Power Platform for Admins V2 (Preview): A Comprehensive Overview of Key Features and Actions

The Power Platform for Admins V2 (Preview) connector is designed to enhance the administrative capabilities within Microsoft’s Power Platform ecosystem. This connector offers an updated suite of tools that allows administrators to monitor, manage, and control various aspects of the Power Platform, which includes Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents. Built with additional functionality over its predecessor, this V2 version brings advanced features to address the needs of platform governance, compliance, and operational oversight, specifically catering to the requirements of administrators seeking greater control and efficiency.

Key Features and Functionality

1. Environment and Tenant Management The Power Platform for Admins V2 enables administrators to manage environments and tenants more effectively. This includes capabilities to create, modify, or delete environments and manage settings within each environment, ensuring that resources are organized and controlled according to organizational policies. It also provides the ability to monitor resource usage and optimize allocations, making sure environments are used efficiently.
2. User and Role Management With V2, administrators can manage user access and roles across different environments, allowing for precise control over who can access and modify resources within the Power Platform. It supports role-based access control, which means administrators can assign users specific permissions based on their job functions, ensuring security and compliance with organizational standards. This level of granularity is beneficial in large organizations where multiple teams interact with the Power Platform.
3. Monitoring and Analytics One of the enhanced features in V2 is advanced monitoring capabilities. Administrators can access detailed analytics on platform usage, performance, and health metrics, giving insights into how resources are utilized and helping identify areas that may require optimization. The connector offers monitoring of flows, apps, and other components, making it easier to track potential issues before they affect productivity. This real-time data is crucial for proactive management and minimizing downtime.
4. Automation and Policy Enforcement Administrators can automate routine management tasks, such as cleaning up unused resources or enforcing organizational policies. The connector supports automation workflows that can be customized to execute specific administrative actions, reducing the manual overhead and ensuring consistent governance across the platform. With automated policy enforcement, administrators can set predefined rules that automatically manage resources, helping to maintain compliance and reduce risks associated with unauthorized access or misuse.
5. Enhanced Security and Compliance Security is a critical focus of the Power Platform for Admins V2. The connector allows administrators to configure security settings across environments, including data loss prevention (DLP) policies and environment-level restrictions. Compliance requirements can also be addressed by configuring these settings to meet industry standards, which is particularly important for organizations handling sensitive data. This feature also supports audit logging and monitoring, enabling admins to track actions taken within the Power Platform for accountability.

Action overview

• Add the environment to the environment group: Ability to Add the environment to the environment group.
• Allocate and deallocate the currencies for the environment: Ability to Allocate and deallocate the currencies for the environment.
• Create a Power Pages website: Trigger the creation of a new website
• Create a request to generate cross-tenant connection report for a tenant or return an existing report: Ability to Create a request to generate cross-tenant connection report for a tenant or return an existing report.
• Create an ISV contract: Create an ISV contract.
• Create Environment Management Settings: Ability to Create Environment Management Settings
• Create the environment group: Ability to Create the environment group.
• Creates the billing policy at tenant level: Ability to Creates the billing policy at tenant level.
• Delete a Power Pages website: Trigger the deletion of a website by specifying the website ID
• Delete an ISV contract: Delete an ISV contract.
• Delete billing policy: Ability to Delete billing policy.
• Delete the environment group: Ability to Delete the environment group.
• Enable Web Application Firewall on a Power Pages website: Enable Web Application Firewall on the given website
• Execute recommendation action: Execute a recommended action on a set of recommendation resource(s).
• Get a cross-tenant connection report by report ID for a tenant: Ability to Get a cross-tenant connection report by report ID for a tenant.
• Get an ISV contract by its identifier (ID): Get an ISV contract by its identifier (ID).
• Get currency allocations for the environment: Ability to Get currency allocations for the environment.
• Get list of Application Packages that are available for a tenant: Get list of available application packages for a tenant
• Get Operation Status: Ability to Get Operation Status.
• Get recommendation resources: Gets the list of resources for a recommendation for the tenant.
• Get recommendations: Gets the list of recommendations for the tenant.
• Get the billing policy at tenant level by policy ID: Ability to Get the billing policy at tenant level by policy ID.
• Get the environment group: Ability to Get the environment group.
• Get the environment linked to the billing policy: Ability to Get the environment linked to the billing policy.
• Get the linked billing policy details for an environment: Ability to Get the linked billing policy details for an environment.
• Get the list of billing policies for the tenant: Ability to Get the list of billing policies for the tenant.
• Get the list of environments linked to the billing policy: Ability to Get the list of environments linked to the billing policy.
• Get the list of ISV contracts for the tenant: Get the list of ISV contracts for the tenant.
• Get the polling status for a previously triggered installation: Get the polling status to check on the progress of a previously triggered installation based on the operation ID
• Get the Power Pages website details by specifying its unique identifier (ID): Get website details from Website id
• Get the Web Application Firewall status: Get the status of Web Application Firewall associated with the given website
• Gets Environment Management Setting by Id.: Ability to Gets Environment Management Setting by Id. Only columns provided in the $select queryOption will be returned. A list of selectable properties is defined in the Microsoft.Dynamics.Artemis.Infrastructure.Models.EnvironmentManagementSetting type.
• Grants requesting tenant admin user the system admin role within Dataverse in the environment: Ability to Grants requesting tenant admin user the system admin role within Dataverse in the environment.
• Link billing policy ID with environments: Ability to Link billing policy ID with environments.
• List Application Packages that are available for install in a target environment: Get list of Application Packages that are relevant in the context of a target environment. Client can filter the Application Packages based on Install State (NotInstalled, Installed, All) and any other response parameters utilizing standard OData capabilities
• List cross-tenant connection reports for a tenant: Ability to List cross-tenant connection reports for a tenant.
• List Power Pages websites: Get a list of all the websites in your environment
• List the environment groups: Ability to List the environment groups.
• Refresh the billing policy provisioning status: Ability to Refresh the billing policy provisioning status.
• Remove the environment from the environment group: Ability to Remove the environment from the environment group.
• Restart a Power Pages website: Restart the website for the given site id
• Stamp data model version for website: Stamp data model version for website
• Start a Power Pages website: Start the website for the given site id
• Stop a Power Pages website: Stop the website for the given site id
• Trigger application package install into a target environment: Trigger installation of an application package based on the package unique name to be installed in a target environment. Client can also include custom payload when requesting installation of an application package.
• Unlink billing policy ID from environments: Ability to Unlink billing policy ID from environments.
• Update an ISV contract: Update an ISV contract.
• Update the environment group: Ability to Update the environment group.
• Updates fields on a EnvironmentManagementSetting. This API currently doesn't return any entity data in the response body: Ability to Updates fields on a EnvironmentManagementSetting. This API currently doesn't return any entity data in the response body.
• Updates the billing policy at tenant level: Ability to Updates the billing policy at tenant level.

Benefits of Power Platform for Admins V2

The Power Platform for Admins V2 connector’s preview offers several significant advantages for administrators. It improves the administrative experience by providing a centralized approach to governance and management across all Power Platform components. The increased control over environments and resources reduces potential risks, while advanced monitoring tools allow for data-driven decision-making. By incorporating automation and enforcing consistent policies, it helps maintain a secure, efficient, and compliant environment that can scale alongside organizational growth. This connector is a step forward in providing robust governance tools within the Power Platform ecosystem.

As it is currently in preview, Microsoft continues to refine and expand the capabilities of this connector, with potential additional features expected in future releases based on user feedback and evolving admin needs.