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With the first release wave of this year, Microsoft continues to invest in the further development of Power Pages, with a strong focus on improving governance, usability, and security. Administrators gain more ways to gain insight into the usage of Power Pages. In addition, the power of AI is being leveraged to help developers build portals faster and more securely. With the introduction of multiple security agents and the continued enhancement of AI assisted development tools, portal quality is improved while placing greater emphasis on building secure portals—at the same time reducing the required time investment.

Top Features 

1. Build Power Pages sites even faster using AI 

With the renewed AI coding tools for Power Pages, developers can generate complete websites using natural language. These new tools are specifically designed for Power Pages and truly understand the context. They are aware of the structure of Power Pages and understand how the platform is conceptually built. 

Security, data models, and usability are taken into account by default. As a result of these innovations, new portals can be developed much faster, significantly reducing time‑to‑market without compromising quality. 

2. Server-side logic in Power Pages 

Thanks to the enhanced server-side logic, developers can more easily build and execute logic on the server side. This provides an environment to handle complex processes—such as data validation or API integrations—without exposing this logic client side. 

This leads to a more secure architecture and simplifies the development process, reducing the need to devise alternative solutions to ensure secure implementations. 

3. The renewed Power Pages Client API 

The Power Pages Client API offers developers a Microsoft-designed framework for working with various Power Pages elements. There is no longer a need to build complex logic based on HTML elements; instead, developers can now directly reference Power Pages forms, lists, and more. 

In addition, the Power Pages Web API has become significantly more accessible. With this approach, Microsoft is taking a strong step toward providing developers with better tools for implementing custom validations and manipulating website elements. 

What’s in it for you? 

Administrators 

  • Improved security for executing logic through the enhanced server-side capabilities. 
  • Significantly reduced time‑to‑market without loss of quality. 

Developers 

  • Faster development of new portals using AI coding tools that take context, data models, and security into account. 
  • Easier development of logic that runs on the server side. 
  • HTML elements are no longer needed to build complex logic; instead, direct references to Power Pages–specific forms, lists, and more are available. 
  • The Power Pages Web API has become much more accessible. 

Why act now? 

Whether for consumers or users in a business relationship, organizations are increasingly expected to provide direct access to relevant information such as invoices or active service requests. Power Pages portals have long offered a powerful low-code platform to quickly expose data from the Power Platform and other sources to external stakeholders. 

This is now becoming both more secure and easier. With the new AI capabilities, tangible results can be achieved in a short time, further reducing time‑to‑market. 

Written by

Sebastiaan Baartmans
Power Platform Consultant