Power Platform Weekly - Issue #158
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week it was announced that Copilot in Power BI (preview) now is available worldwide (to all customers with Premium/Fabric capacity).
Have you heard about PACX? It’s an open source extension of the Power Platform CLI. Read more about it in Riccardo Gregori's post.
Teams Nation 2024 will take place on February 21. The agenda is out and they have Power Platform related sessions included.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Copilot in the enhanced mobile experience for D365 Field Service (preview)
🦸🏻♀️ Dian Taylor explores the copilot feature, a significant component of the upgraded mobile experience in Field Service in this blog. Please be aware that since the copilot enhancements are currently in preview.
Segments in Customer Insights - Journeys: Activities (Email, Appointment, Phone Call etc.)
🦸🏻♀️ This post by Amey Holden will show you how to build segments using Dataverse activities such as Emails and Appointments, which you can then easily reuse for other ones such as custom activities, Tasks and Phone Calls.
PCF Controls with FluentUI v9 - Avoid DOM id collisions - It Must Be Code!
👩💻 Recently, while developing a PCF control with the FluentUI React v9 library, David Rivard encountered a rather unusual and annoying runtime display bug and he thought it deserved its own blog post.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Date and time columns in Dataverse by Nick Doelman
👩💻 How to fix “pac pcf push” issues with pac cli newer than 1.28.3 – publisher error or solution deleted by Diana Birkelbach
🦸🏻♀️ Redirect After Preference Centre Submission - Customise Form by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Understanding Your Unassigned Data In GA4 With Custom Channels by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ How to display a glyphicon on the Power Pages navigation bar - No code approach! by Namasi Naveretnam
🦸🏻♀️ Everything you didn't know you needed to know about Power Platform Solutions by David Wyatt
🦸🏻♀️ Offline Capabilities in the Canvas app within Dynamics 365 – Part 1 by Inogic
🦸🏻♀️ PowerPlatformTip 100 – Bypassing Complexity in PowerAutomate by Marcel Lehmann
🦸🏻♀️ Dataverse: Export-Import Solution for Virtual Table by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
🦸🏻♀️ Data Enigma by Angeliki Patsiavou
🦸🏻♀️ Omnichannel for Customer Service – Copilot Studio, Transfers to Agent Message by Neil Parkhurst
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Microsoft Mechanics Podcast
🛠️ Build and deploy copilot-style apps that leverage the power of both GPT-4 Turbo with Vision and Azure AI Vision and Search in Microsoft’s Azure AI Studio. Enable direct lookups from image inputs over your organizational data to ground generative AI responses. This marks a significant improvement in the accuracy of natural language processing and image recognition tasks to enable new generative AI scenarios. Video inputs are also uniquely supported when you combine GPT-4 Turbo with Vision and Azure AI Vision.
Run-As Radio Podcast
🚀 How is the Power Platform evolving? Richard chats with April Dunnam about the latest on the Power Platform - especially the emergence of Large Language Models like Copilot. April talks about how it's possible to use Copilots in Power Apps, Power BI, and Power Automate to help you build your automation - and how writing prompts can help you think through what you're trying to make. The conversation also digs into providing Copilots to users so that you spend less time creating UX and more time building features that the users can request. It's a Copilot world - we're just living in it!
Azure DevOps Podcast
👩💻 Scott Hanselman is a teacher at heart. He speaks all over to whoever will listen. He's written code that you, dear listener, have used. Scott has been blogging, coding, and podcasting for a LONG time. He codes, writes, speaks, empowers, promotes, braids, learns, and listens - usually not in that order. And he's a Vice President at Microsoft in his day job. You can find him on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Mastodon! His Hanselminutes podcast has surpassed 900 episodes, and his Azure Friday show, has over 750 episodes.
📅 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.
Teams Nation
(📅 February 21, 2024)
Teams Nation is a 100% free, 100% community driven online conference dedicated to Microsoft Teams, it’s underlying technologies and it’s extensibility options.
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.
💙 Out of the Blue
Microsoft Named a Leader in the 2023 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide General Purpose Conversational AI Software
🧭 Microsoft Copilot Studio has been named as a leader for IDC MarketScape! It looks like the generative AI investment is paying off!
Copilot in Power BI (preview) is available worldwide
🦸🏻♀️🧭 Microsoft is really ramping up access to Copilots, because after the Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365, the Power BI Copilot preview is now available to all customers with Premium/Fabric capacity!
Dynamic subscriptions for Power BI reports (Preview)
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 A new preview has been available now for Power BI: dynamic subscriptions. This is a feature where you can now distribute a personalized copy of a Power BI report to each recipient of an email subscription.
Process Mining is Generally Available in GCC (Sovereign Region)
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Big news for GCC! The Process Mining capabilities in the Power Platform are now generally available! Make sure to try it out!
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