Azure VNet, eliminating the need for an on-premises data gateway. This enabled Toyota to develop generative AI apps on an Enterprise-Ready architecture, balancing security and agility through collaboration between citizen developers and IT.” – Takanori Mito, IT Promotion Div. Toyota Motor Corp.

The Power Platform admin center provides visibility, pointed guidance, and scalable control for managing your organization’s business applications. Equipped with actionable recommendations, admins can protect their organization’s resources from any external threats and ensure that their sensitive data stays private and protected. With rich identity and user management, scalable and secure adoption is a reality. The time to tap into your enterprise’s transformative AI potential is now; dive in with the cutting edge and responsibly designed management tools of managed security features at your fingertips.

Learn More

• Learn more about managed operations
• Enterprise Scale: The future of Power Platform governance + security – Breakout session
• Latest updates with Microsoft Copilot Studio
• Latest updates with Microsoft Power Apps
• Latest updates with Microsoft Power Platform

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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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