Plan and prepare for governance and administration in 2024 release wave 1

Important

The 2024 release wave 1 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from April 2024 to September 2024. In this article, you'll find the product overview and what's new and planned for governance and administration.

Overview

Microsoft Power Platform offers a range of governance and administration capabilities that span Power Platform and Dynamics 365 applications. These capabilities are designed to help administrators and IT professionals set up, secure, manage, govern, and monitor the use and adoption of Power Platform and its low code assets across the enterprise.

Power Platform offers several administration experiences, including:

• Power Platform admin center is the central place to manage the platform. Beyond the standard capabilities that help manage personal productivity, Power Platform admin center offers a set of advanced governance capabilities that offer more visibility and more controls over makers and assets that are hosted in Managed Environments.

• Rich tools such as PowerShell cmdlets and the new admin connector, built on top of the unified API surface, help administrators automate the management of the low code assets.

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:

• A new environment groups element that can be easily managed using rules.
• A new advisor and a set of admin recommendations that help admins with posture management.
• New security features including controls for network layer security, the ability to integrate with managed identities, and enhanced integrations with Microsoft Purview and Sentinel.

Updates to governance and administration 2024 release wave 1

Investment areas

Data Management - Managing risk and compliance
This set of features provides advanced risk and compliance management options for administrators and IT professionals managing Power Platform. This set of features includes options for:

• Network isolation
• Microsoft Information Protection enforcement powered by Microsoft Purview
• Data loss prevention

Managed Environments for Power Platform
Enabling Managed Environments on some or all environments in the Power Platform admin center offers Power Platform administrators a growing set of new, premium capabilities. Managed Environments is a new, simple way for administrators to easily get more visibility and more control to govern their low code assets.

Managed Environments offer a set of premium management capabilities that are available only on enabled environments. These premium management capabilities require admins to assign licenses to all active users in that environment. This is an on-going investment as Microsoft will continue to add more powerful and simple-to-use capabilities to govern Managed Environments.

Power Platform analytics
Power Platform analytics provides insights to signals including usage, inventory, licenses, and more to enable administrators to easily govern their Power Platform assets at scale. These include capabilities such as default reports, the ability to export data to other data sources, telemetry, and the ability to audit user activities.

Power Platform data policies and governance controls
Power Platform data policies and governance controls include experiences, services, and runtime components necessary to enforce organizational standards and to evaluate compliance at-scale across Power Platform.

Power Platform user management experiences
Power Platform user management experiences include a set of user interfaces and commands that allow administrators to manage different access privileges for users to Power Platform environments and resources. These include managing security roles, business units, access control, and more.

Unified experience for Power Platform and finance and operations apps
The unified admin experience brings the user, administrative, and developer experiences together for both Microsoft Power Platform and finance and operations apps. This enables complete, end-to-end business application experiences for users who use these apps, and for admins and developers who maintain and customize these apps.

To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for governance and administration below:

Check out the release plan

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.