Power Platform Weekly - Issue #12

Articles

Jukka Niiranen continues his tradition, writing an end of the year retrospective about the top 3 topics that he has found to be most interesting or impactful for our ecosystem. What are the three most important topics that shaped the world of Power Platform and Dynamics 365 in the year 2020?

The OOTB account hierarchies functionality in Microsoft Dataverse lets us specify a parent account for a certain account as well as account children. Jonas Rapp shows us how we can create one single Power Automate flow in order to maintain the Top Parent Account on all Accounts in Microsoft Dataverse.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Platform | Wrapping up 2020 by Carsten Groth

🦸🏻‍♀️ Top 10 Power Apps Tips Of 2020 by Matthew Devaney

🦸🏻‍♀️ Keeping Scottish Summit 2021 in Sync by Matt Beard

🦸🏻‍♀️ Deploying ProjOps for Dataverse+F&O based integrated scenarios, Part II – T2 F&O with Dataverse by Antti Pajunen

🦸🏻‍♀️ Track the last time someone spoke with a Lead/Contact  by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ Parallel Branching in Cloud Flows – Isolate Response dependent Step Actions in parallel branches | Quick Tip by Priyesh Wagh

🦸🏻‍♀️ Getting started with Power BI deployment pipelines by Dharanidharan Balasubramaniam

🦸🏻‍♀️ Mitch’s PowerPoint library released to GitHub by Mitch Milam

🦸🏻‍♀️ D365 Reports - Parameters and Filters and Pain by Ed Gonzales

🦸🏻‍♀️ Looking back at 2020 – The world got virtual and two types of t(T)eams were in the center of attention by Carina M. Claesson

Tools & Code

Tae Rim Han has been exploring the combination of Microsoft Graph Toolkit and Power Apps Component Framework. In this article she explains what the Microsoft Graph Toolkit is and then shares the implementation challenges when combining with PCF.

🚀 Release v1.0.0 - daryllabar/DLaB.RoleLogger - GitHub by Daryl Labar

👩‍💻 How to Set Value in A Regarding Field Using Easyrepro in Dynamics CRM by Inogic

👩‍💻 TDS Endpoint Queries with Time Zone and User details by Mark Carrington

Videos

Podcasts

In this show, the creators of the Up Podcast theuppodcast.com, Megan V Walker and Lisa Crosbie join Vivek Bavishi to chat about the Power Platform and other fun things.

Today, Ben and Scott discuss upcoming changes to the certification renewal process for Microsoft's role-based certifications and some upcoming name changes that may impact your advanced hunting queries in Microsoft 365 Defender.

The managing editor of Dynamics Chronicles, Lloyd Sebag, started a conversation into the XTB tools documented on the site, but then dove into much much more!

Events & Webinars

Join the Kansas City User Group for an online meeting on January 14th. The subject is Power Platform ALM.

Out of the blue

We missed the Automate It! series about "HEAT" just before Christmas, but it's worth to take a look at:

🦸🏻‍♀️ Automate It. Special - Part 1 | Introducing HEAT and what’s new in Power Automate RPA

🦸🏻‍♀️ Automate It. Special - Part 2 | Empower, Discover & Plan

🦸🏻‍♀️ Automate It. Special - Part 3 | Design Phase

🦸🏻‍♀️ Automate It. Special - Part 4 | Build & Test

🦸🏻‍♀️ Automate It. Special - Part 5 | Deploy & Manage

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