The Power Platform Center of Excellence Started Kit has historically been a comprehensive reference implementation that demonstrates how to build sophisticated governance, monitoring, and adoption capabilities using Power Platform’s native low-code tools. This collection of components and solutions was there to help develop a strategy for adopting and supporting Power Platform while showcasing what’s possible with the platform’s out-of-the-box features.
Last week, Microsoft announced that the capabilities of the Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE) will be found directly in the Power Platform Admin Center (PPAC) through in-product experiences such as inventory, usage, monitor and actions. They will provide real-time visibility into resources, usage, operational health and governance insights in a centralized enterprise-scale experience.
Although the Power Platform CoE Starter Kit will remain available, there will be no new capabilities or enhancements, and any reported issues will no longer be reviewed or addressed.
The links below show the Power Platform Admin Center in-product experiences which are the alternative to the CoE Starter Kit capabilities:
- Resource Inventory
- Usage Insights
- Operational health and monitoring of resources
- Proactive governance
Microsoft will continue to share updates through blog posts as new in-product capabilities are introduced to succeed scenarios supported by the Power Platform CoE Starter Kit.
It makes a lot of sense for Microsoft to consolidate these governance capabilities directly into the Admin Center, as that should significantly streamline visibility and monitoring for enterprise teams. This shift likely reduces the overhead of maintaining a separate starter kit while delivering the same operational health insights where they are needed most. I’m curious to see how this in-product experience handles complex adoption strategies compared to the previous custom architecture.
This transition highlights the platform’s focus on real-time insights. Having centralized visibility for inventory, usage, and governance really positions teams to be proactive rather than reactive. It will be interesting to see how enterprises leverage these dashboards for better operational health.