Plan and prepare for governance and administration in 2023 release wave 1
Important
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Important
The 2023 release wave 1 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from April 2023 to September 2023. 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 components across the enterprise. The Power Platform admin center is the unified user experience we provide for Power Platform administrators. A unified API surface and rich tooling like PowerShell cmdlets are also available to provide fully automatable management capabilities beyond the out-of-box portal experience.
Key investments for this wave include:
- Extending administrator's ability to set data policies on desktop flows.
- Enabling administrators to manage and remove the Dataverse System Administrator role more easily.
- Enhancing sharing limits in Managed Environments to include cloud flows in solutions.
- Enhance Managed Environments with pipelines allowing in-product application lifecycle management (ALM) automation to help admin, makers, and professional developers.
Updates to governance and administration 2023 release wave 1
Investment areas
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.
In 2023 release wave 1, we’ll be introducing a new classification in the data policy wizard allowing administrators to classify desktop flow action groups in a tab named Exempt to ensure the connectors or actions are ignored from policy enforcement.
One Dynamics, One Platform
The One Dynamics, One Platform initiative brings the user, administrative, and developer experiences for both Dynamics 365 customer relationship apps and Dynamics 365 finance and operations apps together. 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 in the Power Platform admin center.
Power Platform analytics
Power Platform analytics provides insights into signals, including usage, inventory, licenses, and more, to enable administrators to govern their Power Platform assets at scale quickly. These include capabilities like out-of-the-box reports, exporting data to other data sources, telemetry, and auditing of user activities.
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 administration 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.
In 2023 release wave 1, we're introducing capabilities to limit sharing of solution-aware flows, and the general availability of pipelines will simplify application lifecycle management (ALM) for admins, makers, and professional developers.
Licensing and reporting
Admins can manage their entitlements (capacity, user licenses, and more) and understand how they're being used across their organization.
Power Platform user experiences
Power Platform user 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.
In 2023 release wave 1, we'll make it easier for administrators to remove or manage the automatically assigned Dataverse System Administrator role in an environment.
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:
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.