Plan and prepare for governance and administration in 2023 release wave 2
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Important
The 2023 release wave 2 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from October 2023 to March 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.
The Power Platform admin center is the central user experience we provide for Power Platform administrators. A unified API surface and rich tooling, such as PowerShell cmdlets, are also available to help administrators automate the management of environments and low code assets. Beyond the standard capabilities that help manage personal productivity, the 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.
Key investments for this wave include:
- License management improvements, including:
- New reports that help administrators distribute licenses to relevant users, stay compliant, and reduce costs.
- License request workflows and auto-claim capabilities that simplify license assignment and help administrators manage at scale.
- Role-based access control improvements to allow better delegation of tenant admin privileges using Azure AD Privileged Identity Management and support for least-privileged strategies.
- Improvements to developer environments governance to help administrators establish a robust environment strategy that promotes faster digital transformation and adoption of low code solutions.
Updates to governance and administration 2023 release wave 2
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
Licensing and reporting
Admins can manage their entitlements (capacity, user licenses, and more) and understand how they're being used across their organization.
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 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 license and capacity management
Power Platform license and capacity management includes experiences related to providing more visibility on Dynamics 365 and Power Platform license and capacity usage. These capabilities make it easier to manage licenses and capacity.
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:
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.