Power Pages: Design studio - Enhance OpenID Connect with encrypted token support
This feature adds support for token-level encryption during authentication, allowing Power Pages to accept encrypted ID tokens in addition to signed tokens. It ensures secure claim transmission, improves compatibility with advanced identity providers, and strengthens overall auth
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What it is
Power Pages: Design studio - Enhance OpenID Connect with encrypted token support is a Microsoft 365 roadmap item published via Microsoft Release Communications. Current status: In development.
What it does
This feature adds support for token-level encryption during authentication, allowing Power Pages to accept encrypted ID tokens in addition to signed tokens. It ensures secure claim transmission, improves compatibility with advanced identity providers, and strengthens overall authentication security without changing existing sign-in flows. Business Value: You can integrate with more secure identity providers to meet stricter security and compliance requirements. This helps you expand into high-trust scenarios and allows your organization to confidently use Power Pages for sensitive, external-facing applications. Enabled for: Enabled for end users automatically
Why you should care
Board
Security/compliance control — fund Steady before more seats.
CISO
Prioritise as Steady control; wire into IR and GRC evidence paths.
CFO
Map licence or consumption impact to the frozen value case; avoid seat spray.
Adoption
Pilot with a named cohort and measure changed work, not vanity clicks.
Suggested action
Wave 0 first: Security → GRC → Cost & Value → Licence → Adoption. Add to Horizon watchlist with an owner. Pilot only after Steady controls for the affected surface are in place.
12 Panes: 03 Horizon · 04 Security · 05 GRC · 08 Adoption
Communication needed
- Security: Lead review; confirm control mapping before enablement.
- GRC: Update AI/agent register and evidence path; confirm DPIA triggers if personal data is in scope.
- FinOps: Forecast seat or credit impact; align to frozen value case.
- Adoption: Plan cohort messaging, clinics, and success measures.
- Comms: One story for board and staff — what changes, what does not, who owns risk.
Benefits
- May improve productivity on a specific Microsoft 365 surface when permissions and data quality allow.
- Roadmap visibility helps Horizon planning without guessing dates.
Risks
- Status and dates change; treat MRC as directional, not a contract.
- Enabling without Steady controls can amplify overshare or cost leakage.
- Preview or rolling features can change behaviour; fence exploration on Pane 12 Frontier.
Source
- MRC id: 576395
- Status: In development
- Products: Power Pages
- GA / disclosure: December CY2026
- Preview: August CY2026
- Platforms: Web
- Cloud instances: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
- moreInfoUrls: —
- Open on Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Microsoft Release Communications / Microsoft 365 Roadmap (AI at Work). Content is subject to Microsoft API Terms of Use. Dates and status change; verify in the official roadmap before acting.