Plan and prepare for Microsoft Power Platform governance and administration in 2025 release wave 1
Important
The 2025 release wave 1 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from April 2025 to September 2025. In this article, you'll find the product overview and what's new and planned for Microsoft Power Platform governance and administration.
Overview
Power Platform and Dynamics 365 provide intuitive, yet powerful governance tools for enterprise-level management of low code and enterprise-critical assets. These tools include robust security, comprehensive compliance, and straightforward administrative features for top-level protection and proactive governance while integrating smoothly with other Microsoft solutions. The Power Platform admin center enhances license and capacity oversight, offering insights and helpful suggestions to improve resource use and cost-effectiveness. It also brings a new dimension to customer support with intuitive, self-service resources, real-time service health updates, and streamlined ticket handling. Application lifecycle management (ALM) becomes more transparent across the organization, enabling IT to easily certify widely used assets in a scalable, uncomplicated manner. Collectively, the new enhancements streamline the adoption of the highly anticipated Microsoft Copilot features, allowing IT departments to safely expand low code usage within the enterprise and establish Power Platform as the premier choice for modernizing and developing enterprise solutions.
In this wave, we're adding new governance capabilities that allow customers to manage Power Platform more easily at scale. Key investments for this wave include:
- Enhanced admin center experience, such as organizing functions and tasks for a more streamlined experience with a greater focus on Copilot adoption and security.
- Enhanced tenant-wide inventory view and simplified environment strategy to govern Power Platform tenants more efficiently and at scale.
- Upgrades to resource monitoring and pipelines to assist enterprises in deploying and operating mission critical assets on the platform more effectively.
- Upgrades to the admin connector to automate admin tasks.
Investment areas
Application lifecycle management
IT administrators can leverage Power Platform's cohesive features for deploying solutions, managing versions, and orchestrating environments which are crucial for successful deployment and application lifecycle management. The platform promotes team collaboration, offers a simplified experience for solution discovery and development, and facilitates a feedback loop for continuous improvement.
Enterprise scale administration
IT administrators can use a suite of tools to manage high volumes of Power Platform and Dynamics 365 assets with heightened efficiency and precision. The approach streamlines environment management, supports systematic bulk governance, and delivers built-in, best practice recommendations to ensure an optimized, secure, and compliant operational framework. With a unified interface bolstered by advanced automation tools, such as API, PowerShell, Microsoft Power Platform CLI, or connectors, administrators are equipped to fully automate tasks, enabling efficient manipulation and maintenance of extensive assets across the infrastructure.
Security and compliance
This feature area includes enterprise-grade protection for all Power Platform assets with admin tools for managing the security of Power Platform and Dynamics 365 at scale. It allows data protection with secure guardrails and the safeguarding of the entire deployment with integrated solutions. Interoperability with Microsoft solutions heightens security posture, while continuous governance tailors to up-to-date regulations. Proactive measures and policies guide makers in secure development. Security by default, scaled visibility, and comprehensive auditing capabilities enhance the platform's security measures, ensuring end-to-end visibility and compliance.
To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Microsoft Power Platform governance and administration below:
For application administrators
User-impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
User-impacting features should be reviewed by application administrators. This facilitates release change management and allows successful onboarding of new capabilities released to market. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users, automatically" in the release plan.
Features that must be enabled by application administrators
This release wave contains features that must be turned on or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users by admins, makers, or analysts" in the release plan.