What's new and planned for Microsoft Power Platform governance and administration
This topic lists features that are planned to release from October 2024 through March 2025. Because this topic lists features that may not have released yet, delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released. For more information, go to Microsoft policy.
For a list of the previous wave's release plans, go to 2024 release wave 1 plan.
In the General availability column, the feature will be delivered within the month listed. The delivery date can be any day within that month. Released features show the full date, including the date of release.
This check mark (
) shows which features have been released for public preview or early access and for public preview, early access, and general availability.
Application lifecycle management
Streamline deployment, version control, and lifecycle management of applications and environments with this unified set of tools.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manage ALM at scale in the admin deployment hub | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jan 13, 2025 |
May 2025 |
| Set a default, deployment pipeline for development environments | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| View all pipelines and get recommendations in deployments hub | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jan 14, 2025 |
May 2025 |
| Associate dev environments in default deployment pipeline | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
Enterprise scale administration
Use an advanced user interface, API, and PowerShell tools for effective governance and management across Power Platform and Dynamics 365.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Use a modern UI when using Access team templates | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Sep 20, 2024 |
Feb 2025 |
| Use the Power Platform for Admins connector | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Nov 15, 2024 |
| Discover your tenant inventory of agents and more | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Jan 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| Govern critical environment settings as a tenant admin | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Jan 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| Use the new connector management rule | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Nov 18, 2024 |
Feb 2025 |
| Use management connector in Power Automate and Logic Apps | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Nov 30, 2023 |
Nov 15, 2024 |
| Use the new and improved Power Platform admin center | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Nov 18, 2024 |
May 2025 |
| Take advantage of enhancements to Power Platform Advisor | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | Mar 2025 |
Licensing and capacity
This feature offers enhanced license and capacity management with detailed insights, reports, and recommendations to optimize resources and cost.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manage currencies for pay-as-you-go licensing plans | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Nov 15, 2024 |
Feb 2025 |
Monitoring operational health
Monitor and improve operational health with insights on usage, performance, and reliability through detailed reports and scalable data export.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get insights into currency and storage consumption | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Dec 1, 2024 |
Feb 2025 |
Security and compliance
This feature offers robust, enterprise-grade security for Power Platform and Dynamics 365, ensuring compliance and visibility through proactive solutions.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Take advantage of expanded Virtual Network support | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Mar 2025 | May 2025 |
| Extend IP firewall to Microsoft Copilot Studio | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Feb 2025 | May 2025 |
| Manage table list views with security roles | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Feb 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Turn sharing off for solution-aware cloud flows | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - |
Dec 13, 2024 |
| Set up managed identity | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 2025 | May 2025 |
| Instantly revoke users and enforce restrictions | Users, automatically |
Jul 7, 2023 |
Mar 2025 |
| Use managed identities for Dataverse plug-ins | Users, automatically |
Aug 6, 2024 |
Mar 2025 |
| Enhance shared access signature calls to include IP restrictions | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Jul 16, 2024 |
Oct 1, 2024 |
| Permit or deny guest access to an environment | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Nov 18, 2024 |
May 2025 |
| Manage security posture in Power Platform admin center | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jun 30, 2024 |
Nov 30, 2024 |
| Encrypt data at rest | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Jan 2025 | - |
| Manage Copilot security with enhanced admin controls | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Block and limit sharing for Copilot Studio | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Dec 17, 2024 |
Jan 2025 |
| Secure data access using filtered views | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 2025 | - |
Unified experience for Power Platform and finance and operations apps
Administer and extend Power Platform apps, flows, and websites along with finance and operations apps in the same environment.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deploy and manage unified sandbox environments | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| Deploy and manage unified production environments | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Dec 2024 | Mar 2025 |
| Back up and restore unified environments | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Feb 1, 2024 |
Jan 27, 2025 |
| Convert sandbox to production for unified environments | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Dec 2024 | Mar 2025 |
- You are able to opt into some features as part of early access on August 12, 2024, including all mandatory changes that affect users. To learn more, go to Early access FAQ.
Description of Enabled for column values:
Users, automatically: These features include changes to the user experience and are enabled automatically.
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically: These features are meant to be used by administrators, makers, marketers, or business analysts and are enabled automatically.
Users by admins, makers, or analysts: These features must be enabled or configured by the administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
For a list of the countries or regions where Dynamics 365 business applications are available, go to the International availability guide. For more information about geographic areas and datacenters (regions), go to the Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform availability page.