Plan and prepare for Microsoft Dataverse in 2025 release wave 2

Overview

Microsoft Dataverse is a trusted low-code data platform that simplifies building scalable, interconnected agents, Copilot applications, and automations. In the 2025 release wave 2, we focus on enhancing the following generally available capabilities:

• Dataverse for agents: Use Dataverse as the foundational data platform to build, manage, and scale teams of autonomous agents with human-in-the-loop capabilities. This capability enhancement especially applies to Microsoft Copilot Studio and the broader Power Platform ecosystem.
• Dataverse search: Use out-of-the-box smarter, faster, AI-ready access to business data by indexing both structured and unstructured content for use in Copilot, agents, and model-driven apps.

The following features are in development for 2025 release wave 2:

• Dataverse model context protocol (MCP) server: Seamlessly integrate Dataverse data tools with large language models (LLMs) using the MCP server. With the server, apps and agents dynamically retrieve, reason over, and act on enterprise data.
• AI for business and operational data: Use prompt columns and AI-powered functions to create intelligent business logic for agents and applications.

Updates to Microsoft Dataverse 2025 release wave 2

Investment areas

Build your low code hyperscale backend on Dataverse
This semester, you see faster low-code experiences for apps built on Dataverse. You can create reusable low-code business logic in Dataverse that you catalog so other makers in your organization can discover and use your apps. To increase the value of maker investments in your organization, use these reusable actions by copying and pasting Power Fx logic from a canvas app into Dataverse actions. You can also call connector actions directly to run external business logic. You see these actions available across Power Platform.

Finance and operations cross application integration
Unified management experience in Power Platform admin center

As an administrator, you get a unified experience for managing users, roles, licenses, and storage for finance and operations apps environments in the Power Platform admin center. You don't need to go to finance and operations apps separately. This enhancement delivers a cohesive management experience within the Power Platform admin center.

Key benefits:

• User and role management: Manage finance and operations apps users and roles directly within the Power Platform admin center.
• License compliance: Manage licenses efficiently to meet licensing requirements.
• Storage insights: Get detailed insights into storage consumption and take actions to manage storage.

This update delivers a unified and streamlined management experience for customers.

Improve Copilot Studio ecosystem for enterprise scale
Microsoft Dataverse is the backend engine that powers Copilot Studio. It gives every agent and agentic offering a reliable and scalable ecosystem for onboarding, customizing, and managing agents. The Dataverse ecosystem brings these capabilities to Copilot Studio through catalog, security, solutions, and virtualization features. When customers start their agent journey with Copilot Studio, they benefit from this ecosystem.

With catalog features, you can discover and install all publicly hosted and locally hosted agents into Copilot Studio. You can easily move catalogs between environments in the same tenant. You can also manage prebuilt vertical solutions or agent add-ons within a catalog.

With security features, you secure and control all agents you install in Copilot Studio. Administrators decide who can see what data and what privileges each user gets.

When you use solutions, you manage all assets for Copilot Studio within solutions. You can easily handle continuous updates, upgrades, installs, uninstalls, and transport.

When you use virtualization, you connect to external data sources. You enable this external data as knowledge for your agents and agentic offerings.

Improved enterprise experiences in Power Platform
When you improve the experiences for building apps, flows, and solutions by using templates and standard components, and by enhancing how you connect, map, and use data, enterprise organizations find more engaging experiences across Power Platform and Microsoft Dataverse.

Microsoft 365 collaboration
Microsoft Dataverse powers many collaboration capabilities, including integrations with different Microsoft 365 products like Microsoft Exchange, Outlook, and Teams. Dataverse enables users to collaborate with colleagues across your company without the need to switch between applications, whether you're sending or receiving emails, creating or joining Teams meetings, or linking Teams chats to records.

To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Microsoft Dataverse below:

For application administrators

User-impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
User-impacting features should be reviewed by application administrators. This facilitates release change management and enables successful onboarding of new capabilities released to market. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users, automatically" in the release plan.

Features that must be enabled by application administrators
This release wave contains features that must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users by admins, makers, or analysts" in the release plan.