March 2024

Modern, refreshed look and feel for model-driven apps on by default

We are super excited to announce the refreshed look of solution dependencies for component. The solution dependencies page for component is better organized, easy to understand and loaded with essential actions that helps to identify the dependencies and take appropriate actions.

Welcome to the March 2024 update! Here are a few, select highlights of the many updates we have for Power BI. There are new updates for Visual calculations, edit your data model in the Power BI Service, and deliver report subscriptions to OneDrive SharePoint.

There is more to explore, please continue to read on.

Need to roll back to a previous solution version in your production environment? Now you can with pipelines! Pipelines have guard rails in place to ensure that solutions are rolled back in a safe way that follows ALM best practices.

We are excited to announce that the virtual network support for Dataverse plug-ins and connectors within Power Platform is now available in public preview for all our customers in public cloud! This feature allows you to protect your outbound connections from Power Platform services like Dataverse Plug-ins and connectors to resources within your private network.

Key Benefits:
Access Control: With the IP firewall, Power Platform administrators can configure IP restrictions on each environment. This means you can allow access to Dataverse only from specific IP ranges, ensuring that your data remains secure.
Risk Mitigation: By restricting access to authorized IP addresses, you significantly reduce the risk of insiders exfiltrating data. This feature acts as a safeguard against unauthorized access attempts.
Token Replay Attack Prevention: The IP firewall prevents token replay attacks by rejecting requests from restricted IP ranges. This ensures that only valid and authorized requests are processed.

In November, we introduced Microsoft Copilot Studio, a conversational AI platform that allows you to customize Copilot for Microsoft 365 and build your own copilot. Learn how you can use Copilot Studio to build your own copilot, available on multiple channels, designed for your audiences, and tailored specifically to your business processes and workflows.

Announcing General Availability of built-in Dataverse offline for canvas apps. Learn how to enable a Dataverse centric app for offline, how to support files and images in offline and how to optimize the user experience in offline mode