Here are the changes between the February 2025 version and the March 2025 version of the Power Platform Licensing Guide
Managed Environments
A nww section titled Managed Environments was added on page 30. It says:
Managed Environments is included with the following Power Platform standalone(1) licenses and pay-as you-go meters
- Power Apps and Power Automate standalone licenses
- Copilot Studio standalone license
- Power Apps per app pay-as-you-go meter(2) and Copilot Studio pay-as-you-go meter
- Copilot Studio for Microsoft 365 Copilot license (only for features related to Copilot Studio)
- Dynamics 365 Premium, Enterprise, and Team Members standalone licenses
Once enabled, all active usage in the environment will require one of these standalone licenses or pay-asyou-go meters. Please review Power Platform Managed Environments for details.
1 Standalone licenses refers to full Power Apps, Power Automate and Copilot Studio licenses and does not include the limited Power Apps and Power Automate use rights the come with select Dynamics 365 licenses.
2 The Power Apps per app pay-as-you-go meter satisfies the prerequisite that all active Power Apps usage in the environment requires standalone licenses or meters. However, this meter covers Power Apps usage only; any Power Automate flow usage must be covered by standalone Power Automate licenses.
This section was added to centralise any comments and clarifications regarding Managed Environments for any of the Power Platform products anywhere else in the document. For example, Summary of Power Pages on page 8 previously said:
Now it has been simplified to
Similar updates were done for Power Apps, Power Automate, and Copilot Studio as well in their respective Summary tables.
Licensing Requirements for External Users
This section received a definition update for External Users in October 2024, though it was implemented more as a clarification within the section by adding it with an asterisk explanation at the bottom of it. The clarification has now been moved to the top without any wording changes:
Under Applicable licensing includes, “Limited capabilities included with Dynamics 365, Office 365, or Windows licenses” has now been updated to “Limited capabilities included with Dynamics 365, Microsoft/Office 365, or Windows licenses (Seesummary of Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio and Power Pages tables in this guidefor details.)”. A minor change only.
Terminology
The Terminology section has received the following updates:
| February 2025 | March 2025 |
|---|---|
| App (definition of Power Apps per app): An “app” is a combination of Power Platform assets that solves a specific business scenario. – Each “per app” license provides use rights to run 1 custom app (canvas or model driven), or access 1 custom website. – No limits on other components (e.g., forms, dashboards, etc.). | App (definition of Power Apps per app): An “app” is a combination of Power Platform assets that solves a specific business scenario. |
| Application Types: – Canvas Apps: Design and build a business application from a canvas in Microsoft Power Apps without writing code in a traditional programming language. Design the application by dragging and dropping elements onto a canvas, the designer has complete control over app layout. – Model-driven Apps: Design is a component-focused approach to app development based on data model and business processes. Unlike canvas app development where the designer has complete control over application layout, with model-driven apps much of the layout is determined for you and largely designated by the components you add to the application. | *removed* |
| Copilot: Copilot is an AI assistant powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) that offers innovative solutions across the Microsoft Cloud. Copilots aim to enhance productivity, creativity, and data accessibility while providing enterprise-grade data security and privacy features. They bridge the gap between complex tasks and user-friendly solutions, providing a natural language conversational interface to interact with data, create automations, build applications, and even assist with coding tasks. Their integration within Microsoft platforms/products provides a more efficient digital workspace | Copilot: Copilot is an intelligent assistant that uses generative AI and LLMs to assist humans with complex cognitive tasks. This term can be used in reference to Microsoft Copilot (an umbrella term for AI assistants that sit within Microsoft product experiences) or custom-built copilots external to the Microsoft brand. |
| Generative AI: Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence focused on the ability of computers to use models to create content like images, text, code, and synthetic data. Generative AI applications are built on top of large language models (LLMs) and foundation models. – LLMs are deep learning models that consume and train on massive datasets to excel in language processing tasks. They create new combinations of text that mimic natural language based on its training data. – Foundation models are large ML models pre-trained with the intention that they are to be fine-tuned for more specific language understanding and generation tasks. These models are utilized to discern patterns within the input data. After these models have completed their learning processes, together they generate statistically probable outputs when prompted and they can be employed to accomplish various tasks, including: – Image generation based on existing ones or utilizing the style of one image to modify or create a new one. – Speech tasks such as transcription, translation, question/answer generation, andinterpretation of the intent or meaning of text. | Generative AI: Generative AI broadly describes AI models that can produce human-like content in the form of text, images, code and other types of media or data in response to a user-entered prompt. Generative AI applications are built on top of large language models (LLMs) and foundation models. – Large language models (LLM) is a type of AI model that is trained on massive datasets. LLMs are a subset of generative AI. LLMs can be used for understanding natural language and generating content like text (ex: GPT-4o). – Foundation models are large ML models pre-trained with the intention that they are to be fine-tuned for more specific language understanding and generation tasks. These models are utilized to discern patterns within the input data. After these models have completed their learning processes, together they generate statistically probable outputs when prompted and they can be employed to accomplish various tasks, including: – Image generation based on existing ones or utilizing the style of one image to modify or create a new one. – Speech tasks such as transcription, translation, question/answer generation, andinterpretation of the intent or meaning of text. |
| GPTs: Generative Pretrained Transformers (GPTs) are custom versions of GPT models that can be tailored to specific areas, tasks or personas using specific instructions, knowledge and any combination of skills. | |
| Connectors: In Power Platform, connectors mean the 1200+ prebuild data connectors to LOB to use within Power Platform solutions. These can be used within plugins when being used with Copilot for M365.Microsoft Graph Connectors are IT administrator-enabled connectors that allow you to search and surface data from third-party sources in intelligent Microsoft experiences like Microsoft Copilot for M365. | |
| RAG Retrieval-Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a process that enables AI models to retrieve relevant information from a knowledge source and incorporate it into generated text. |
Dataverse for Copilot Studio
Still no change here – the discrepancy in the December 2024 and February 2024 versions, where Dataverse for Copilot Studio was NOT listed as included for Copilot Studio in Microsoft 365 Copilot on page 7, but was listed as included on page 21, still exists. I’ve sent an email to the Product Group about it.
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