From the Microsoft Power Platform blogs: Power Pages enhanced authorization; Power Automate via GitHub Copilot; Dataverse semantic model; AI-powered software development

In this week's Power Platform blogs: 

• A deep dive into Power Pages enhanced authorization
• Power Automate via GitHub Copilot
• Teaching Copilot your business language: a hands-on look at the Dataverse semantic model
• AI-powered software development: Can low-code keep up?

A deep dive into Power Pages enhanced authorization

Writing on the Power Platform Developer Blog, Gokul Narayanan stated that Microsoft is making a major change to Power Pages security by moving more of the security checks directly into Dataverse. Customers can choose to use the new system as they move away from the current model.

Narayanan wrote that under the new approach, Power Pages permissions are stored and enforced directly in Dataverse. This means Power Pages no longer has to figure out a user's permissions each time that user tries to access data. Dataverse can determine who the user is, what permissions they have, and which records they are allowed to access.

He noted that the goal is to make access to business data more secure and consistent. Developers can continue setting up permissions in much the same way as before, but Dataverse itself now handles more of the work of deciding what external users can see and access.

Narayanan then explained that by moving security for external users directly into Dataverse, the system can more clearly determine who users are, what permissions they have, and what data they can access. This makes the security model easier to understand and better fits with Microsoft's long-term plans for Power Platform security.

Power Automate via GitHub Copilot

Writing on his blog, Matt Collins-Jones said he wanted to find out whether GitHub Copilot could be used to build Power Automate flows using natural-language instructions instead of creating each step manually.