Power Platform Weekly - Issue #168
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
It’s April and that means the start of the 2024 Release Wave 1 roll out. See the deployment schedule to find out when it’s coming to your region. Register for the launch event via the blog.
Last week it was announced that starting in April the modern look and feel for model-driven apps will be on by default.
The Public Preview of Database Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric was announced.
The Power BI March 2024 Feature Summary was highlighted.
The possibility to redeploy past solution versions with pipelines was announced.
Improvements working with solution dependencies for objects were presented.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Here goes an unusual combination of old and new technologies, sprinkled with a bunch of howto-s
🦸🏻♀️ Alex Shlega has been working on a project where, as usual, there is a need for document templates. However, the templates are relatively complex, so classic document templates in Dataverse are just not good enough. Read this in-depth multi-part guide to learn how he did it.
A Guide to Power Platform Tenant Settings
🚀🦸🏻♀️ Power Platform tenant settings in PPAC are important for any administrator to know and understand. Microsoft often add or update these settings, so they’re critical to your ongoing governance. Craig White’s and Michael Roth’s experience, few are aware of this area in PPAC, let alone what settings are available for you to enable. In this article they go over the key settings you need to consider for your Power Platform tenant.
How To Use Copilot In Power BI?
🦸🏻♀️ Copilot, the generative AI assistant, has made its way into Power BI, revolutionizing the way users create reports, write DAX measures, and explore data. In this detailed article, Mohamed El-Qassas explores how to enable Copilot in Power BI, understand its capabilities, and leverage it effectively within Power BI Desktop.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Refreshed look of solution dependencies in Dataverse Solutions by Arun Potti
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 Environment vs. Source code centric ALM approach by Benedikt Bergmann
🦸🏻♀️ Real-time marketing segments for Quotes and Quote Products in Dynamics 365 Marketing by Amey Holden
🦸🏻♀️ Access To Manage Consent From Lead And Contact Records by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Maximizing User Engagement with Adaptive Cards in Microsoft Copilot Studio by Inogic
🦸🏻♀️ Tip #1451: Aggregates in Power Automate by George Doubinski
🦸🏻♀️ Tip #1452: Compare dates in Power Automate by George Doubinski
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 Tip #1453: Open the tools like a pro by George Doubinski
🦸🏻♀️ Audit Logs – Synapse Link for Dataverse by Joe Gill
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 Unlocking Snowflake Data Integration in Power Platform: Using Custom Connector with Snowflake REST API – Part 1 by Mohamed Ashiq Faleel
🦸🏻♀️ Map Your Way to Success: A Real Estate App with Power Apps and SharePoint by Jamie López
🦸🏻♀️ First look on: Resource Recommendations for your Project Team - and the Setup by Sebastian Sieber
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Microsoft Mechanics Podcast
🚀 A unified solution for comprehensive data protection with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Purview. Extend the security measures of Microsoft 365 to your schematized data, ensuring consistent protection across your entire data estate. From detecting insider risks to mitigating data loss and unauthorized sharing, leverage advanced visibility and control to safeguard sensitive information effectively.
Daniel Hidalgo, Microsoft Purview Product Manager, shares how to simplify your security strategy and gain deeper insights into data risks.
Run As Radio Podcast
👩💻 What can GitHub do for you? While at NDC London, Richard chatted with April Edwards about how GitHub can help sysadmins - and everyone in your organization! In the end, GitHub is an engine for managing work, with GitHub Actions kicking off workflows that can send messages, run all sorts of code, activate scripts, and more. Ultimately, you get a good report of what happened - or didn't happen. And over time, those scripts can mature to be more reliable and detailed - and keep a record of every change.
Tech Directions Podcast
🧭 The world is on a quest to become more sustainable – but what does that mean in practice? How could advances in artificial intelligence help achieve environmental goals?
Susannah Streeter welcomes Ben Taylor, EY Market Leader for Climate Change and Sustainability Services, and Mark Kroese, General Manager of the Sustainability Solutions team at Microsoft to discuss the latest generative AI approaches, methodologies, pitfalls, and use cases.
📅 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
A year of Microsoft Copilot: Accelerating innovation with AI-powered low-code
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In the past year, Microsoft has introduced Microsoft Copilot, an AI-powered tool that integrates with Microsoft Power Platform to revolutionize the creation of apps, webpages, workflows, and custom copilots. With Copilot, organizations can accelerate development, improve user experience, and unlock the value of their data. In this blog, Richard Riley gives you an overview of what’s possible!
Redeploy past solution versions using pipelines
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Antony Sheehi introduced the new redeploy experience in Power Platform Pipelines, which allows users to roll back to previous solution versions in a production environment. The feature provides control to pipeline owners, confirmation and warning messages, enabling seamless application lifecycle management practices.
Power BI March 2024 Feature Summary
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 The March 2024 update of Power BI brings a range of new features, including the ability to add and edit visual calculations on the service, enhance on-object interaction with new options for visual suggestions and formatting, generate mobile-optimized layouts with a click of a button, expand spatial data integration with support for Shapefile format in Azure Maps Visual, and much more!
Working with solution dependencies for objects made easier
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Swati Madhukar introduces the refreshed look of solution dependencies for solution objects, highlighting the new improvements such as organized tabs, essential actions, and grouping dependencies by solution. These enhancements aim to make it easier to understand, inspect, and take action on the dependencies between solution objects in order to avoid breaking dependent applications and features.
Modern, refreshed look and feel for model-driven apps on by default
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Starting in April with the 2024 Release Wave 1, the modern, refreshed look for model-driven apps will be the default setting as announced by Christopher Moncayo in this blog. This rollout will be done gradually to address any feedback and users will have the option to switch to always on or turn off the modern look themselves.
Announcing the Public Preview of Database Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Charles Webb announces the public preview of Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric, allowing users to seamlessly bring their databases into OneLake and access real-time data insights. Mirroring simplifies the process of accessing and ingesting data into Fabric, eliminating complex processes and enabling users to unify and govern their data estate.
Get data with Power Query available in Power BI Report Builder (Preview)
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 This blog by Nirupama Srinivasan announces the preview of using Power Query in Power BI Report Builder to connect to over 100 data sources and create paginated reports. It provides step-by-step instructions on how to get data, transform it using the Power Query editor, and create a paginated report, as well as limitations and next steps.
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