What’s new since preview?

While the most impactful improvements are better reliability, performance, and usability, there’s many new and noteworthy capabilities.

• Disconnect from Git – You can easily disconnect your environment or solution from Git and reconnect to a different source code location or branch.
• Support for existing solutions and large solutions – These critical preview limitations are now addressed. Connect existing solutions in your environment and you won’t be limited by solution size when committing large solutions.
• Public API’s – Now you can interact with Git using Dataverse API’s and build automations to scale the process.
• Support for more object types – most solution components are now supported and we’re incrementally onboarding the remaining legacy components / objects.
• Delete when pulling – when an object is deleted in Git, you now have the option to delete it from your environment or remove from your solution on pull.
• Better user experiences – Git integration is available in Copilot studio (and other maker portals), with improved discoverability, usability, and columns showing who changed what and when.
• Geo availability – Git integration is GA in all public geos and coming soon to sovereign clouds.

Source Control your Canvas Apps

Dataverse Git Integration is the new standard, replacing the experimental Power Apps integration. If you’re still using the old setup, we recommend migrating to the new integration as soon as possible.

With Dataverse Git Integration, you get complete visibility into your source code – no conversions required. You can use pa.yaml files in your repository to manage source control and review changes made in Power Apps Studio, all without the clutter of noisy diffs.

The schema for canvas source code (pa.yaml files) is now published, and no breaking changes are anticipated moving forward.

What’s next?

General availability doesn’t indicate a feature is done – or that it’s without limitations. Rather, Microsoft is confident in the quality for production use. It’s important to evaluate whether current functionality meets your requirements.

Next up is unlocking code-first development. Soon, developer tools will support the new (YAML) format, which is easier to read, understand, and merge. Modern developers can then build and deploy solutions and code from source control with less effort and without prior domain knowledge.

For canvas apps, we will also start to enable (as preview) the capability to edit pa.yaml files directly in your repository.

We’ll be showing code-first demos at Microsoft Build next month, plus many other new and exciting Managed Operations and other capabilities.

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Microsoft Dataverse is a cloud-based, low-code solution that lets you securely store and manage data that’s used by business applications. With your data stored in Microsoft Dataverse, there are many ways to access or modify it. You can work with the data natively with tools such as Power Apps or Power Automate, or through connectors and APIs you can link to Microsoft Dataverse from any business solution. Dataverse was built for powerful, scalable solutions. 

Security In Dataverse 

The goals of the Dataverse security models are as follows: 

• To provide users with the access only to the appropriate levels of information that is required to do their jobs. 
• To categorize users by role and restrict access based on those roles. 
• To support data sharing so that users and teams can be granted access to records that they do not own for a specified collaborative effort. 

• To prevent a user’s access to records the user does not own or share. 

Why Choose Dataverse? 

• Security: Dataverse handles authentication with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to allow for conditional access and multi-factor authentication. It also provides rich auditing capabilities. 

• Logic: Dataverse allows you to easily apply business logic at the data level. Regardless of how a user is interacting with the data, the same rules apply. These rules could be related to duplicate detection, business rules, workflows, or more. 
• Data: Dataverse offers you the control to shape your data, allowing you to discover, model, validate, and report on your data. This control ensures your data looks the way you want regardless of how it is used. 
• Storage: Dataverse stores your physical data in the Azure cloud. This cloud-based storage removes the burden of worrying about where your data lives or how it scales.  
• Integration: Dataverse connects in different ways to support your business needs. Data exports and other tools give you the flexibility to get data in and out. 
• Auditing: The Dataverse auditing feature is designed to meet the external and internal auditing, compliance, security, and governance policies that are common to many enterprises. 

• Data Loss Prevention: The Power Platform and Dataverse protects your data with Microsoft Data Loss Prevention (DLP) both data at rest and in transit. 

Building Secure Hybrid Environments 

As organizations accelerate the transition to the cloud there is a higher need and reliance on advanced technologies when making business and operational decisions.  

• Connected: From anywhere in the world and at any time, your workers can access cloud-based services and data in your Microsoft 365 subscription and organizational resources, such as those offered by on-premises application data centers. 
• Secure: Sign-ins are secured with multi-factor authentication (MFA) and built-in security features supported by Azure AD which helps protect against malware, malicious attacks, and data loss. 
• Managed: Your hybrid worker’s devices can be managed from the cloud with security settings, allowed apps, and compliance with system health. 
• Collaborative and productive: Your hybrid workers can be as productive as on-premises in a highly collaborative way with online meetings and chat sessions with Teams, shared workspaces for cloud-based file storage with global accessibility and real-time collaboration with SharePoint and OneDrive, and shared tasks and workflows to divide up the work and get things done. 

Additional resources:

• Learn more about Dataverse Security features and capabilities covered in the Microsoft Dataverse Security white paper.  
• Learn more about the other Microsoft cloud solutions to help you build unified and seamless experiences across platforms.  

• Microsoft Azure 
• Microsoft 365 
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 

• Learn more about available licenses by downloading the Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide 

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