Make sure you have the System Administrator security role or equivalent permissions to update the settings. To check your security role, see View your user profile. If you don't have the correct permissions, contact your system administrator.
Note
These settings might not yet be available in your environment. The settings availability depends on the region's release plan.
Copilot (preview)
[This section is prerelease documentation and is subject to change.]
Important
This is a preview feature.
Preview features aren’t meant for production use and might have restricted functionality. These features are subject to supplemental terms of use, and are available before an official release so that customers can get early access and provide feedback.
Setting
Description
Default value
Enable new AI-powered Copilot features for people who make apps.
When On, lets preview Copilot features that help create apps, tables apps, tables, edit apps, generate formulas, answering how-to questions and AI Builder GPT experiences. Learn more in AI Copilot overview . Note: Generally available Copilot features are turned on by default and can't be turned off. To turn them off, a tenant admin must contact support.
On
Allow users to analyze data using an AI-powered chat experience in canvas and model-driven apps. Note: For model-driven apps, this environment needs to be set to the monthly release channel.
Allow canvas editors to insert the Copilot answer component, which allows users to receive an AI-powered answer to a predefined data query.
When On, lets makers add a Copilot answer control that allows users to receive an AI-powered answer to a predefined question set by a maker. Learn more in Use Copilot answer control for canvas apps (preview).
Off
Copilot Studio agents
Accessing transcripts from conversations in Copilot Studio agents
Setting
Description
Default value
Allow agent owners and editors to see session transcripts from conversation interactions
When On, makers and admins can see and download transcripts in Copilot Studio for agents in the environment. When turned off, the options to see or download transcripts is unavailable.
On
Allow conversation transcripts and their associated metadata to be saved in Dataverse (required for enhanced reporting).
When On, transcripts are saved in Dataverse and can be viewed and downloaded in Power Apps. When turned off, transcripts aren't saved for any conversations that occur in the environment. Transcripts for conversations that occurred before saving was turned off are still available. If this setting is re-enabled, transcripts are only saved for any conversations that occur after the setting is re-enabled in the environment. Transcripts for conversations that occurred when the setting was off will still be unavailable.
On
Sharing Copilot Studio agent data with Viva Insights
Setting
Description
Default value
Allow Copilot Studio to share data with Viva Insights
Allow cross-geo boundary sharing of aggregated analytics data of your tenant preferred data location for Viva Insights is different than the location of your Copilot Studio environment
For tenants with Power Platform environments across multiple geos. When On, Microsoft Copilot Studio is sent and stored in the base location of the tenant in Viva Insights, even when crossing geo boundaries. Requires turning on Allow Copilot Studio to share data with Viva Insights.
Off
Dataverse intelligence (preview)
[This section is prerelease documentation and is subject to change.]
Important
This is a preview feature.
Preview features aren’t meant for production use and might have restricted functionality. These features are subject to supplemental terms of use, and are available before an official release so that customers can get early access and provide feedback.
Setting
Description
Default value
Allow data availability in Microsoft 365 Copilot
When On, allows Dynamics 365 and Dataverse data to be available in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat.
Off
Turn on Dataverse intelligence (Work IQ) for agents and AI experiences
When On, allows reusable business context business skills to be used by your agents.
Off
Dataverse Model Context Protocol
Setting
Description
Default value
Allow MCP clients to interact with Dataverse MCP server
When selected, allows MCP clients such as Copilot Studio, Visual Studio Code, and other non-Microsoft clients that have been enabled through Advanced Settings to connect to Dataverse.
Preview and experimental AI models (formerly AI Builder)
Setting
Description
Default value
Enable the usage of preview and experimental AI models in Copilot Studio and in flows and apps using AI prompts or AI Builder model types.
If Off, the environment doesn't have access to AI models that are experimental or in preview. Learn more about the related details in Preview and experimental AI models.
On
External models
Setting
Description
Default value
Enable the usage of external AI models in Copilot Studio and in flows and apps using AI prompts or AI Builder model types
Enable the AI prompts feature in Power Platform and Copilot Studio.
If you turn off AI prompts, you aren't be able to use custom or prebuilt prompts. These prompts are essential for tasks like summarizing, categorizing, translating, text completion and generation, and more. They help automate and streamline your work in Power Automate, Power Apps, and Copilot Studio.Learn more in Enable or disable AI prompts in Power Platform and Copilot Studio.
On
AI form fill assistance
Note
Users might need to clear the cache and refresh the browser twice for the setting change to take effect.
DefaultNote: If the Default option is selected, the feature is turned on for users of Dynamics 365 model-driven apps, and the feature is kept off for users of Power Apps model-driven apps.
Smart paste and file suggestions
Smart paste and file suggestions (production-ready preview) use the text or image copied to your clipboard or files you upload via the form fill assist toolbar to suggest text for specific fields. They also provide inline suggestions in the form. Learn more in Use smart paste.
DefaultNote: In the monthly channel, if the Default option is selected, the feature is turned on for users of Dynamics 365 model-driven apps, and the feature is kept off for users of Power Apps model-driven apps.
Form fill assist toolbar
The form fill assist toolbar lets users access form fill assistance features, view and manage suggestions in the form, and provide feedback.
DefaultNote: In the monthly channel, if the Default option is selected, the feature is turned on for users of all model-driven apps. The toolbar appears when at least one of the above AI form fill assistance features is enabled. You can override this setting for individual apps using the form fill assist toolbar setting in app designer, documented in Features.
[This section is prerelease documentation and is subject to change.]
Important
This is a preview feature.
Preview features aren’t meant for production use and might have restricted functionality. These features are subject to supplemental terms of use, and are available before an official release so that customers can get early access and provide feedback.
Setting
Description
Default value
Allow users to get AI suggestions when creating formula columns.
If On, app makers are able to describe what the formula should do and get AI generated results to help create or edit a Microsoft Dataverse formula column. Formula suggestions in formula columns accept natural language input to interpret and suggest a Power Fx formula using a GPT-based AI model. Learn more in Get formula suggestions.
Off
Natural language grid and view search
Setting
Description
Default value
Enable this feature for:
When searching for data in a grid, you can ask questions with natural language. For example, requesting "cases with high priority with overdue follow-up by date" filters your view to display only those relevant cases. Learn more in Smart grid (preview).To allow natural language search in an environment, users in that environment must have a Dynamics 365 license. If the environment only has users with Power Apps licensing, other Copilot licenses are required to use this feature in production.
Users as the feature becomes available (default)Note: Starting with the December monthly channel, users with Dynamics 365 licenses start seeing the feature in their apps. We expect this rollout to be gradual. While quality of the feature is maintained for all users, it's possible that different users might see some UI variations in their experience.
Allow AI to generate charts to visualize the data in a view (Preview)
When On, users can select the Visualize button on the view pages of model-driven apps to see an AI-generated chart that aggregates the records in the view to show trends and distributions. Learn more in Visualize data in a view with AI.
AutoThis feature is turned on by default for all users who have Natural language grid and view search turned on.
Apply AI-generated chart styling to all charts
When On, charts created from the legacy chart designer have the same usability enhancements like modern colors and styling as AI-generated charts. Learn more in Visualize data in a view with AI.
AutoThis feature is turned on by default for all users that have Allow AI to generate charts to visualize the data in a view set to On .
AI insight cards
Important
Admin controls for the AI insights cards feature is changing to have the primary admin control within Copilot > Settings > Power Apps > Summary. In the coming weeks, the new admin controls will appear and provide increased admin control for environment groups and Entra group support. The following settings will be removed from the Environment > Settings > Features page and be accessed through Model App Designer Setting or Solution Explorer App Settings. Learn more at Adming controls for Row summary.
Setting
Description
Default value
Displays a summary generated by AI on records in model-driven app main forms.
Import Excel to existing table with assisted mapping (preview)
[This section is prerelease documentation and is subject to change.]
Important
This is a preview feature.
Preview features aren’t meant for production use and might have restricted functionality. These features are subject to supplemental terms of use, and are available before an official release so that customers can get early access and provide feedback.
Setting
Description
Default value
Allow users to import Excel to existing table with AI-assisted mapping.
If On, Customer Engagement (on-premises) users need to enter a Bing Maps key. Users don't need to enter a key.
Off
Prevent social data in Dynamics
If you don't want to receive social data in customer engagement apps (such as Dynamics 365 Sales and Customer Service), select Off. If you disable social engagement, your organization can't receive social data in customer engagement apps (such as Dynamics 365 Sales and Customer Service). Users can continue to work with existing social data, however.
Off
Communications
Setting
Description
Default value
Country/region code prefixing for numbers
If On, customer engagement apps prefix the country/region code to numbers that users are trying to call.
Enable Power Automate automation center preview features
If On, preview features are available in the automation center alongside the generally available features.
On
Enhanced desktop flows schema
Setting
Description
Default value
Enable storage of desktop flow files into v2 schema.
If On, Dataverse database consumption for paid license users is reduced. Also, it offloads components of your desktop flows into your Dataverse for Apps File Capacity. Learn more in Enable the v2 schema.
On
Opt-out of desktop flow schema v2 enabled by default.
In 2024, v2 schema is turned On for all environments without the option to turn off the feature. We recommend turning on the feature in advance so users can benefit from the product enhancements. Learn more in Schema v2 enabled by default.
Off
Desktop flow run action logs configuration
Setting
Description
Default value
Activation status of run action logs.
Defines when desktop flow run action logs should be captured and even allows you to turn them off completely. Learn more in Desktop flow action logs configuration.
Determines how long action logs should be retained in the Flow Logs elastic table. Dataverse automatically deletes records that are older than the specified time-frame. Learn more in Configure desktop flow action log version.
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Savings
Setting
Description
Default value
Disable money saving rules.
When On, prevents makers from creating money savings rules and track money savings generated by their Power Automate automations (cloud flows) and by their Microsoft Copilot Studio automations (agent flows and agents). Any pre-existing money saving rule at time of enforcement stops generating new money saving records, but pre-existing money saving records remain. Learn more in Savings in Power Automate for makers.
Off
Time to live (in days) of savings events in Flow Aggregation entity
Determines how long savings records (not savings rules) should be retained in the Flow Aggregation entity. Dataverse automatically deletes records that are older than the specified time frame. Agents' savings aren't stored using the Flow Aggregation entity and aren't impacted by this setting.
Desktop flow repair at runtime configuration (preview)
[This section is prerelease documentation and is subject to change.]
Important
This is a preview feature.
Preview features aren’t meant for production use and might have restricted functionality. These features are subject to supplemental terms of use, and are available before an official release so that customers can get early access and provide feedback.
Setting
Description
Default value
Repair attended flows at runtime
When On, users are able to turn on the feature that allows them to repair attended desktop flows at runtime. Learn more in Repair flow automation errors (preview).
On
Repair unattended flows at runtime
When On, users are able to turn on the feature that allows them to repair unattended desktop flows at runtime. Learn more in Repair flow automation errors (preview).
On
Grids and views
Setting
Description
Default value
Enable the modern read-only grid experience.
If On, the Power Apps read-only grid control lets users view and open records from views and subgrids.
On
Show the Edit columns button on views
If On, users can create personal views by adding, removing, and reordering columns on a view accessible to them in a model-driven app. Learn more in Edit columns on a grid page. This setting only appears if you turned on 2022 Release Wave 1.
On
Show the Edit filters button on views
If On, users can create personal views by filtering data based on conditional expressions starting with a view accessible to them in a model-driven app. Learn more in Edit filters on a grid page. This setting only appears if you turned on 2022 Release Wave 1.
On
Enable focused view for all records.
Focused view allows you to view and manage account, contact, lead, opportunity, and other records and their associated activities on one page. Learn more in View and manage records in focused view.
On
Advanced find options
Setting
Description
Default value
Modern advanced find in model-driven apps
If On, legacy advanced find is replaced with a modern experience that enhanced view management capabilities like searching on views and the ability to share, hide, and delete personal views. Learn more in Advanced find in model-driven apps. This setting only appears if you turned on 2022 Release Wave 1.
On
Allow users to hide system views
If On, users can hide system views in the view selector to manage their view list in model-driven apps. Learn more in Hide views on a grid page. This setting only appears if you turned on 2022 Release Wave 1.
Off
Activities
Setting
Description
Default value
Show only activities configured in the app when accessing New activity button in related activities of a record. Setting to Off shows all activities.
To limit the number of activities showing up in the New Activity dropdown list to activities that are relevant to the model-driven app, select On.
Off
Asynchronous merge
Setting
Description
Default value
Allow records to be merged asynchronously
If On, records merged through the Unified Client interface are merged asynchronously in the background.
Off
Create new canvas apps and cloud flows in Dataverse solutions
Time in seconds of when this run record is automatically deleted.
Enabled - 28 days retention (default)
Block unmanaged customizations
Setting
Description
Default value
Dataverse blocks unmanaged customizations in the environment.
Prevents the creation of unmanaged customizations in Dataverse environments, which facilitates healthy application lifecycle management. Learn more in Block unmanaged customizations (preview).
Off
Data validation
Setting
Description
Default value
Enable email address validation in model-driven apps (preview).
Earlier versions of the Power Platform lacked a security model to restrict access to attachments. This setting was introduced to allow customers to revert in case any issues arose with the implementation of attachment security enforcement. It's recommended that this setting remains enabled.
On
Microsoft Fabric
Setting
Description
Default value
Enable admins to link Dataverse tables with a Microsoft Fabric workspace and get real-time insights.
Enables a system admin to disable the "Link to Fabric: feature in the selected environment. The Link to Fabric feature is used to get insights on Dataverse and Finance and operations data. Admins can reduce data exposure by disabling this feature in specific environments such as sandbox and dev environments.
On
Enable users to define Dataverse virtual tables using data from Microsoft Fabric and build apps (preview).
Enables a system admin to disable the feature where makers can create virtual tables using Fabric OneLake data. While this feature is useful for building apps and driving insights from Fabric One Lake data, admins can disable this feature in specific sandbox and developer environments as needed.
On
Power Automate capacity
Setting
Description
Default value
Allow process capacity overage
When On, enables machines and cloud flows to go into process capacity overage. New process capacity overage is only possible in an environment with at least one process / hosted process / unattended capacity assigned. Learn more in Process capacity overage.
On
Allow auto-claim of process capacity
When On, enables automatic assignment of process capacity to the environment (if any is available in the admin center) when required by an assignation of process capacity to a cloud flow, or to a machine while there's no available capacity in the environment. Learn more in Process capacity.
On
Search
Setting
Description
Default value
Dataverse search
If On, you can use Dataverse search to find records across multiple tables, sorted by relevance.
Off
Single table search option
If On, users get another option to search on a single table on view pages of search-enabled tables in all model-driven apps.
Off
Prevent slow keyword filter for quick find terms on view pages
If On, users are prevented from searching with keywords that begin with an asterisk (*) in grid search in all model-driven apps, and a message displays in the application. If Off, users can search with keywords that begin with an asterisk (*) in grid search in all model-driven apps, but an information tooltip displays indicating the search might be slow. Learn more in Grid search.
Use quick find view of an entity for searching on grids and subgrids
Select Yes to show the traditional Quick Find search in an entity grid. The traditional Quick Find search applies the Quick Find View filters and displays the Quick Find columns after searching.
Off
Search for records in Microsoft 365 apps
You can quickly enable your users to access the records they most recently used in their application. The records are available in the Outlook Web client using a simple /mention gesture.
On
Map and address services
Setting
Description
Default value
Limited
Select On to allow map display, latitude, and longitude pins, and shapes.
On
Full
In addition to the Limited actions, allows map routing, address input control, and pins loaded from addresses.
Off
Help features
Setting
Description
Default value
Custom help for customizable tables
Select On to replace the default Help content with custom Help designed for your users. After you enable custom Help, you can enter a Global Custom Help URL.
Off
Global custom help URL
To replace the default Help with a single URL for all customizable record types (tables), enter the URL here. You also have the option of entering override URLs for each record type (table) for customizable record types. Learn more in Create your own guided help.
No default value
Append parameters to URL
Select On to append parameters to the URL, you can make your Help content more dynamic. For example, you can access parameters for User Language Code, Table Name, Entry Point, and Form ID. Learn more in Create your own guided help.
Allow publishing of canvas apps with code components
In Power Apps, when importing a solution that includes a Power Apps component framework component, it's essential that the target environment has the Allow publishing of canvas apps with code components setting turned on. This setting must be turned on prior to deployment, otherwise the component framework component doesn't function properly within canvas apps.After the setting is turned on, and the solution is successfully imported and published. The component becomes part of the app's runtime. As a result, even if the setting is turned off afterwards, the Power Apps component framework continues to work as expected. However, if you need to make further updates or republish the app with changes to the component framework, you must turn on the setting again to ensure continued support for code components.This setting is critical for environments that use custom controls or UI enhancements built with the component framework inside canvas apps.
Off
Power Apps code apps
Setting
Description
Default value
Enable code apps
Allow users to bring apps they created outside of Power Apps and run them in Power Apps. If this setting is turned off, those apps don't run.Learn more about Power Apps code apps.
Off
Delete disabled users
Setting
Description
Default value
Enable delete disabled users
Lets you delete disabled users permanently from the environment. Learn more in Permanently delete users.
When off, all environment users have access to the TDS endpoint. If on, users only have access when members of a security role that has the Allow user to access TDS endpoint privilege. Learn more in Control access of the TDS endpoint.
Disable empty address record creation in Dataverse
When On, if the incoming payload doesn't have any address relevant data, an empty address data record aren't created. This feature is supported only for Account and Contact tables. Learn more in Disable empty record creation.
Off
Enable deletion of address records
Setting
Description
Default value
Enable deletion of address records in Dataverse
When On, address records created in Dataverse for Account and Contact tables can be deleted through the user interface or through bulk deletion. Learn more in Delete embedded address records.
Off
Block deletion of out-of-the-box attribute maps
Setting
Description
Default value
Block deletion of out-of-the-box attribute maps.
When On, the platform allows deletion of out-of-the-box attribute mappings introduced by Microsoft solutions.
On
Power Apps ideas for canvas apps
Setting
Description
Default value
Share ideas query data to help improve ideas results.
To help Microsoft improve Power Apps Ideas, you can share your ideas query data with Microsoft. Learn more in Power Apps Ideas.
[This section is prerelease documentation and is subject to change.]
Important
This is a preview feature.
Preview features aren’t meant for production use and might have restricted functionality. These features are subject to supplemental terms of use, and are available before an official release so that customers can get early access and provide feedback.
Setting
Description
Default value
Keep deleted Dataverse records.
When On, you can use this feature for Dataverse tables to restore deleted records.