Power Platform March 2026 Update: Admin & Copilot

Introduction

The March 2026 Power Platform feature update brings meaningful changes for both platform governance and app innovation. For IT administrators, the biggest value is improved tenant-wide visibility into usage, licensing, and automation inventory. For makers and end users, Microsoft is expanding Copilot-driven experiences and refining development tools across Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Pages.

What’s new

Stronger admin and governance capabilities

• Licensing capacity reporting is now fully available in the Power Platform admin center under Licensing > Power Automate > Usage.
  • Admins can identify users exceeding capacity.
  • They can also see which flows are driving overages.
• Power Platform inventory is now generally available.
  • Provides a unified cross-environment view of cloud flows, Copilot Studio agent flows, and Workflows agent workflows.
  • Helps identify active automations, compliance risks, and orphaned resources.
• The new usage page is in public preview.
  • Adds modern dashboards for adoption trends and resource-level analytics across Power Apps, Power Automate, and Copilot Studio.

More Copilot inside business apps

• Microsoft 365 Copilot in model-driven apps continues to expand.
  • Users can summarize data, review record history, generate visualizations, and take actions such as drafting content or scheduling meetings.
  • Support for @mentioning agents like Researcher, Analyst, or custom organizational agents adds more contextual task execution.

Better app-building experiences

• Modern controls in canvas apps received a broad quality refresh across nine controls.
  • Improvements include consistency, performance, and a unified property model.
  • Better IntelliSense and fewer formula errors should improve maker productivity.
  • Guided migration messaging is being added for existing apps.
• The vibe.powerapps.com preview demonstrates AI-assisted creation of full-code Power Apps from a prompt, reducing manual development effort.

Power Automate process analysis improvements

• Object-Centric Process Mining (OCPM) introduces analysis based on interacting business objects instead of a single case structure.
  • This is especially useful for complex scenarios like order-to-cash and procure-to-pay.
• The new process intelligence experience adds customizable, card-based dashboards and multiple analytical views for process mining.

Power Pages

• Agent API for Power Pages enables creators to embed custom intelligent chat and related experiences into sites.

Impact for IT admins and end users

Administrators gain stronger visibility into licensing consumption, automation sprawl, and tenant-wide usage patterns, which should help with cost control and governance. End users and makers benefit from more natural Copilot interactions in apps, improved canvas app reliability, and smarter process analysis tools.

Action items

• Review the new licensing capacity reporting and usage dashboards in the Power Platform admin center.
• Use Power Platform inventory to identify unmanaged or orphaned automations.
• Assess whether Microsoft 365 Copilot in model-driven apps fits your business processes.
• Test modern control updates and migration guidance before broad rollout.
• Explore process mining enhancements for multi-object workflows.