Currently, Power Platform guest users can access Power Apps. However, if the app is connected to SQL Server, they cannot access the data because their credentials are not passed through to SQL Server. This new feature allows Power Platform guest user credentials to be passed through to SQL Server, enabling SQL to manage access based on those credentials. This feature is part of a set of enhancements aimed at the professional and advanced citizen developer community, making it easier and safer to use Power Apps with SQL Server.

In Power Apps, floating point values are the default data type for internal values. This means that any data flowing into Power Apps is internally represented as a float. However, floating point values can sometimes lead to precision issues, especially when dealing with fractional decimal values.

The new Decimal support in Power Apps addresses this issue by providing greater internal decimal accuracy. This ensures that decimal values are preserved more accurately when getting and putting data into SQL Server. With Decimal support, you can manage business transactions and other scenarios requiring high precision with greater confidence.

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.

In app designer for model-driven apps, you can use AI to help you generate descriptions for your apps. You 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 you 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.

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.

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.