Power Platform Weekly - Issue #164
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Power Apps February feature update was presented.
The Public Preview of calling SQL Server stored procedures directly in Power Fx was announced.
The General Availability of Shared Device Mode for Power Apps on iOS was announced.
The latest Copilot for Sales news was highlighted, check Amira Beldjilali’s post.
Hats off for CRM Power Platform Tip of the Day for being back with new tips! 🎩🙌
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Donkey Kong Koders – Final Deliery
🦸🏻♀️ The team Donkey Kong Koders participated in ACDC - a hackathon. They built a solution that allows an organization to gamify learning. The questions and validation of the answers is entirely backed by AI.
Text-to-Speech and Audio Playback in Power Apps using Azure and Power Automate
🦸🏻♀️ Capabilities like text-to-speech (TTS) and audio playback can take your applications to new heights of user engagement and accessibility. In this blog post, Mohamed Ashiq Faleel looks at integrating text-to-speech and audio playback functionalities into Power Apps.
Follow Microsoft to trigger plugins by Bulk Operations by Jonas Rapp
👩💻 Microsoft has recently urged us to move all our plugin steps from messages: Create, Update, Delete to instead use: CreateMultiple, UpdateMultiple, and DeleteMultiple. Jonas Rapp explains why you need to do this.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Run SQL Server Stored Procedures in Power Apps: New Feature in 2024 by Pieter Veenstra
🦸🏻♀️ Block unmanaged customizations (preview) – Dataverse / Dynamics 365 by Nishant Rana
🦸🏻♀️ Risk Assessments on Projects using Copilot in Project Operations by Priyesh Wagh
🦸🏻♀️ Using Google Tag Manager For Your Realtime Marketing Forms by Megan V. Walker
👩💻 Create multilingual copilots with the Power Platform CLI and Microsoft Copilot Studio by Daniel Laskewitz
🦸🏻♀️ Challenge 026 | Pipelines in Managed Environments by Miguel Verweij
🦸🏻♀️ Power Apps - VBA Subs and Functions by David Wyatt
👩💻 How get your location in a Model-Driven App by Joe Gill
🦸🏻♀️ Leverage the Power Platform API to create a Capacity Report by Allan De Castro
🦸🏻♀️ New feature for canvas app: Optimize screen for devices (preview) by Mónica Andrea Pérez
👩💻 Performance Benchmark Create Related Entity via a chain of Create vs RelatedEntities property by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Microsoft Mechanics Podcast
🚀 For enterprise-grade architecture, data privacy, and control, build your own private ChatGPT-style app using OpenAI GPT models with the Azure AI services. You can start with open-source samples for design and the user interface along with Azure containers or Azure App Service, then customize what it can do with Azure AI Studio. Importantly, to ensure it’s enterprise-ready with the right security and scale considerations in place, Azure Landing Zones provide the architectural best practices for apps like this. Landing Zone Accelerators simplify deployment for dedicated app-level subscriptions, scoped security, and broader policies. Layering these recommendations and approaches helps ensure that your ChatGPT-style private app meets enterprise requirements.
Knee-Deep in Tech Podcast
👩💻 In this episode, Simon and Alexander discuss the deluge of news from Power BI and Fabric, look at what is new in Microsoft Intune, and what is happening to EUC assets from VMWare.
Run-As Radio Podcast
🚀 How are we going to manage the use of M365 Copilot? Richard chats with Martina Grom about her experiences helping organizations prepare for M365 Copilot. Martina talks about getting your data estate in shape - and the challenge that represents in terms of identifying what data should be available within an organization. The conversation also digs into the larger picture of the Microsoft Graph - all the information about how people interact on M365, the resources they create and use, and the potential the Graph offers to help with productivity. It's still early days, but it's never too early to work hard on ensuring we have the right governance in place to allow Copilot to help the company succeed!
📅 Events & Webinars
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.
Power Platform 24 Conference March 2024
(📅 March 20, 2024)
Join Power Platform enthusiasts from around the world for a full day of sessions about Microsoft Business Applications. No matter where you are in the world, this is in your time-zone. Times listed by each session are in your user local time as set by your browser or machine settings.
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
What’s new: Power Apps February 2024 Feature Update
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Clay Wesener sums up another month of feature updates in this month’s feature update! Make sure to check it out!
Call SQL Server stored procedures directly in Power Fx (Preview)
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 A much-requested feature has arrived in preview this week! Lance Delano announced the preview of calling SQL Server stored procedures directly in Power Fx. No cloud flow needed for that anymore!
Introducing Public Preview Copilot for Power BI chat-based capabilities: summarize, inquire, analyze
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Big news from the Power BI front! There is a new Copilot for Power BI that is now in public preview! Check out all the details in this blog by Carly Newsome!
Use Code Explain feature to understand existing code using Copilot in Power Pages for Visual Studio Code
👩💻🚀 Neeraj Nandwana shows in this post how you can use code explain to understand existing Power Pages code in VS Code. Great to see these Copilot features show up in VS Code as well!
Announcing General Availability for Shared Device Mode for Power Apps on iOS
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Shared Device Mode is now Generally Available! Arijit Basu writes about this feature that’s very handy for front line workers!
Improvements to Power BI apps, an increase in audiences and access control for hidden content
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 A lot of new updates to Power BI Apps! Read all about it in this blog by Dustin Askins!
Announcing the retirement of legacy Power BI Apps (pre-audiences)
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Legacy Power BI Apps will be retired from May 1st onwards! Make sure to read in the blog on how to upgrade so that you won’t be affected!
Announcing the deprecation of creation of machine learning models in Power BI using Dataflows V1
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Another deprecation for Power BI. Now it’s the creation of ML models in Power BI using Dataflows V1. Learn more by reading the blog!
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