Power Platform Weekly - Issue #109
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Power Apps November 2022 Feature Update was presented, Power BI November 2022 Feature Summary highlighted and the on-premises data gateway November release announced.
PVA related content was highlighted in a PVA + Community post.
Microsoft also released the first post in a new series of post about security, Protecting data with Dataverse.
We got a tip from the FastTrack team, Power Pages Admin APIs 🚀
Don’t miss the Dataverse Advent Calendar 🎄 from Microsoft.
Congratulations to our own Magnus Gether Sørensen who got an early Christmas gift this year and is now a Microsoft BizApps MVP!
Thanks for reading and have a great week!
📰 Articles



Custom Connector: Extending your Power Apps using Azure Function and OpenAPI – Part One
👩💻 Allan De Castro is a big fan of Azure services and in particular Azure Functions. In this blog he will show the possibility to create a custom connector from an Azure Function using its Open API specification.
Build a Custom Page using Power Platform Creator Kit
🦸🏻♀️🛠️ Did you know that the Power Platform Creator Kit saves you a lot of time in creating a Custom Page? Join Wilmer Alcivar as he shows how to use the kit.
PCF: Solving issue with lookupObjects and modal dialogs layering
👩💻 During Andrew Butenko's last few projects he had to implement the same pattern: PCF control opens a Modal dialog. Dialog has controls that use OOB lookupObjects function to enter the data. Read the blog to figure out how to solve this issue.
Other articles
👩💻 Create solution’s setting file for export-import purposes (Power Automate + Dataverse) by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
🦸🏻♀️ Power Fx -Power Virtual Agents by Joe Gill
🦸🏻♀️ Use Unmapped Form Field To Capture Referral URL From Form by Megan V. Walker
🚀 Be mean by all means – quarantine that app if you don’t like it by Alex Shlega
🦸🏻♀️ Power Automate: Get list of values for Power Virtual Agents' list variable by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️ When maker portal hides things, admin portal might still reveal them by Alex Shlega
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
📅 Events & Webinars



Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2023
(📅 February 10th)
On the 10th of February 2023, Tallinn will host its very first Microsoft Cloud Technology Townhall. Bringing in inspiration, knowledge about possibilities and solutions within the Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, and Azure.
Iberian Technology Summit
(📅 April 28th-30th)
Establishing connection between people. As the rivers of Iberia established in the past and the evolution of technology does in the present, summit re-unites the Iberian community for better future.
European Collaboration Summit
(📅 May 22nd-24th)
With 2500+ attendees, the European Collaboration Summit is the largest European conference focused on Modern Work and Microsoft 365, featuring topics such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Business Apps and Power Platform. It hosts high ranking Microsoft executives, program managers and architects as speakers, as well as numerous Microsoft Regional Directors and Microsoft MVPs. With 75+ sponsors and exhibitors year after year, it features the largest Microsoft 365 – related expo in the world.
Dynamics Minds
(📅 May 22nd-24th)
An Awesome Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Community Conference. Where brilliant minds meet, mingle & share.
European Power Platform Conference
(📅 June 20th-22nd)
The 2nd European Power Platform Conference (EPPC) will take place in Dublin, Ireland from June 20 – 22nd 2023. The European Power Platform Conference brings together the Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 Communities for 3 unrivalled days of in-person learning, connections, and inspiration.
Nordic Summit
(📅 September 23rd)
Nordic Summit will be taking place as an in-person event on the 23rd of September 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
💙 Out of the Blue
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Protecting data with Dataverse
In this blog series, you can read about how to protect data in Dataverse from external and internal threats (both from internal users and Microsoft). In this post, the focus will be on protecting data from external threats.
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 Microsoft and PMI announce certifications for university students to drive employability
Microsoft and the Project Management Institute (PMI) are partnering to announce the Power Platform University Hub. The University Hub teaches students how to solve a wide range of business problems with low-code—one of the fastest growing technologies in the job landscape today.
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 What’s new: Power Apps November 2022 Feature Update
In this blog, you will read a recap of all the Power Apps blogs that have come out in November. So, if you want to get an overview of all the goodness that was introduced, this is your best source!
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Power BI November 2022 Feature Summary
In this blog, you will read a recap of all the Power BI blogs that have come out in November. So, if you want to get an overview of all the goodness that was introduced, this is your best source!
👩💻🚀 On-premises data gateway November release
The November release of the on-premises data gateway is out! There are no release notes added to the blog, so we'll have to guess what's in there...
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