Welcome to the Microsoft Build 2024 announcements! This annual flagship event for developers unveiled around 60 exciting updates, including the latest AI features for Power Platform, expanded capabilities of Copilot Studio, and a range of new tools for developers. Additionally, the event highlighted innovative, cost-efficient, and user-friendly cloud solutions designed to drive innovation.

Power Platform

The new security hub feature in the Microsoft Power Platform admin center offers administrators a comprehensive toolset to enhance security posture. Key features, now in preview, include:

  • Azure Virtual Network Support: Integrate Power Platform with virtual networks securely.

  • Entra ID Privileged Identity Management: Grant temporary administrative permissions to improve security.

Power Automate

Microsoft Power Automate is launching several innovative features that leverage process automation and generative AI to transform workflows.

  • AI Flows: Autonomously build flows based on user descriptions in natural language (Early Access Program).

  • Generative AI Features for Desktop Flows: Use AI to record tasks and create flows via natural language (Preview).

Ready for a digital transformation in your business?

Power Platform is the perfect fit for medium and large businesses, offering a wide range of functionality. With Power Platform, you can effectively automate processes in your company, increasing productivity and efficiency. This solution also helps to improve the interaction between your employees, as well as between the team and customers, guaranteeing better service and customer satisfaction.

Microsoft Fabric and Power BI

Microsoft Fabric, the unified data platform for analytics in the era of AI, is a powerful solution designed to elevate apps, whether a user is a developer, part of an organization or an independent software vendor (ISV). In the Power BI experience, Copilot can help you create stunning reports and summarize your insights into narrative summaries in seconds

  • Report Creation: Provide a high-level prompt, and Copilot in Fabric will create an entire report page, adding relevant tables, fields, measures, charts, and visuals. Generate custom summaries and answers to data questions quickly (Generally Available).

  • Data Overview: Use the Copilot-powered “Data overview” button to get a summary of your semantic model, generate synonyms, and prepare your model for natural language interpretation (Preview).

  • Narrative Summaries: Add Narrative video to summarize insights on report pages into written form for effective communication (Preview).

Power Apps

Microsoft Power Apps is enhancing its capabilities to help developers build and deploy modern enterprise apps more efficiently. New improvements in preview include:

  • Copilot on Mobile: Use voice activation and generative AI for frontline workers.

  • Canvas Apps Coauthoring: Edit canvas apps collaboratively in real-time.

  • Code in Power Apps Studio: Work with source code in YAML format, reuse code, and create templates.

Power Pages

Microsoft Power Pages continues to empower users to create dynamic, customizable sites with new security and AI features:

  • Security Workspace: Available in preview, this workspace integrates into the Power Pages design studio, providing security features to safeguard sites, limit user access, and perform comprehensive security scans to identify vulnerabilities.

Copilot at work

Microsoft Build 2024 brought an array of new capabilities to Microsoft Copilot Studio, empowering developers to create advanced copilots that function as agents. These agents can manage and automate various business processes, integrate line-of-business data into copilot experiences, and publish new Copilot extensions.

  • Copilot Agents: Automate tasks and processes, reason over actions, and learn from user feedback (Early Access Program).
  • Copilot Connectors: Integrate Microsoft Graph, Power Platform, AI skills, and Dataverse to enhance copilots (Preview).
  • Publish Copilot Extensions: Customize and extend Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Teams (Private Preview).
  • Copilot Extensions in Partner Center: Available for users to install from Copilot and Microsoft 365 app stores (Preview).
  • Conversational Analytics: Gain insights into user engagement to improve custom copilots (Preview).

Microsoft Build 2024 has introduced a host of groundbreaking updates aimed at empowering users with enhanced tools and capabilities. From the advanced functionalities of Microsoft Power Platform apps to the innovative features in Copilot Studio, this event showcased how Microsoft’s ecosystem continues to evolve. These announcements reaffirm Microsoft’s role in driving innovation and supporting customers in building the future of technology.

Published On: May 22nd, 2024 / Categories: News, What's new /

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