Important
The 2025 release wave 1 plan covers new functionalities that Microsoft plans to deliver to the market from April 2025 to September 2025. In this article, you see 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 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. They integrate smoothly with other Microsoft solutions. The Power Platform admin center enhances license and capacity oversight. It offers 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. IT can easily certify widely used assets in a scalable, uncomplicated manner. Together, these new enhancements streamline the adoption of the highly anticipated Microsoft Copilot features. They allow 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 add new governance capabilities that help you 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 help enterprises deploy and operate mission critical assets on the platform more effectively.
- Upgrades to the admin connector to automate admin tasks.
Updates to Governance and administration 2025 release wave 1
Investment areas
Application lifecycle management
IT administrators can use Power Platform's cohesive features to deploy solutions, manage versions, and orchestrate environments. These features 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.
Copilot governance
IT administrators can govern all Copilot capabilities across Power Platform and Dynamics 365. Governance includes policies that dictate Copilot access and behavior to address security concerns and regulatory compliance needs. Data-driven insights help evaluate Copilot's impact, return on investment (ROI), and compliance status within the organization.
Enterprise scale administration IT administrators can use a suite of tools to manage large volumes of Power Platform and Dynamics 365 assets with greater efficiency and precision. This approach streamlines environment management, supports systematic bulk governance, and provides built-in best practice recommendations to keep the operational framework optimized, secure, and compliant. With a unified interface supported by advanced automation tools like API, PowerShell, Microsoft Power Platform CLI, or connectors, administrators can fully automate tasks. This automation makes it easy to handle and maintain extensive assets across the infrastructure.
Help and support
IT administrators can find self-help solutions, track relevant known issues, and view service health status without opening support requests. These enhancements offer a smooth and integrated way to manage support engagement and better understand the impact of new features or bug fixes. With the right tools and information, IT administrators can quickly and efficiently address service issues. This approach ensures system reliability and unlocks the full potential of Power Platform and Dynamics 365.
Security and compliance This feature area gives you enterprise-grade protection for all Power Platform assets. Use the admin tools to manage the security of Power Platform and Dynamics 365 at scale. Protect data with secure guardrails. Safeguard the entire deployment with integrated solutions. Interoperability with Microsoft solutions strengthens your security posture. Continuous governance helps you meet up-to-date regulations. Proactive measures and policies help makers follow secure development practices. Security by default, scaled visibility, and comprehensive auditing capabilities make the platform's security stronger. You get end-to-end visibility and compliance.
Unified experience for Power Platform and finance and operations apps As part of unifying the admin experiences for finance and operations apps within Power Platform, the environment for finance and operations apps is now an application within Power Platform. You can install and host multiple Dynamics 365 applications, such as Sales, Marketing, Finance and Operations apps, flows, and websites in Power Platform in the same Power Platform environment with a Dataverse database. This unification gives admins a consistent and single set of lifecycle operations they can perform across all artifacts.
The unified admin experience brings together user, administrative, and developer experiences for Power Platform and finance and operations apps. Users get complete, end-to-end business application experiences. Admins and developers get streamlined ways to maintain and customize these apps.
To learn more about the capabilities delivered in this release wave, check out the release plan for Microsoft Power Platform governance and administration:
For application administrators
User-impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
Application administrators review user-impacting features. This review process helps with release change management and supports successful onboarding of new capabilities. For the complete list, see all features tagged "Users, automatically" in the release plan.
Features that application administrators enable
Users get features that administrators, makers, or business analysts enable or configure. For the complete list, see all features tagged "Users by admins, makers, or analysts" in the release plan.