Power Platform Weekly - Issue #162
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the February 2024 update of Power Automate for desktop was announced.
The Public Preview of blocking unmanaged customizations was announced.
The feature Copilot assistance for filling forms in model-driven apps was highlighted.
A new code sample in the Copilot Studio Samples repository was presented. Deploy a custom copilot to SharePoint.
Dani Kahil and Nick Doelman have created a Microsoft Power Pages Concepts Diagram, have a look!
PowerDocu 2.0.0.0 has been released.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
How to - Power Apps Getting Polling Update from File Upload
🦸🏻♀️David Wyatt has created an example of a canvas app that allows the user to upload large files and see the progress of the upload without freezing the app. See more to utilize this in your own life.
Keep your Dataverse solution clean and simple
🦸🏻♀️🛠️ It is important to keep your solutions as simple as possible to improve the solution import time and to avoid unexpected behaviour in the target environment. Linn Zaw Win gives several examples of how to avoid the clutter and ends with a tool to analyze your solutions.
List Segment Members from Customer Insights - Journeys in Power Automate
🦸🏻♀️ Once you work out how to wrangle with segments in the new ‘real-time marketing’ segment builder for in Dynamics 365 Marketing you can build some seriously impressive and complex data queries for Leads or Contacts stored in Dynamics 365 Dataverse. Amey Holden shows you how.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Providing Security Access To Users For Realtime Forms by Megan V. Walker
👩💻 Breaking down form script in Customer Insight Journeys by Gustaf Westerlund
🦸🏻♀️ Use Sales Copilot to see the leads and opportunities assigned (Dynamics 365) by Nishant Rana
🦸🏻♀️ Force populate a "Microsoft Entra ID"-based Team in Power Platform by Yannick Reekmans
🦸🏻♀️ Inventory Visibility Add-in. Dynamics 365 SCM and Power Platform : Instalation Guide by Mónica Andrea Pérez
🦸🏻♀️ Omnichannel for Customer Service – Change Agent Presence by Neil Parkhurst
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Knee-Deep in Tech Podcast
👩💻 In this episode, the trio covers several blog posts on Fabric and Synapse, several security updates in Azure as well as networking news!
Dynamics Hotdish Podcast
🧭 We had the privilege of sitting down with Ryan Cunningham, VP of Power Apps at Microsoft, while on-site at Microsoft Ignite. Ryan shares insights about his vision for Power Apps over the next few years, including incorporating Copilot capabilities.
Biz Apps Classroom Podcast
🤵🏻 The Biz Apps Classroom welcomes its first guest on this episode, Microsoft MVP and partner executive Vlad Sarov joins us to talk about the work he, podcast co-host Julie Yack, and others have been doing on a project to bring Microsoft Business Applications skills to adults in Ukraine through an ongoing series of training cohorts. The program follows Microsoft's prescribed Business Application professional skilling collection, but the team has taken the extra effort to translate the learning materials, adapt the guidance to allow for online interaction, and develop automated translation capabilities to allow trainers who don't speak Ukrainian to still help educate the students.
Vlad and Julie share the program's history, the team effort that was required to launch it and keep it running, the outcomes for graduates, and how they hope to expand the training to more cohorts in Ukraine and perhaps in other parts of the world.
📅 Events & Webinars
Teams Nation
(📅 February 21, 2024)
Teams Nation is a 100% free, 100% community driven online conference dedicated to Microsoft Teams, its underlying technologies and its extensibility options.
Data Saturday München 2024
(📅 February 24, 2024)
Data Saturday München is a free one-day event for professionals who use the Microsoft data platform and Microsoft Azure technologies. This community event offers content across data management, cloud and hybrid architecture, analytics, business intelligence, AI, and much more.
Canadian Power Platform Summit 2024
(📅 March 16, 2024)
Welcome to CPPS inaugural edition, a celebration of innovation, collaboration, and all things Power Platform, eh! Join us in the beautiful city of Vancouver, BC, for a one-of-a-kind event that brings together Power Platform enthusiasts from across the country and around the world.
ColorCloud
(📅 April 18-19, 2024)
The most colorful Microsoft Business Applications conference is coming to Hamburg in April 2024!
Like artists working with broad color palettes, ColorCloud covers all Business Applications from Microsoft with German and English content.
Microsoft 365 Conference 2024
(📅 April 30 - May 2, 2024)
The Microsoft 365 Conference has become one of the most important in-person gatherings of the Microsoft 365 community anywhere on Earth.
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
Introducing Copilot assistance for filling forms in model-driven apps
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Copilot assistance for filling forms in model-driven apps is a new AI-powered feature that generates suggestions for field completion based on user preferences and data patterns. It simplifies the form filling process, saves time, and improves accuracy.
Deploy a custom copilot to SharePoint, with a seamless single sign-on experience
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 This blog - by Adi Leibowitz - introduces a code sample demonstrating how to deploy a custom copilot to a SharePoint site, enabling a seamless single sign-on experience. It explains the benefits of integrating copilots with SharePoint, provides an overview of how the code sample works, and outlines the steps required to deploy the component on a SharePoint site.
Improvements for creating new Direct Lake semantic models
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Zoe Douglas wrote a blog that outlines the improvements made for creating new custom Direct Lake semantic models in Power BI. Users can now conveniently select the workspace, name the model, and choose tables or views, while also being able to see downstream artifacts created from the Lakehouse or Warehouse.
Announcing preview for blocking unmanaged customizations
👩💻🚀 The preview for blocking unmanaged customizations has been announced by this blog by Swati Madhukar, allowing administrators to prevent unapproved changes in Microsoft Dataverse environments. Enabling this setting blocks the import of unmanaged solutions, customization of existing objects, and creation of new solution objects, ensuring that changes go through approved application lifecycle management processes.
February 2024 update of Power Automate for desktop
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 The February 2024 update of Power Automate for desktop (version 2.41) has been released, introducing new features including Picture-in-Picture run mode and Power Fx support for interpolated strings. Users can now run local attended desktop flows within a virtual window and utilize Power Fx expressions directly in inputted text.
Microsoft Power Up program unveils new curriculum, workshops and simplified Dev environment
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 The Microsoft Power Up program has revamped its curriculum to include engaging video-based content and a condensed seven-week learning experience, allowing non-technical professionals to gain marketable skills in the Microsoft Power Platform. In addition, participants now have access to a comprehensive development environment, as well as the opportunity to attend partner-led virtual workshops for further hands-on learning and practical guidance.
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