Power Platform Weekly - Issue #136
Taking a summer break. Don't forget about Microsoft Inspire July 18-19!
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the June 2023 update of Power Automate for Desktop was presented.
A new Power Platform Challenge came out.
Summer Holiday is approaching. Power Platform Weekly will take a summer break and we wish all our readers a great time the upcoming weeks. 🌴😎⛱🌞
Don’t forget that Microsoft Inspire will take place July 18-19.
Thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Power Platform’s protection — Defender for Cloud Apps
🚀 Raphaël Pothin thought it could be interesting to explore a key solution of the Microsoft cloud that will allow us to apply controls while using Power Platform: Defender for Cloud Apps.
Power Platform | Pro-Dev 💔 Low Code
🧭 Carsten Groth writes about the future of Pro-dev and Low code. He gives arguments why developers should adopt low code into their existing list of tools they can use.
How to - Make a Flow Chart Power App
🦸🏻♀️ With most LowCode, if we think outside of the box we can create a custom component like experience. How exactly? Certain API's (some free) allow you to unload the complexity to outside of the app. In this blog David Wyatt shows how to create a Flow diagram tool using this strategy.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Using Defaults From Email Templates In Real-time Marketing by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Smart Org Chart (Preview) by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️ Dynamics 365 Real-time Marketing Segments with Power Automate by Amey Holden
🚀 Power Automate licensing – watch out for those limits by Alex Shlega
🚀 Power Automate Licensing for in-context flows by Alex Shlega
🦸🏻♀️ Column-Level Security- What is that? by Ashwin Ganesh Kumar
🦸🏻♀️ Understanding Partition Id and Time to live columns in Dataverse Elastic tables by Debajit Dutta
🦸🏻♀️ Omnichannel for Customer Service – Voice Greeting by Neil Parkhurst
🚀 Cost optimization: older mails in Dataverse now stored in Dataverse File Storage by jopx
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
The Hanselminutes Podcast
👩💻 🦸🏻♀️ Fundamentals for Self-Taught Programmers with Jasmine Greenaway.
Dynamics Hotdish Podcast
🧭 It’s hard to believe the inaugural Microsoft Power Platform Conference was just last year! It began with a BANG where industry professionals flocked to Florida to learn all about the capabilities of the Power Platform. It’s time to start thinking about the Power Platform Conference again this year since it’s coming up quickly in Las Vegas.
Asif Rehmani joins us this week to give some insider info and tips about the conference, including what sessions you can expect to find and who should (and should not) attend.
M365 Developer Podcast
👩💻 Julie Turner joined Paul to discuss her session from the European Collaboration Summit discussing concepts for building React components.
📅 Events & Webinars
Microsoft Inspire
(📅 July 18-19)
Elevate your business by joining the largest partner event of the year - July 18–19, 2023.
Scottish Summit 2023 (On Tour)
(📅 August 5)
This year Scottish Summit goes on tour! This year, the Scottish Summit will not take place in Scotland, but in Manchester! Don’t miss this event since it will be a must-attend event!
Nordic Summit
(📅 September 23)
Nordic Summit will be taking place as an in-person event on the 23rd of September 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Microsoft Power Platform Conference
(📅 October 3-5)
Get inspired by Microsoft’s senior thought leaders, software engineers, and community experts who are focused on uniting humanity and technology. You’ll also have the chance to hear from users that solve real business problems daily. Fantastic speakers are ready to share their insights on how to accelerate and transform your business with Power Platform.
South Coast Summit
(📅 October 13-14)
South Coast Summit focuses on all key pillars of the Microsoft ecosystem: Business Applications, Modern Work, Security & Compliance, through to Microsoft Azure.
Microsoft Ignite
(📅 November 15-16)
Join the next Microsoft Ignite event November 15–16, 2023, to catch up on the latest industry innovations. Sign up to be one of the first to know when registration launches.
European SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure Conference
(📅 November 27-30)
ESPC helps IT Pros, Developers, Makers & Business Decision Makers achieve project and career success with leading Microsoft technologies.
💙 Out of the Blue
June 2023 update of Power Automate for desktop
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 In the June update of Power Automate for desktop work item queues as well as the OneDrive for Business connector action have been introduced!
Microsoft is a leader in 2023 Forrester Wave Low-Code Platforms for Professional Developers
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Microsoft is named a leader in The Forrester Wave™ Low-Code Development Platforms for Professional Developers Q2 2023. Read more about why that is, in the blog post by Ryan Cunningham!
Announcing monthly channel for model-driven apps
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 A new release channel has been announced for model-driven apps in public and sovereign clouds. You’re now able to receive more frequent updates instead of the twice per year updates we all know from before!
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