Microsoft Power Platform Blog

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November 19, 2024
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Announcing exciting updates to managed environments licensing 

In response to customer feedback and a commitment to empowering organizations with more advanced governance and security capabilities, we’re making an update to our managed environments licensing model. At Microsoft Ignite we are announcing managed environments capabilities are included with existing Power Apps Premium or Power Automate Premium (Power Platform user licenses). Here’s what this

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Introducing managed operations for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform   

Operational Excellence for Mission-Critical Applications  With over 48 million monthly users, Microsoft Power Platform is transforming how organizations deliver modern AI-powered customer experiences, improved employee satisfaction, and business results. Customers increasingly rely on the Power Platform to run global-scale, mission critical workloads, where the risk and business impact of failure are high. These workloads demand

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Introducing managed security for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform: advanced protection for an AI-driven world  

In the modern digital era, the opportunity for innovation by leveraging organizational data in AI-driven scenarios is at an unprecedented high. Yet, both the effort required to maintain enterprise-grade security and the sophistication of cyber threats have grown. In 2023, there were over two thousand cyberattacks across the United States, which affected 340,000,000 victims. As

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Exciting New Updates for Pipelines in Power Platform 

This month, we've got a lot of game-changing features lined up for Pipelines, and in this blog, I'll be going over the latest and greatest updates that Makers and Admins can both get excited about.

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Hyperscale Your Enterprise Business Applications with Microsoft Dataverse 

Over the past three years, the annual growth rate of enterprise data within Fortune 500 companies has been remarkable, driven by an exponential increase in data generation and the strategic imperative to leverage data analytics. The volume of data continues to grow as enterprises build and deploy new applications within their organizations.

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Enable reusability and maintain best practices with the catalog in Microsoft Power Platform 

When building solutions in Microsoft Power Apps and Microsoft Power Automate, your organization may have company-specific needs and complex scenarios, such as custom mappings to various data sources, multi-faceted flows and triggers, and embedding various components with custom logic into apps. There is also repetitive work, such as implementing delicate design patterns, branding, and reusing links.

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5 ways IT departments can get started with low-code and AI  

Putting AI-powered low-code development tools in the hands of pro developers is like handing over the keys to a solution machine. With vast, built-in app-building knowledge and conversational language prompts that guide beginners and turbo-boost pros, AI can speed the time to build solutions for the unique needs of your IT department.

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Protect enterprise solutions with new Microsoft Power Platform security features  

This month we are announcing several new security features for the Power Platform. Admins will now have one place to manage Power Platform security at scale using the new Security Hub. Multiple advanced data exfiltration protection features are being added, including the next generation of network isolation and continuous access checking.