Plan and prepare for Power Pages in 2022 release wave 2
Important
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Important
The 2022 release wave 2 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from October 2022 to March 2023. 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 business websites. Whether you are a low-code maker or a professional developer, Power Pages enables you to rapidly design, configure, and publish your websites that seamlessly work across web browsers and devices.
The 2022 release wave 2 plan focuses on enhancements to the core platform and new capabilities in the areas of templates, design studio, administration, and professional development experiences.
Updates to Power Pages 2022 release wave 2
Investment areas
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 Setup 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.
Administration and governance
Administration and governance capabilities enable administrators to efficiently manage, configure, and maintain websites. These features allow administrators 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 portal checker, to identify and resolve common issues in websites.
- Configure integration with other services (for example, SharePoint and Power BI), restrict access by IP address, enable maintenance mode, and other administration options.
Template hub and prebuilt templates
The template hub provides a set of predefined industry-specific and cross-industry website patterns available to makers when creating new sites. The new sites created from these templates have a set of working features and functionalities to address business scenarios. Makers can modify the sites created from templates to reflect their brand and customize the functionality to address their own requirements.
In 2022 release wave 2, makers will be able to select the Dynamics 365 templates from within the template hub. There will also be more templates added to address more industry scenarios.
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 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 allowing 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. |
| Product updates | Stay up to date on latest product updates. |
| Release calendar | Know important release milestones. |
| 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. |