Power Platform Weekly - Issue #156
Power Platform Weekly - Issue #156
Happy New Year!
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
New year, new possibilities! ✨ What do you want to learn this year? Tell us in a comment to this post.
Perhaps you want to learn more about the AI features in Power Platform? Something that went into General Availability recently was AI Builder GPT Prompts. Read the announcement.
Also take a look at Ashish Bhatia’s posts; comparison of OpenAI's GPTs with AI Builder Prompts and No-Code AI Cheat Sheet by AI Builder as well as the AI Builder Prompting Guide.
Manuela Pichler wished us all Happy New Year along with the CoE Starter Kit and ALM Accelerator January release announcement. 🎉
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Streamlining Integration: Using Azure Managed identities in Power Apps and Power Automate to access Microsoft Graph API – Part 1
🦸🏻♀️ Mohamed Ashiq Faleel created a blog series in 3 parts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
It is dedicated to utilizing managed identities either System Assigned or User Assigned in Power Platform to access MS Graph API endpoints. Securing these integrations with Azure Managed Identities significantly enhances the overall security of the solution.
Let's Talk About The New Power Automate UI
🦸🏻♀️ If anyone follows David Wyatt on LinkedIn they will know he has been vocal about the new Power Automate UI. He has collected his thoughts, with 'The Hits', 'The Misses' and the 'If Onlys'.
PCF Custom Events – Sneak Peak
👩💻 Custom Events for PCF is a much awaited feature. Lately we’ve got the documentation for events. We were able to use events before. But we were very limited, because we could use only trigger standard events. Diana Birkelbach will show you how to use these new custom events.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ D365 HR + Excel = OOB Reports by Ana Inés Urrutia
👩💻 Snowfall animation for Power Pages by Oleksandr Olashyn
🦸🏻♀️ A new approach to error handling in Power Automate by Pieter Veenstra
🦸🏻♀️ Using Form Capture With Realtime Marketing Form Submissions by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Lookup Fields With Default Option Available On Realtime Form by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Power Apps Cards - When do they suit you? by Éric Sauvé
🦸🏻♀️ For Dummies: creating an internal Microsoft Power Platform hub (from the template) by Olena Grischenko
🦸🏻♀️ Santa’s “Ho Ho Ho” message to welcome good Makers (Managed Environments) by Olena Grischenko
🦸🏻♀️ Copilot Studio: Dynamics Chaining with Generative Actions (preview) by Dian Taylor
👩💻 Power Pages: Multiselect Change Event - Engineered Code by Nicholas Hayduk
🦸🏻♀️ Challenge 024 | Approvals Kit by Miguel Verweij
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 What is TypeScript, pros and cons and how it helps in Model Driven Apps by Wilmer Alcivar
🦸🏻♀️ Use a Power Apps app in Microsoft Teams as a personal and/or channel tab by Yannick Reekmans
🦸🏻♀️ Power Apps Tracks Santa by David Wyatt
🦸🏻♀️ Design Canvas App using the Figma UI kit by Inogic
🦸🏻♀️ Custom Actions with Power Automate Desktop Flows by Inogic
🦸🏻♀️ Filtering embedded Power BI reports by Jesper Osgaard
🦸🏻♀️ Testdriving the year-end release of the Approvals Kit by Tuomas Anto
🦸🏻♀️🛠️ Flow Execution History - Christmas Edition (LinkedIn post) by Ivan Ficko
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🛠️ New releases! Latebound Constants Generator & UML Diagram Generator for XrmToolBox (LinkedIn post) by Jonas Rapp
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Low Down on Low-Code Podcast
🧭 Low-code is not new, but it has matured to the point where IT needs to make it part of an overall enterprise development strategy. In this episode, we interview John Rymer, former Forrester analyst and inventor of the term "low-code". John discusses the drivers for his investment in low-code research, the origins of the current push toward low-code development, and some of the sea changes that come with embracing this new development methodology.
The Intrazone Podcast
🤵🏻 Ho ho ho, Merry SharePoint! December 2023 brought a lot to review AND a lot to look forward to. We'll focus on everything that landed this past month: SharePoint eSignature, Stream: Add a survey, poll, quiz, link or text, Viva Engage: Community creation API, OneDrive app for Teams, OneDrive: Open in app, Microsoft 365 Backup (Public Preview), Microsoft Loop moves to loop.cloud.microsoft, and indicating the retirement of Delve in Dec. 16, 2024. And then, we'll highlight the top 5 SharePoint tech items of 2023, peek ahead at 5 anticipated features slated for CY24-Q1, shine a light on a few related items, hit up the always fun teasers AND stick around: We've cooked up a bonus festive song for you titled, "It's beginning to look a lot like SharePoint" - it's queried at number one on the Power BI charts :).
Everything AI Podcast
👩💻 There's one secret skill for more effective prompting! It's a skill set that we all have but not recognized as something you can use toward prompts. Even better, we have an OpenAI Ambassador here to help talk about prompting and how to do it effectively. Abran Maldonado joins us to discuss what that secret skill is and how you can use it for better results.
📅 Events & Webinars
Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2024
(📅 February 1-2, 2024)
CTTT is a Microsoft Cloud Community event with the purpose of bringing technology and community leaders to Tallinn to share their learning with the local community
Microsoft 365 Community Day Miami
(📅 February 2, 2024)
Get ready to be inspired and learn at the Microsoft 365 Community Day Miami! This event is all about unlocking the full potential of Microsoft 365, the Power Platform, and Artificial Intelligence. Whether you’re a tech enthusiast, a business owner, or just curious about the latest advancements in technology, this event is for you.
European Collaboration Summit
(📅 May 14-16, 2024)
With 2,500+ attendees, the European Collaboration Summit is the largest conference in the world focused on Microsoft 365 and Power Platform.
DynamicsMinds
(📅 May 27-29, 2024)
An awesome Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Community Conference. Where brilliant minds meet, mingle & share.
European Power Platform Conference 2024
(📅 June 11-13, 2024)
The 3rd European Power Platform Conference (EPPC) will take place in Brussels, Belgium, June 11-13, 2024 at Square. The European Power Platform Conference brings together the Microsoft Power Platform Community for 3 invaluable days of in-person learning, connections and inspiration.
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