Plan and prepare for Power Pages in 2024 release wave 2
Important
The 2024 release wave 2 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from October 2024 to March 2025. In this article, you'll find the product overview and what's new and planned for Power Pages.
Overview
Microsoft Power Pages is a secure, enterprise-grade, low-code software as a service (SaaS) platform for creating, hosting, and administering modern, external-facing business websites. Whether you're a low-code maker or a professional developer, Power Pages empowers you to rapidly design, configure, and publish websites that seamlessly work across web browsers and devices.
2024 release wave 2 investments are divided into four major themes:
- Generative AI: Using Copilot in Power Pages, you can expedite site-building for a low-code maker or pro developer to build intelligent sites with copilots and agents that reimagine the way you interact with your employees, customers, and partners.
- Data Connectivity: Power Pages sites connect seamlessly to data anywhere and enable rich experiences with these sources.
- Collaboration with low-code and pro-dev tools: Whether you're a low-code maker or pro developer, you can create pixel-perfect experiences in Power Pages and collaborate for time to add value.
- Security and governance: Secure, monitor, and govern your websites with ease using the Admin Center and in-context design studio experiences.
Updates to Power Pages 2024 release wave 2
Investment areas
Administration and governance
As an administrator, you're able to efficiently manage, configure, and maintain websites directly from the Power Platform admin center and the Set up workspace with the design studio.
The administration features allow you to:
- View website details, capacity consumption reports, and other site information from the Power Platform admin center.
- Use self-service diagnostic tools, such as the site checker, to identify and resolve common issues in websites.
- Configure integration with other services like SharePoint and Power BI.
- Restrict site access by IP address, enable maintenance mode on sites, and other site administration options.
Other capabilities that you get are governance features like:
- Enhanced website inventory information for performing audits on the websites of the tenant.
- Security and analytics views for tracking tenant security and user activity.
- Data loss prevention settings, such as restricting anonymous user access to Dataverse table data from Power Pages sites.
Design studio
Power Pages design studio provides a simplified experience to create and customize a website. As a maker, you can use the Pages, Styling, Data, and Set up workspaces to customize many aspects of your website within a single interface.
Power Pages Home provides a single view of all your websites in an environment and allows you to create additional sites using the available templates.
Learn hub helps makers learn how to build sites end-to-end through documentation, guided tutorials, and videos.
Power Pages Copilot
Makers can use Copilot in Power Pages to create parts of a website through natural language instructions. These can be used to quickly create a new site or make changes to an existing site.
For example, using Copilot in Power Pages, you'll be able to:
- Create a website.
- Enable website Copilot actions for users.
- Get answers to questions while building websites.
Professional developer experiences
Professional developer experiences enable developers to build advanced customizations and configurations with their websites. These experiences include several key areas, such as:
- Tooling support for development like Visual Studio Code for Web editor, Visual Studio Code extensions, and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) support using Azure DevOps and GitHub actions.
- End-to-end application lifecycle management (ALM) capabilities.
- Extensibility patterns allow developers to extend the websites for complex business requirements.
To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Power Pages 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 enables 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 enabled 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.
Get the most out of Power Pages
| Helpful links | Description |
|---|---|
| Release plan | View all capabilities included in the release. |
| Licensing | Improve your understanding of how to license Power Pages. |
| Product documentation | Find documentation for Power Pages. |
| User community | Engage with Power Pages experts and peers in the community. |
| Upcoming events | Find and register for in-person and online events. |
| Product trials | Get started with Power Pages. |