Microsoft Power Pages | Get Started

Earlier this year on Microsoft Build, Microsoft announced the preview of Microsoft Power Pages, the fifth product in the Microsoft Power Pages Platform family followed by Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps, and Power Virtual Agents. So, in this blog post, we will be discussing what is Microsoft Power Pages, what its use of it, and how to get started with it.

Microsoft Power Pages is a secure, enterprise-grade, low-code software as a service (SaaS) platform for creating, hosting and administering modern external-facing business websites. It does not matter whether you are a low-code maker or a professional developer, Power Pages enables you to quickly design, configure, and publish websites that seamlessly work across web browsers and different devices. So, in this, we will discuss how to get started with Microsoft Power Pages which is currently in preview.

Prerequisites

Try the 30-day trial to explore the key features of Power Pages. Click on this link to sign up for a free Power Pages trial subscription.

The best practice is to create a new environment from the admin center to create the sites instead of using the default environment which is shared across all users in the tenant.

Getting started with Microsoft Power Pages

In this section, you will see how to get started with creating the external facing sites using Power Pages and to learn the new features and functionality.

1.Open the web browser and navigate to https://make.powerpages.microsoft.com/.

2.Once done you would receive the below message in the home page which states, “You can’t create sites in the default environment”. So please make sure to create an environment in the admin center first as that is a basic prerequisite.

 3.Once done, click on the Environment option in the top right corner and all the environments that are available as part of this tenant will be displayed as a drop-down list. Select the newly created environment (environment created for Power Pages where the sites need to be created. In this case it is PowerPagesPreview-082322-075628.