Power Platform 2025 Wave 1 - What caught my attention
The latest Power Platform release notes are out and I had a chance to read through them. There is a lot of things in there but here are the changes that caught my eye and you might want to dig more into. If you have time you can of course read them all here
Power Platform
Plan Designer
The idea is to go from business requirements and ideas to the start of a solution.That solution can include applications,and other Power Platform assets like Pages, Flows, Copilots and custom agents. This went into public preview in December and is slated for release in September 2025. It's worth playing with to get an idea of what's coming, don't expect to replace your solution architects just yet. You can see an example of it in action here
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Power Apps
Source Code Access for Canvas Apps
This is a step toward better version control and collaboration. With source code access, makers can now manage Canvas Apps in Git-based repositories, making it easier to track changes, enforce governance, and integrate with automated pipelines. It also sets up the ability to refactor the code outside of the designer and in theory it would also setup the ability to generate apps. Look for this to become public preview in May 2025 and release in June 2025.
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Power Automate
Copilot-Assisted Expressions
Writing expressions will probably be easier with Copilot-assisted expressions, using the tool it can suggest and refine expressions, making it faster to get your expressions created without having to lookup the Workflow syntax in the reference docs. Try it now in public preview and general availability is targeted to May 2025
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Voice Commands for Power Automate Desktop
This allows using your voice to create workflows. In addition to just making it easier to describe what you want it also targets those with accessibility needs. This is targeted to desktop flows but I don't see why they couldn't do the same in cloud flows. Look to try it out in Feb 2025.
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AI Builder
Document Processing Agent
An agent to automate and streamline document workflows. Who doesn't want more help sifting through junk mail and invoices and other important business documents. The agent is targeted at automating the collection, extraction, categorization, and validation of data from diverse document types. Look for DocAgent to become available in public preview in May 2025.
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Manage Multiple Prompt Iterations
Instead of treating AI-generated results as a one-and-done process, AI Builder now supports multiple prompt iterations, allowing for refinements to improve accuracy before finalizing the output. Public preview in May 2025.
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Ground your AI prompts with Connectors
AI Builder prompts will be able to use connector data as grounding data. Preview in March 2025.
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Governance and Security
Delegate Admin Responsibility with Group Admin Roles
This is one of the more popular things I hear in larger deployments is let us delegate some of the admin responsibility to groups. Public preview in April 2025.
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Expanded Virtual Network Support
Power Platform has expanded its Virtual Network support to include environment variables, service endpoints, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and additional connectors. Public preview in March 2025
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Guest Access Controls
Nobody likes unwelcome guests! This allows you to control at the environment level to permit/deny controls for guest access, giving admins more control over who can access what. This went into preview in November 2024.
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Final Thoughts
Hopefully you found at least one of these interesting. If you took the time to read the full release notes send me a note on what you found most interesting.
For a full list of what’s coming in Power Platform 2025 Wave 1, check out the official Microsoft Release Notes.