13 features included in release plans
Power Pages 2025 release wave 1
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Provide administrators with the ability to enforce who can access their Microsoft Dataverse data using Power Pages websites. Using this governance setting, admins can block certain authentication providers and determine which authentication providers are allowed in the Power Pages websites on their tenants.
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Currently, administrators have the control to block anonymous access to Dataverse data through Power Pages websites in their tenants. Building on this, the new governance control will allow admins to block certain authentication providers (and determine which authentication providers are allowed) in all the Power Pages websites in their tenants.
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| Public preview date moved to Aug 2024 | Apr 25, 2024 |
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The new Power Platform admin center experience enhances your security management capabilities. It provides tailored, product-specific security views, ensuring consistency and coherence across all functionalities.
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Power Pages has a security view available in public preview since October 2023. The Security Hub in the Power Platform admin center is a one-stop solution for all admin security needs. We aim to extend the Security Hub to develop tailored, product-specific experiences that cater to the unique security needs of different products within the platform. These experiences will align with the broader goals of the Security Hub, ensuring consistency and coherence across all security-related functionalities.
Ignite 2024: Product-specific experience in the Security Hub
- Provide a Power Pages specific experience by showing the security view under the product-specific section in the Security Hub.
- Integrate or expose Power Pages security views across various sections of the Security Hub.
- The product-specific category will remain to accommodate unique security views/controls such as dynamic scan results and sites with integrations that may not fit into standard categories.
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As a service administrator, you can now gain insights into the health, security, and performance of your Power Pages websites across multiple environments. This feature helps you take the necessary actions to maintain and improve your websites.
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This feature empowers service administrators managing Microsoft Power Pages websites across multiple environments to gain insights into the health, security, and performance of their websites and take the needed action.
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- Enhance your website's security and ensure uninterrupted access by renewing its SSL certificate.
- Improve the performance of the websites by migrating them to the latest Bootstrap version.
- Review and move the websites from the standard data model to the enhanced data model.
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| Public preview date moved to Mar 2025 General availability date updated to Nov 2024 |
Dec 03, 2024 |
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Admins can get a view of the security posture of all their websites in the tenant and take appropriate actions, such as disabling certain integrations where needed or reaching out to makers to improve site security by using the right configurations.
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Along with existing features in the security view, Power Pages admins can now:
- View sites with integrations to other services.
- View security checks run across sites with a count of how many sites passed or failed the security check.
- See the sites where the SSL certificate is about to expire.
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| General availability date moved to Mar 2025 | Feb 03, 2025 |
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In addition to adding a section manually, you can now save time and effort by describing the section you want using natural language, which copilot uses to create the new section for you.
Feature Details
The features will be enabled by default for all makers to be able to:
- Use natural language to describe a section for Copilot to generate.
- Decide whether to keep or discard the generated section before adding it to a page.
- Edit the section using the canvas controls in design studio.
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Integrate payment service providers or a payment gateway with your Power Pages sites using Power Pages design studio to allow payments with this no-code solution.
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Allow payments with a one-time setup by installing required packages in the Set up workspace and configuring keys obtained from the payment provider. After that, allowing payments on a multistep form only requires you to adjust a toggle in Step settings and provide an amount in the field selection. This out-of-box integration is PCI compliant and built with industry-leading payment providers.
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| General availability date updated to Nov 2024 | Oct 16, 2024 |
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You can now enjoy better performance, visual refresh, and styling capabilities with the modern list. These enhancements include custom JavaScript for styling, bringing it to parity with the classic list.
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The modern list component will now support custom JavaScript, metadata filters, and other features available in the classic list. These enhancements improve performance, visual refresh, and styling capabilities.
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We addressed long-standing customer feedback by improving the site experience for visitors through expanded file upload options. Now users can easily drag and drop files or upload them directly from their camera.
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File upload enhancements in this feature include:
- Upload larger files with an increased file size limit for SharePoint storage.
- Drag and drop files.
- Scan files for malware.
- Configure file upload for SharePoint storage with a streamlined experience in design studio.
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By performing a security scan, you can improve your site's security by detecting and fixing weaknesses, protecting it from possible attacks, and providing a safe online space for users.
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Schedule a security scan to keep your site secure from threats. The scan is a static and dynamic security scanning security scan that will find weaknesses and possible threats to your site's stability. Run the scan to evaluate the security level of the site, receive a report with the results of the checks, and review suggestions for what to do next.
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The Entra External ID configuration uses a streamlined setup process that is now more efficient and user-friendly. The wizard setup integrates directly within Power Pages, eliminating the need for navigating multiple interfaces. This cohesive experience not only enhances productivity for creators but also reduces the likelihood of configuration errors. By simplifying the setup process, we empower makers to focus on innovation without the hassle of complex configurations.
Feature Details
Microsoft Entra External ID enhances Power Pages' security capabilities by offering extensive customization options for sign in and registration pages, aligning with your brand's theme. It supports multifactor authentication (MFA) and integration with popular social identity providers like Google and Facebook.
The setup process for Entra External ID on Power Pages is now streamlined. Traditionally, this setup required navigating multiple interfaces, such as the Microsoft Entra admin center, the Portal Management app, and design studio. However, the new wizard setup within Power Pages simplifies this process by providing a unified setup experience directly within the design studio's identity providers section. This inline experience mirrors the manual configuration approach and is designed to be intuitive for makers.
The feature is automatically applied, enhancing maker productivity and efficiency in setting up Entra External ID on Power Pages.
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You can save time and effort creating new webpages by describing the page they want using natural language directly in their workflow and copilot generates the page for them.
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Copilot allows you to use natural language to accomplish your goals in Power Pages. With this feature, we're introducing the ability to leverage Copilot directly in your workflow inside of Power Pages design studio in addition to existing functionality to generate webpages with Copilot through the sidecar in the Pages workspace.
Use contextual copilot to:
- describe their page for Copilot to generate using natural language.
- discard or keep the copilot-generated page before adding it to your site.
- continue editing your page using the canvas controls in design studio.
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Some web pages may have long or complex content that is time-consuming for site users to read. Now you can use the new in-context Copilot for Power Pages to summarize the content in your webpages, making it easier for your site's users to consume.
Feature Details
The new, in-context copilot capabilities in Power Pages allow your site's users to view an AI-generated summary of the content of your webpages. Users can use these summaries to review the main points or gather the most critical information from your webpages in a quick glance rather than reading the entire page. Your site's users can also copy the summary copilot generates to share or cite it. This feature is enabled by default for new sites, but you have the option to opt-out. You can also allow this feature for your existing Power Pages sites from the setup workspace.
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| Public preview date moved to Sep 2024 General availability date updated to Sep 2024 |
Jun 15, 2024 |
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Customers can migrate their existing sites to Bootstrap version 5 with the migration tool, which automatically converts their site's code and provides the ability to report changes and modify the code.
Feature Details
Bootstrap is a commonly used Cascading Style Sheet framework, providing a powerful and extensible front-end toolkit for developers. Bootstrap version 5 offers improved user experience (UX) features and new components, like accordion, offcanvas, and RTL support. To migrate your site, you'll use Microsoft Power Platform CLI and the migration tool.
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