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Business Value

Users can view and act on data more efficiently with new grid features in model-driven apps. The features allow you to group and aggregate data, reorder columns, set column width, and complete other tasks with ease.

Feature Details

The Power Apps grid control has numerous functional and stylistic improvements that improve the out-of-the-box experience for users.

Easy column reordering

The Allow column reordering property controls whether users can reorder columns from directly within the grid. This includes the ability to drag-and-drop column headers or use the Move left and Move right actions from column header, dropdown menus.

Updated styling for the list mode

The list mode of the Power Apps grid control has been updated to align with Fluent styling, with changes to font weight and font size to differentiate the importance of each field in the list.

Sorting supported in list mode

When users are using the the Power Apps grid control in list mode, users see a new header row at the top of the list containing a sort icon. Selecting this icon opens a sort menu that allows the user to choose the sort column and the sort direction. This option is suppressed if the grid doesn't allow column sorting.

Command bar for nested grids

The Power Apps grid control, with configured nested grids, now displays the correct command bar when a row in the nested grid is selected.

Column width can be set to a specific value

You can now set the column width to a specific pixel value from the column options. This allows column width to be set by keyboard only.

Option to select all records with infinite scroll

The option to select all records is available, by default, on all modern grids. When using this option with infinite scroll, a maximum of 1000 records is selected.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Oct 1, 2024
Last updated: Nov 20, 2024

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

This feature allows users to resize side panes in Power Apps. Users can resize side panes wider to see more supporting content, so they can be more effective and efficient.

Feature Details

With 2024 release wave 2, users can resize the side panes used for features like Copilot chat, productivity tools, and Teams chat.

This feature allows users to be more productive and provides more space for supporting content when users are working on larger screens.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

Timelines:
Early Access: Aug 12, 2024
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Oct 1, 2024
Last updated: Nov 20, 2024

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

Admins should only use modern, model-driven apps by hiding the legacy, model-driven apps. This ensures that admins have the full product experience.

Feature Details

The legacy, model-driven app was added in the past to help transition from the legacy, web client to the unified interface. The legacy app already is hidden, by default, for users but not for admins.

During the past release wave, we added a Power Platform admin center setting for environments in Settings > Product > Behavior called Show legacy app for admins, which controls the visibility for admins.

With this release wave, we treat the Auto option as Off, unless it is explicitly changed. For more information, go to Dynamics 365 - custom hidden for admins.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

Timelines:
Early Access: Aug 12, 2024
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Oct 1, 2024
Last updated: Nov 20, 2024

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

You can now select the columns of tables that are downloaded on mobile devices for offline use. The fewer columns you select, the faster the app downloads the data on the device for usage without connectivity.

Feature Details

In the settings of your offline-enabled app in the maker portal, you can customize the offline profile for an optimized data loading experience for your users. For each table, you can select the columns that are required in the app:

  • Use the suggested columns computed by the system.
  • Manually select the columns.

In the main page for the offline profile, you can see for each table how many columns are selected for download.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Note:
  • The author created this article with assistance from AI. Learn more

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jan 2025
General Availability : Apr 2025
Last updated: Nov 20, 2024

Included in:
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

This feature allows Power Apps end users to select records quickly and easily when using the look-up control. This modification aims to make users more productive while entering data into the system.

Feature Details

When searching for values in a look-up control in a form, users can now press Enter directly to select the first value in the dropdown menu (instead of having to navigate to that item with the keyboard).

If the user presses Enter when the dropdown menu is open, the first item in the list is selected.

This feature will be available to all users by default.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

Timelines:
Early Access: Aug 12, 2024
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Oct 1, 2024
Last updated: Nov 20, 2024

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

The new sharing experience for canvas apps will be simplified and similar to Microsoft Office suite products. The new sharing experience saves time and provides an intuitive experience that allows makers to easily share their canvas app with other makers and app users.

Feature Details

The improved, sharing experience in Power Apps Studio will be like other Microsoft Office apps sharing experience. When a maker is editing a canvas app in Power Apps Studio, they can select the Share button to open the share dialog and easily share the app with users and other, app co-owners.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Oct 20, 2024
Last updated: Nov 20, 2024

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

User productivity is improved with availability of recent and pinned records in multi-session apps.

Feature Details

The recent and pinned records of the sitemap have been extended to the multi-session app. This will improve productivity of users returning to the same records when the multi-session app is started, as well as when users are moving between single session and multi-session apps.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

Timelines:
Early Access: Aug 12, 2024
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Oct 1, 2024
Last updated: Nov 20, 2024

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

This is the first visual refresh milestone in an effort to drive better product alignment with other Microsoft products, as well as to provide accessibility requirements. This milestone creates a modern look and feel, as well as improved accessibility throughout Power Apps Studio.

Feature Details

Power Apps Studio will be refreshed with the following updates:

  • Updated shades of colors, including the Power Fx formula bar, command bar, and property pane.
  • The main canvas area will contain an updated, dotted background to add more depth to the main, canvas area.
  • The tree view and app authoring menu will have updated, Fluent v9 icons.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Oct 13, 2024
Last updated: Nov 20, 2024

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

Today, there's no way to view the code of a canvas App in Power Apps Studio. With this feature, makers can use code view to see their app's underlying code to better understand the app's functionality. They can also copy the code to share and paste code to create new controls.

Feature Details

With this feature, you can view the source code for the canvas app in a more user-friendly YAML format that is up-to-date.

With code view, you'll be able to:

  • Copy controls from Power Apps Studio as YAML code.
  • Paste YAML code to Power Apps Studio to create controls.
  • View the YAML code within Power Apps Studio.
  • Create templates for screens and reuse code.

The Power Fx formula bar must be turned on from the app settings to view the code for a control.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jun 2, 2024
General Availability : Feb 2025
Last updated: Feb 03, 2025

Included in:
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

Existing model-driven apps will use the monthly release channel, which allows them to be updated every month. Monthly channel releases let apps get the latest, generally available features the product offers as quickly as possible.

Feature Details

With 2024 release wave 1, existing model-driven apps in Power Apps environments had the Auto behavior for the App release channel field changed to Monthly channel. The maker or admin was able to select the Semi-annual channel option if a slower release cadence was needed.

Now with 2024 release wave 2, we're making the next phase of changes to existing Dynamics 365 model-driven apps and any existing environments. The Auto behavior for the app and environment release channel field changed to Monthly channel. The maker or admin is able to select the Semi-annual channel option if a slower release cadence is needed. Learn more at Release channels for your model-driven app.

Users of the Semi-annual channel can see the channel value in the Settings > About window.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

Timelines:
Early Access: Aug 12, 2024
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Oct 1, 2024
Last updated: Nov 20, 2024

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

Device-optimized screens increase the performance and reliability of your canvas apps on iOS and Android devices. Some controls also offer improved gesture support and a user experience that matches closer to the design language of the operating system.

Feature Details

Some customers have decided against using the Power Apps mobile app because of low, user interface (UI) performance. Scrolling, transitions, visual glitches, and occasional UI failures are symptoms of a UI that isn’t built for the native operating system.

This feature automatically converts canvas apps from web-based technology to React Native, while keeping all the same business logic in place. As a result, canvas apps feel more responsive, are of higher quality, use modern UI conventions such as swipe-to-delete, and have better scrolling capabilities.

Note: We will incrementally use the most popular, UI controls with native equivalents on mobile devices. The top ten controls account for more than 50% of all app screens. The result is less complex screens that continue to run in the Webview (a specialized web browser) for some time. However, there are some very compelling scenarios that will run 100% as native UI.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Nov 12, 2023
General Availability : Feb 2025
Last updated: Nov 20, 2024

Included in:
2024 release wave 2
2023 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

Users working with charts have modern dialogs, which are faster and provide more accessible experiences.

Feature Details

With 2024 release wave 2, the chart dialogs for Assign, Share, Save As, and the dashboard Save As were modernized. These dialogs replace the existing, classic web client dialogs and provide users with a faster and more consistent experience.

When a user is using a personal chart on a view page, the chart pane's context menu includes additional commands. The Assign and Share commands allow the user to re-assign ownership of the personal chart or share the personal chart with other users.

Assign user chart dialog

Share user chart dialog

For any chart on the view page, a user can select Save as in the chart pane's context menu to create a new personal chart.

Save as new chart dialog

For any standard dashboard, a user can select Save as in the dashboard command bar to create a new personal dashboard.

Save as new dashboard

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

Timelines:
Early Access: Aug 12, 2024
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Oct 1, 2024
Last updated: Nov 20, 2024

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

The modern, refreshed look for model-driven apps is always on for users of the monthly release channel. The updated look makes model-driven apps easier to use so that users can accomplish their goals quickly and efficiently.

Feature Details

With 2024 release wave 2, users of the monthly release channel will always see the modern, refreshed look for model-driven apps. The new look provides updated styling including fonts, colors, borders, shadows, and more that align to the latest Microsoft Fluent design system.

Users of the monthly release channel will no longer see the Try the new look option, as the feature is always turned on for them.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

Timelines:
Early Access: Aug 12, 2024
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Oct 1, 2024
Last updated: Nov 20, 2024

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

The Power Platform Environment Settings app provides a modern, performant, accessible, secure, and extensible settings management experience. This app is intended to provide a single, unified experience for system administrators to create and manage settings for their applications.

Feature Details

The Power Platform Environment Settings app replaces the legacy, web client experience by providing a single, unified experience for system administrators and system customizers to create and manage settings for their applications. The Power Platform Environment Settings app provides the same security, access control, and extensibility features as the existing, legacy experience.

The Power Platform Environment Settings app is organized into a set of incremental rollouts beginning with the replacement of the settings application itself and follows with updates. Any existing extensions that have been created by customers to extend the settings site map will be preserved and any solution imports that include extensions to settings will be honored and routed to the Power Platform Environment Settings app.

For the release of the Power Platform Environment Settings app, existing links for advanced settings from various locations in Power Platform will be redirected from the legacy Settings web client to the new Power Platform Environment Settings app. The auto-redirect from the legacy Advanced Settings to the new Power Platform Environment Settings app is on by default.

Until this app reaches general availability, tenant or environment administrators may turn off the advanced settings redirection to the Power Platform Environment Settings app by setting the Advanced settings redirection option to Off for an environment in the Power Platform admin center.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Sep 20, 2024
General Availability : Jan 31, 2025
Last updated: Feb 07, 2025

Included in:
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

Previously, multiple makers were blocked from editing an app at the same time. With coauthoring makers can author and edit a canvas app in real time. This experience accelerates the app development process and saves time by allowing multiple makers to collaborate and build apps quickly. Additionally, this capability enhances debugging, code reviews, and training when multiple makers are required.

Feature Details

Multiple makers can edit a canvas app at the same time. Previously, copresence experiences in Power Apps Studio let multiple makers access a canvas app together but only one maker was able to edit the app.

The new coauthoring feature lets multiple makers collaborate and edit a canvas app at the same time, similar to the experience in Microsoft PowerPoint and Word. This capability empowers fusion teams to accelerate their app development lifecycle and supercharge their collaboration in Power Apps Studio. Makers can also see their colleagues' changes and presence in real time.

To use coauthoring, enable Coauthoring in the app settings.

  • Open your canvas app for editing and then go to Settings > Updates > Preview and set the Coauthoring toggle to On.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jun 23, 2024
General Availability : Oct 6, 2024
Last updated: Dec 05, 2024

Included in:
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

Adding an AI record summary will allow users to access important information easily, thereby making them more productive by saving time and effort.

Feature Details

  • Makers will be able to create a record summary prompt for any table in Power Apps (make.powerapps.com) easily via the guided prompt builder experience.
  • Makers will be able to include relevant fields and information that users will need in the record summary.
  • Makers will be able to test the summary online to ensure it meets their expectations.
  • Record summary will be available to users in their forms for easy access to information.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Dec 22, 2024
General Availability : ---
Last updated: Feb 07, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

Agent builder in Power Apps will give makers a fast and convenient way to bring their apps into agentic era by building agents directly within Power Apps Studio using a streamlined Copilot Studio experience.

Feature Details

Accelerate generation of custom AI agents using existing knowledge, logic, and actions already built into Power Apps. These agents will handle tasks autonomously, eliminating repetitive tasks, supercharging individual productivity, and driving overall business efficiency.

Makers can collaborate with Copilot to identify automatable workflows they can uplevel, editing the description of the process. This process description is then turned into an autonomous Copilot agent, fully populated with reliable instructions and actions that were pulled from the app.

For instance, in a Reimbursement Management app, a maker can take existing steps of the process – categorization, compliance checking, or rejecting incomplete requests – and build a custom agent that will handle these tasks. The agent will leverage the custom Dataverse functions the maker built as part of the app to autonomously complete tasks. With agent builder leveraging the knowledge, logic, and actions already present in apps, the journey to agents in business apps gets significantly shorter.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Note:
  • The author created this article with assistance from AI. Learn more

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Dec 8, 2024
General Availability : ---
Last updated: Dec 20, 2024

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

There can be a lot of legwork involved in detailing solutions to a business problem before you start to create apps, flows, and other objects that will solve your users' needs. Copilot is well versed in common solution architecture patterns and can take advantage of other sources such as images to add to the context of the problem. Copilot can help you create user roles, define role-specific requirements, and suggest data schema, apps, and other objects that would come together as a solution to the proposed business problem. You can collaborate with Copilot, iterating over user roles, requirements, schema, and objects to ensure the final solution is a great start for the business.

Feature Details

Creating solutions to address business needs involves more than just developing an app. Solutions are a collection of objects from across the Power Platform that store data, provide end-user apps, and automate workflows. Regardless of the technology used to solve a business problem, the first step to success is defining your solution architecture to support various user roles and their requirements. This ensures you can build a solution that benefits your business. Copilot can now assist with detailing the scenario and requirement definitions, such as user roles, user requirements, data schemas to support data, and creating an overall solution architecture through proposed objects.

  • Scenario and requirement definition: Begin with a description of your business problem and provide additional context like process diagrams, data models, or even screenshots of legacy apps. Copilot will use this input to draft user roles and requirements for the solution.
  • Data modelling: Once aligned on requirements, Power Apps will propose a data model to support the solution and allow the maker to explore and make updates through a visual entity relationship diagram.
  • Solution architecture: Copilot will recommend the types of apps and automation that will fit the requirements. In the initial release of this functionality, the recommendations will include canvas and model-driven apps, as well as cloud flows in Power Automate.

During the early phase of the public preview, these Copilot skills are off by default. To access these features, simply turn on the Try the new Power Apps experience toggle on the Power Apps home page. This will allow you to create and manage your plans.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Note:
  • The author created this article with assistance from AI. Learn more

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Dec 2024
General Availability : Sep 2025
Last updated: Jan 23, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

Makers can make their apps more intelligent and relevant by customizing Copilot capabilities of their app. To start with, they can make the Copilot chat experience richer for their apps by adding external knowledge sources and custom topics to the Copilot available for each model-driven app.

Feature Details

  • Each model-driven app is backed by a Copilot in Microsoft Copilot Studio. This Copilot will now be available for makers to customize.
  • Makers will be able to add external knowledge sources as well as custom topics to their app Copilot and make the Copilot chat richer and more intelligent.
  • Gradually, makers will be able to customize other Copilot capabilties through the same app Copilot.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jan 8, 2025
General Availability : ---
Last updated: Feb 03, 2025

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

The new capabilities and experience of Copilot’s form fill assistance feature make it faster and easier for users to fill forms based on copied text content, images, files, and emails.

Feature Details

Copilot now helps you fill out forms quickly using images, files, and emails. Model-driven app users will be able to add a file (including images) or email for Copilot to generate form field suggestions, saving valuable time on a tedious task. The form filling experience has been improved based on your feedback, giving you more control over suggestions.

Admins can manage this capability through Power Platform admin center.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Feb 2025
General Availability : ---
Last updated: Jan 22, 2025

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

The new, smart paste option in Copilot’s form fill assistance feature makes it faster and easier for users to fill forms based on text content from any source. Users can simply copy the content, smart paste by selecting a button or using the keyboard shortcut, and receive inline suggestions within the form, based on the copied content.

Feature Details

Users can select the smart paste button or use the keyboard shortcut to receive suggestions for fields. The suggestions appear inline in their model-driven app's form, based on text they've copied. The user can choose to accept or ignore the suggestions. This new, smart paste option makes it easier and faster to enter data in forms.

Admins can manage this capability through Power Platform admin center.

Form Fill Smart Paste

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Oct 20, 2024
General Availability : Apr 2025
Last updated: Jan 22, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

With Copilot, you can find, filter, and sort data more efficiently using natural language in views for model-driven apps, significantly reducing the time previously spent on advanced filtering and enhancing productivity.

Feature Details

You can easily find, filter, and sort your data using natural language grid filtering, which eliminates the need for complex, advanced filters by allowing you to describe what you're looking for.

For example, if you ask for cases that are high priority with an overdue follow-up by date, this filters your view to only show those relevant cases. Using natural language saves time as you no longer need to use column filters or advanced filters.

Supported features:

  • Filtering of records
  • Sorting
  • Text search

Please note that this feature is currently in preview. It will be enhanced with each weekly release and can be turned on through the admin setting 'Natural Language Grid and View Search'.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
Note:
  • The author created this article with assistance from AI. Learn more

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Nov 15, 2024
General Availability : Apr 2025
Last updated: Jan 23, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

Administrators are responsible for managing numerous resources within their organizations. It can be challenging for them to make informed decisions about these resources without a thorough understanding of their functions. By creating AI-generated descriptions for apps, we help administrators provide the necessary information to scale up and make informed decisions on a larger scale. This feature is enabled for all apps within Managed Environments.

Feature Details

In app designer for model-driven apps, makers can use AI to help them generate descriptions for their apps. Makers will have the option to generate an app description in the Publish dialog or in the App Settings panel. This will create a description that makers can review and then save as part of the app. The AI-generated app description is also available to app users during the web player experience by hovering over the app name in the header.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Aug 22, 2023
General Availability : Feb 2025
Last updated: Jan 27, 2025

Included in:
2024 release wave 2
2023 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

Adding custom document form-fill assistance in Copilot allows it to use organizational knowledge to help users complete forms faster and with more consistency.

Feature Details

  • Makers will be able to add relevant files in a drag and drop fashion to Copilot's form-fill assistance capability from the Power Apps maker experience to help copilot make better suggestions for Form.
  • Once added, Copilot will use the new knowledge when making field suggestions on the form to end users.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Feb 2025
General Availability : Apr 2025
Last updated: Nov 20, 2024

Included in:
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

Employees are in control of agents, overseeing their activity, which is documented online with their workflows.

Feature Details

Agents help automate business processes completely, saving time for employees and streamlining workflows. However, with agent oversight experiences, employees are in ultimate control. While agents perform actions in the background, everything gets documented. This allows employees to quickly see and review cases where the agent encountered obstacles or was unable to complete the task as intended, enabling them to act and maintain important oversight over the agent’s actions.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Mar 2025
General Availability : ---
Last updated: Nov 20, 2024

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

Copilot proactively suggests relevant columns for makers when they're building new forms and views for model-driven apps. This feature allows makers to get started quickly, helps increase their creativity, and lets them be more productive when building key components of their model-driven apps.

Feature Details

When you’re building new forms and views for model-driven apps, Copilot can help. It proactively suggests relevant columns, tailored to your needs. These suggestions are based on the Dataverse table schema, as well as the name and, if provided, the description of the view or form.

This feature not only helps you get started quickly but also sparks creativity and boosts productivity when building key components of your model-driven app. This feature is automatically turned on, so you can start benefiting from it right away. If the tenant admin has turned on Power Apps Maker Copilot, there’s no need for any additional setup or configuration. Copilot is ready to assist you in creating your model-driven apps.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Aug 11, 2024
General Availability : Oct 21, 2024
Last updated: Nov 20, 2024

Included in:
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

Draft with Copilot currently helps premium end users of canvas apps to refine their text in multiline text input boxes. With this upcoming addition to the feature, users can now write prompts to generate content for their input. This will save users time they spent editing, rewriting, and coming up with well-written content. Instead, they can jot down a few ideas and let Copilot do the rest.

Feature Details

Draft with Copilot is an innovative feature designed to enhance the productivity of premium users of canvas apps. Currently, it assists users in refining their text within multiline text input and rich text editor controls, ensuring their content is polished and professional.

With the upcoming enhancement, Draft with Copilot will take this functionality to the next level. Users will now have the ability to write prompts that generate content for their input fields. This means that instead of spending valuable time editing, rewriting, and crafting well-written content, users can simply jot down a few ideas and let Copilot handle the rest.

This new feature is set to revolutionize the way users interact with their canvas apps, making content creation faster, easier, and more efficient. By leveraging advanced AI capabilities, Copilot will help users produce high-quality content with minimal effort, allowing them to focus on what truly matters – their core tasks and creative processes.

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Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Dec 22, 2024
General Availability : ---
Last updated: Jan 08, 2025

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2024 release wave 2

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Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

Form fill assistance now provides field value suggestions in quick create forms. The field value suggestions include citations. These capabilities help users enter data faster and easier.

Feature Details

Form fill assistance, a Copilot feature for model-driven apps, is now in quick create forms, and includes citations to help users understand more about the form field suggestions.

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Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Nov 4, 2024
Last updated: Nov 20, 2024

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

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Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

AI-generated visualizations by Copilot help end users understand patterns, trends, and relationships in their data. End users can turn tabular data into a chart easily and in context. The visualization can be further personalized to turn data into insights without needing any other analytical tool.

Feature Details

Copilot can help you get insights from your data easily with AI-generated visualizations.

  • Simply select a button to let Copilot turn tabular data, along with all the filters, into a chart.
  • Drill into the data by interacting with the chart or the grid column filters, or both.
  • Personalize the chart in place by changing the chart type, or adjusting the legends, or any combination of the two.
  • Expand the chart, or copy to the clipboard for easy sharing with your team.

This feature will be released in preview and improved with each weekly release.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jan 23, 2025
General Availability : Oct 2025
Last updated: Feb 04, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 2
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

By supporting existing tables when visualizing a complex data model, the entity relationship diagram (ERD) data experience will unblock makers to build actual meaningful business solutions on top of their existing data assets. With Copilot assistance, makers can easily find existing tables relevant to their data modeling requirements and build more robust business applications. With the ERD visualization of tables and relationships, makers can review new and existing tables side-by-side and define meaningful connections between them with a simple drag and drop interaction.

Feature Details

Are you tired of creating new tables, only to discover that they duplicate existing ones in your environment? Say hello to a smarter way of designing data models using the Copilot-assisted ERD designer. Now, instead of starting from scratch, you can leverage your existing tables to build more robust data models. Here’s how it works: Simply type out your requirements in natural language, and Copilot will craft a multi-table data model that incorporates both new and existing tables. Need to find relevant tables quickly? Copilot’s recommendations have you covered and will locate the right tables in seconds. Once you’ve assembled your tables, switch to the ERD view. There, you can review your new and existing tables side-by-side. While editing existing tables in the ERD view isn't fully supported yet, you can create lookups into the existing tables in a simple drag-and-drop interaction to define meaningful connections between tables.

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This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
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Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jan 5, 2025
General Availability : Mar 2025
Last updated: Jan 21, 2025

Included in:
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 2

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Business Value

Microsoft is increasing the strength of its authentication across the board, including Dynamics 365 finance and operations apps. Therefore, we are removing the option to authenticate with certificates.

Feature Details

The server for Dynamics 365 finance and operations apps, known as the Application Object Server (AOS), will strengthen security by removing the ability to authenticate with certificates. This means we will no longer provide the ability in the Regression suite automation tool (RSAT) to provide a certificate. The user must use a username and password, using an Entra policy, to avoid multi-factor authentication.

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Timelines:
Early Access: Mar 2025
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General Availability : May 2025
Last updated: Feb 07, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

Customers can ensure that their apps are more efficient and can execute actions that affect more than 500/2000 records correctly.

Feature Details

This feature will allow Power Fx to delegate the UpdateIf and RemoveIf functions to be executed on Dataverse. They won't be subject to delegable limits. It will allow the delegation of greater than 2,000 records.

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Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jun 18, 2023
General Availability : Nov 24, 2024
Last updated: Jan 08, 2025

Included in:
2024 release wave 2
2023 release wave 1

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Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

Improved testing options for Power Apps. This capability supports the handling of larger-scale Power Apps without regressions, resulting in more robust applications with fewer bugs.

Feature Details

Expanded support for Test Engine tests using YAML and Power FX. Test Engine will have enhanced canvas app testing capabilities, introduce model-driven app testing, and more robust authentication options.

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Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Mar 2025
General Availability : May 2025
Last updated: Feb 03, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

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Business Value

This feature will allow Power Apps built over SQL using Entra to move smoothly from Dev to Test to Prod. Customers will not need to drop the SQL Entra data sources in their app when they move it to a new environment.

Feature Details

SQL will be available in the dropdown menu for creating an environment variable. You can specify the environment variable for SQL in the same way you do for SharePoint. For SharePoint, you specify a site, while for SQL, you specify a server. Similarly, for SharePoint, you specify a list, and for SQL, you specify a table.

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Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Jan 26, 2025
Last updated: Feb 03, 2025

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

Today, makers struggle to understand the operational health of their Power Apps once apps are in production. Monitor provides makers with visibility to app performance data and also gives recommendations for ways to improve App performance.

Feature Details

To monitor your apps, your admin needs to turn on Monitor in the Power Platform admin settings.

Makers can access Monitor from the command bar on the Apps page or through the Discover menu on the left navigation in Power Apps. For easier access, you can pin this page to the left navigation menu.

On the Monitor page, you can view performance metrics for your canvas apps. If your environment is a Managed Environment, you will also have access to recommendations for app improvement. If it is not, contact your admin to enable it as a Managed Environment.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Dec 15, 2024
General Availability : ---
Last updated: Jan 08, 2025

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

With this feature, you can view the underlying code to understand app functionality and manage source control. It’s perfect for developers who need to align with healthy and robust Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) practices. By using this feature, you streamline your development process, improve code quality, and support your app’s growth.

Feature Details

You can now export a canvas app as a binary file with the extension .msapp. You can use Power Platform CLI to convert a .msapp file into source code files. With this feature, you no longer need to use the Power Platform CLI to convert the .msapp files. You can view the source code for the canvas app in an updated, human readable YAML format. Each screen has a separate file.

View the source code of your canvas app directly in Power Apps Studio or use external code editors.

This new capability helps you to:

  • Store the files in a code repository.
  • Automate generation of a canvas app.
  • Improve the generative canvas app models.
  • Refactor canvas apps without using the designer.
  • Integrate natively with Git for Power Platform.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: May 2025
General Availability : Jun 2025
Last updated: Jan 23, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

Power Platform gives admins the ability to monitor and improve the operational health of their Power Apps. Now, built into the Power Platform admin center are metrics tied to user experiences and business efficiencies, such as the time end users waited to interact with an app or page, and which flows spend more time than necessary to run.

In addition to metrics, admins can work with makers to take action on recommendations to improve the metrics. Your operational health in Power Platform matters the moment your business takes a dependency on the platform. The monitoring experience makes it easier than ever to measure and improve your use of Power Apps. With time, this experience will grow to provide metrics, insights, and recommendations for more parts of Power Platform, including Dynamics 365 apps, flows, and agents.

Feature Details

The Power Platform admin center monitoring experience empowers admins to monitor, diagnose, and improve operational health of all resources in Power Platform. It helps admins:

  • Review operational metrics per app, flow, and Dataverse database.
  • Review recommendations which can improve a resource's metrics.
  • Review logs used to calculate operational metrics.
  • Configure alert rules to simplify discovering apps, flows, and Dataverse databases that have degraded operational health.
  • Pin preferred resources to simplify viewing operational metrics for business-critical resources.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Nov 17, 2024
General Availability : ---
Last updated: Dec 20, 2024

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

Synchronizing Power Platform solutions with source control is now a seamless, native experience within Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, and Copilot Studio.

Fusion teams comprised of makers, developers, and admins seamlessly collaborate to develop, deploy, and scale business-critical solutions. This native integration with Azure DevOps repositories democratizes best practices from traditional, software development. Team members can work in their own environment and editor of choice. There's no need to share environments or understand source control.

Feature Details

Azure DevOps Git repositories allow projects to scale with rich version control, parallel development through branches, tools for code and security scans, granular auditing, disaster recovery, and test automation.

Unlike previous application lifecycle management (ALM) tools, pipelines in Power Platform and the Git integration are native. They're democratized for all makers and drive efficient collaboration and healthy ALM across the projects that matter most within your organization.

This feature includes the following capabilities:

  • You can connect and synchronize your Power Platform solutions with source control in seconds.
  • Makers can collaborate on the same project while working in isolated, development environments. There is no need for them to understand source control.
  • Developers can work directly within source control.
  • Azure repositories track the details of who changed what and when.
  • Simple, in-product gestures allow you to commit your changes, pull other's changes into your environment, and resolve conflicts in real-time.
  • Solutions are saved in a new YAML format for improved readability, better mergeability, and reduced clutter.
  • This is a different capability than the canvas app, experimental GitHub integration. Native source code integration is for everything developed in Power Platform solutions.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Nov 3, 2024
General Availability : ---
Last updated: Dec 05, 2024

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

There is a big productivity increase to be harvested for X++ developers. Dev Div have published numbers of more than 40% of published C# code was written by Copilot, and we would like to provide similar help to X++ developers. One of the other benefits is that It helps shortening the ramp up time for new developers, which has always been a problem for the business. We're aiming for the same kind of flow as canvas apps and Dataverse have today where natural language can be used to describe certain workflows.

Feature Details

The value will be harvested in the GitHub Copilot Chat control within Visual Studio 2022. There, the user will be able to provide natural language test describing workflows and have the system do the work. As an example, you could write: "Create a table class MyTable with a name and an Age field and create an index over the Name field. Then, create a form that consumes the data in this table," upon which the system would create the artifacts suggested.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Mar 2025
Last updated: Nov 20, 2024

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

Environment routing offers makers a personal, safe space to build with Microsoft Dataverse without the fear of others accessing their apps or data.

Feature Details

Environment routing is a premium governance feature. This feature allows Power Platform admins to automatically direct new or existing makers into their own, personal, developer environments of Microsoft Copilot Studio and Power Automate Desktop.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Sep 30, 2024
General Availability : Nov 17, 2024
Last updated: Feb 03, 2025

Included in:
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts