Plan and prepare for Microsoft Power Platform governance and administration in 2021 release wave 2
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The 2021 release wave 2 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from October 2021 to March 2022. In this article, you'll find the product overview and what's new and planned for Microsoft Power Platform governance and administration.
Overview
Microsoft Power Platform offers a range of governance and administration capabilities that span Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Microsoft Dataverse. These capabilities are designed to help administrators and IT professionals set up, secure, manage, govern, and monitor the use and adoption of Microsoft Power Platform and its components across the enterprise. In addition to the Power Platform admin center, which is the unified user experience we aim to provide for Microsoft 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.
Updates to Microsoft Power Platform governance and administration 2021 release wave 2
Investment areas
An enhanced, unified Power Platform admin center
The unification of the Power Platform admin center continues towards delivering a single admin experience, not only for Microsoft Power Platform, but also for Dynamics 365. The admin center is offering a unified experience for managing environments, deployments, users, capacity, and usage. Powerful analytics empowers admins to gain visibility into creation and usage, and to investigate and diagnose issues with their deployments. The integrated help and support experience is enhanced with live chat and virtual agent experiences, which optimizes the self-service experience and reduces the time spent contacting Microsoft Support.
Automation and tooling for administrators
Rich tooling experiences like PowerShell cmdlets are available for administrators and IT professionals to provide additional management capabilities for use outside the out-of-the-box portal experiences. A unified API surface for administrating all services across Microsoft Power Platform will help optimize a fully automatable management experience.
To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Microsoft Power Platform 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.