Power Platform Weekly - Issue #167
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Private Preview of the Security Hub was announced.
The Public Preview of virtual network support for Power Platform Dataverse plug-ins and Connectors was announced.
IP firewall in Power Platform environments was announced as General Available.
The Copilot for Sales March release was highlighted.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Universal Search for Solution Source Files
🦸🏻♀️ If you’ve used Universal Search in the XrmToolBox in the past you know that you can perform powerful wildcard searches in Dataverse across Tables and Metadata. However, some components aren’t searchable, like plugin assemblies. Now Michael Ochs has made that possible.
Block Unmanaged Customizations – The Bad News
🚀 Parvez Ghumra wrapped up his first post on this subject by teasing that there are some unexpected implications of enabling this feature. The purpose of this post is to dive into the detail of these.
FetchXML improve for us to achieve more
🦸🏻♀️ Jonas Rapp shows a well hidden gem in FetchXML that allows you to solve the following wish: I need to set owners on accounts with a team with the same name as the account.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Rich Media Response says more then a 1000 words by Ben den Blanken
🚀 View and Manage your AI Builder Consumption Report by Inogic
🦸🏻♀️ Power Pages custom domain and RRset conflict error by Andrew Grischenko
🦸🏻♀️ Part 5: More Use Cases with the AI Builder in Customer Insights Journeys by Pauline Kolde
🦸🏻♀️ Compliance Profiles : The Basics by Kelly Simpson
🦸🏻♀️ Use Monitor to debug Model-driven apps remotely by Priyesh Wagh
🚀 Power Platform for Admins: create Dataverse with Dynamics 365 apps enabled by Olena Grischenko
🚀 Creating Service Principals really easily using PAC CLI by Carl de Souza
🦸🏻♀️ Why design patterns are important - Even in Low-Code? by David Uhlmann
🦸🏻♀️ AI Prompts with AI Builder by Ana Inés Urrutia
🦸🏻♀️ Power Automate: Remove Characters From A String by Matthew Devaney
🦸🏻♀️ Error Handling in Power Automate for the Business User by Ed Gonzales
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Low-Code Approach Podcast
👩💻 In this amazing episode, Ryan Cunningham, VP, Power Apps joins Ken, Wendy, and Sean to discuss the current status and future of Microsoft Power Apps. Learn how Power Platform solution developers can integrate Microsoft Copilot in their applications, in Power Platform with extensibility, and the effect Copilot will have on their careers. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in how Copilot fits into the Microsoft Power Platform.
Power Platform Boost Podcast
🤵🏻 Not a lot of news and updates this time, because this week, we have been busy at MVP Summit in Seattle, and then this weekend we traveled to Vancouver for the Canadian Power Platform Summit. That's two summits in a row! Join us from the AV studio at Microsoft's offices in Vancouver as we chat about the #MVPbuzz of the week that we have had and why we think it's valuable to go to the MVP summit. We also recap the Canadian Power Platform Summit and share our experience with the first of many # CPPSs to come.
Dynamics Corner Podcast
🧭 In this conversation, Brad and Kristoffer speak with Doher Drizzle Pablo, a solution architect and Microsoft Learn expert. They discuss the impact of the negative bias of social media and the importance of focusing on meaningful use. Drizzle shares her background and journey in the Dynamics 365 community, including her experience with Dynamics 365 outside the US. She also provides insights on starting with Dynamics 365 and the role of Microsoft Learn experts. The conversation concludes with discussing about finding clients through LinkedIn and working across different time zones. Additionally, Drizzle discusses the process of starting a user group and community and the upcoming technology conference she is organizing in the Philippines.
📅 Events & Webinars
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.
Microsoft Power Platform Conference 2024
(📅 September 18-20, 2024)
Be inspired by Microsoft senior thought leaders, the product experts, and engineers behind the Power Platform. You’ll also learn from Microsoft MVPs who are dedicated to bridging the gap between humanity and technology. MPPC is the perfect place to connect with folks from around the world who are eager to share their insights and knowledge on how the Power Platform & Dynamics 365 can transform your business.
Scottish Summit 2024
(📅 October 18-19, 2024)
Scottish Summit 2024 is coming to you from P&J Live, Aberdeen's state-of-the-art event complex. This is going to be the biggest Scottish Summit to date, spanning 3 days. The Scottish Summit 2024 is gearing up to be the Fall spotlight of the Microsoft community calendar! It will have an exhilarating three days packed with over 100 sessions, workshops, and panel discussions that will leave you briming with knowledge and inspiration.
💙 Out of the Blue
Announcing public preview of virtual network support for Power Platform Dataverse plug-ins and Connectors
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Ritesh Pandey announces the public preview of virtual network support for Power Platform, specifically for Dataverse plug-ins and connectors. This feature allows customers to securely protect their outbound connections from Power Platform services to resources within their private network, enhancing data security and compliance.
Pipelines for All Public Preview: Easily set up pipelines in Power Platform
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 This blog by Anthony Sheehi announces the release of Pipelines for All, a simplified setup process that allows users to easily deploy solutions across environments. With this new feature, users can quickly create pipelines, leverage its benefits, and gradually transition to a central governed pipeline.
Announcing General Availability of built-in Dataverse offline for canvas apps
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Tristan Dehove announces the General Availability of mobile offline support for canvas apps on iOS, Android, and Windows devices. It explains how developers can easily enable offline functionality for their canvas apps using standard Power Fx formulas, allowing users to work with Dataverse data even without a network connection.
Introducing the modern list for Power Pages
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Ranjan Kumar introduces the modern list feature in the Power Pages site, which offers a refreshed visual appearance and improved performance compared to the classic list. It explains the benefits of the modern list, such as intuitive user experience, better loading time, infinite scroll, and low code styling capabilities.
Protect enterprise solutions with new Microsoft Power Platform security features
🚀 New Power Platform security features have been announced by Nirav Shah to help organizations protect their enterprise data and leverage AI capabilities. These features include a Security Hub for managing security at scale, advanced data exfiltration protection, integration with Microsoft Sentinel for comprehensive security operations, and more.
Control Access to Dataverse with IP Firewall: Secure Your Data with Ease
👩💻🚀 Ritesh Pandey had a busy week, because apart from the VNET announcement, he also announces the general availability of the IP firewall feature for Power Platform environments, which allows administrators to control access to Dataverse and implement stricter security measures. By configuring IP restrictions, organizations can mitigate the risks of data exfiltration and token replay attacks, ensuring the security and protection of their organizational data.
Building your own copilot with Copilot Studio
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Richard Riley uses this blog introduces Microsoft Copilot Studio, a conversational AI platform that allows users to customize and build their own copilot. It explains how to use Copilot Studio to create intelligent chat experiences, tailor the copilot to specific needs, and integrate with various data sources and connectors.
Copilot Updates March 2024
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 This month's Copilot updates include support for Apps, improvements to geography support, availability of usage and billing features, and upcoming enhancements to abuse monitoring. Users can now ask questions and gain insights within the Copilot Pane while browsing Power BI Apps, and data will remain within the EU boundary for users with Premium or Fabric capacity in the EU.
On-premises data gateway March 2024 release
👩💻🚀 The on-premises data gateway March 2024 release (version 3000.214.8) is now available, ensuring compatibility with the March 2024 release of Power BI Desktop. This update also introduces support for Azure Service Principal (SPN) authentication for on-premises and VNET data gateway connections, providing a secure way to access data sources without a user identity.
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