Plan and prepare for Microsoft Power Platform governance and administration in 2025 release wave 2

Overview

With intuitive tools that streamline administration, the Power Platform admin center evolved into the unified governance hub for managing intelligent agents, agent-driven apps, and automated agent workflows across the Microsoft ecosystem. It provides the most secure, governable, and reliable platform for agent development.

In this release, we enrich the admin center experience by embedding four foundational pillars of the managed platform.

• Managed security offers advanced protection for an AI-driven world.
• Managed governance gives comprehensive visibility, granular control, and reduced administrative overhead. IT uses it to guide agentic innovation at scale.
• Managed operations strengthen operational excellence through dedicated monitoring, alerting, lifecycle management tools, and integrated automation.
• Managed availability gives enterprise-grade reliability and performance continuity for mission-critical workloads.

Together, these integrated capabilities enable organizations to confidently deploy zoned governance strategies. High-visibility, enterprise-wide solutions benefit from rigorous management with advanced security, comprehensive application lifecycle management, and other robust safeguards. At the same time, flexible and streamlined green zone governance securely empowers citizen developers.

This release wave further strengthens the Power Platform’s leadership in security, governance, and operational excellence. IT teams can confidently support both enterprise-grade and citizen-led agentic development at scale.

For official product documentation and training for Power Platform governance and administration, see:

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/

Updates to Governance and administration 2025 release wave 2

Investment areas

Enterprise scale administration
To manage large volumes of Power Platform and Dynamics 365 assets, IT administrators use a suite of tools that boost efficiency and precision. This approach streamlines environment management, supports systematic bulk governance, and provides built-in recommendations based on best practices to keep the operational framework optimized, secure, and compliant. With a unified interface enhanced by advanced automation tools like API, PowerShell, Microsoft Power Platform CLI, or connectors, administrators can fully automate tasks. This automation makes it easy to handle and maintain extensive assets across the infrastructure.

Security and compliance
This feature area includes enterprise-grade protection for all Power Platform assets. Use the admin tools to manage the security of Power Platform and Dynamics 365 at scale. Protect data with secure guardrails. Safeguard the entire deployment with integrated solutions. Interoperability with Microsoft solutions heightens your security posture. Continuous governance helps you meet up-to-date regulations. Proactive measures and policies guide makers in secure development. Security by default, scaled visibility, and comprehensive auditing capabilities enhance the platform's security measures. These features ensure end-to-end visibility and compliance.

To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Microsoft Power Platform governance and administration below:

For application administrators

User-impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
User-impacting features should be reviewed by application administrators. This facilitates release change management and enables successful onboarding of new capabilities released to market. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users, automatically" in the release plan.

Features that must be enabled by application administrators
This release wave contains features that must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users by admins, makers, or analysts" in the release plan.