2026 Power Platform Release Wave Updates: Usage and Default Environment Apps
UG Expert Kylie Kiser reviews the Power Platform Release Wave updates, highlighting updates in governance and administration involving usage and default environment apps.
Key Takeaways
- COE capabilities: The Center of Excellence Starter Kit is no longer being supported. Its capabilities are transitioning to the Power Platform Admin Center. Inventory, usage monitoring, and actions will become available directly in the Admin Center, which eliminates the need for a separate environment.
- Default environment: A public preview feature enables administrators to move existing production apps out of the default environment into a selected environment. Environment routing in managed environments can prevent new apps from being created in the default environment, while the new capability addresses apps that already exist there.
- Usage page: The updated usage page provides metrics across Power Apps, Power Automate, and Copilot Studio. Metrics include adoption by product and app, most-used apps, app and flow creators, total distinct users, per-app views, and daily active flow runs. The information can help identify makers and support secure progression into the organizationās application lifecycle.
