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Pipelines for All are now Generally Available (GA)

Anthony Sheehi, Product Manager II, Tuesday, April 30, 2024

If you haven’t already heard, Power Platform is advancing in the mission to democratize healthy ALM by removing a significant barrier to entry: manual setup. We are excited to announce that the feature set included in Pipelines for All is now Generally Available, and we’ve made some upgrades, such as adding a stage and reusing pipelines across dev environments, to make personal pipelines even more useful across a variety of use cases.

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April 2024 ALM blog: What’s new and what it means for you

Casey Burke, Principal Product Manager, Thursday, April 11, 2024

This post captures a large number of new and recent updates in context of the broader vision and user journey for ALM in Power Platform. Learn about these capabilities, how they work together, and how to align your organization’s ALM strategy for the next generation of growth.

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Working with solution dependencies for objects made easier

Swati Madhukar, Tuesday, March 26, 2024

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.

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Redeploy past solution versions using pipelines

Anthony Sheehi, Product Manager II, Monday, March 25, 2024

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.

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Pipelines for All Public Preview: Easily set up pipelines in Power Platform

Anthony Sheehi, Product Manager II, Monday, March 18, 2024

Have you ever wanted to use pipelines to deploy your solutions across environments, but found it too complicated or time-consuming to set up? Do you wish you could follow ALM best practices more easily and efficiently but don’t have an active admin who is able to dedicate the time to set it all up? If so, you’re in luck! We are excited to announce Pipelines for All: a streamlined pipelines setup process that could have you deploying from scratch in less than a minute.

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Preferred solution is now Generally Available

Mankirat Kaur Bajwa, Thursday, March 7, 2024

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/data-platform/preferred-solution

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Announcing preview for blocking unmanaged customizations

Swati Madhukar, Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Block unmanaged customizations is an environment setting that allows Power Platform system administrators to prevent unmanaged customizations in Microsoft Dataverse environments. By blocking any unmanaged customizations, you can ensure that any changes to your environment, specifically your production environments, are only going through approved application lifecycle management (ALM) processes that have sufficient safety, visibility and auditing.

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Environment Variables are now Always Visible and Editable during Solution Import and Pipeline Deployments

Anthony Sheehi, Product Manager II, Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Makers, who are using pipelines and solution import, will now always be able view and change the values of a solution’s environment variables. Makers will be able to validate the values that are going to be used in their components (such as their apps) in the target environment.

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