Power Platform Weekly - Issue #170
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event was held. It’s available on-demand. Also see the wave 1 launch dedicated blog post.
The March updates for modernization and theming in Power Apps were presented.
Public Preview of Power Platform environment groups and rules as well as the newest capabilities of environment routing were announced.
What’s new with ALM and Power Platform pipelines? See the highlights in the April ALM blog post.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Environment Grouping » The CRM Ninja
🚀 One of the main ‘complaints’ that Power Platform administrators have is around how policies are applied to environments. Within Azure, it’s possible to set up security policies and apply them in bulk. Well, Microsoft has now made this possible to do in the Power Platform. EY Kalman shows you how.
Tip #1458: How to copy files between Dataverse tables - Power Platform & Dynamics CRM Tip Of The Day
👩💻🦸🏻♀️ Imagine you have two tables, both with a file column and you want to use Power Automate to move the file from TABLE A to the corresponding field on TABLE B. George Doubinski describes why this is not a trivial endeavor and how to do it.
Plugin Action speaks louder then words
🦸🏻♀️ We’ve been building our Copilot Studio topics manually in my example of the HR Copilot. But in this world of generative AI there is another (better?) way. In this post Ben den Blanken shows how to utilize Plugin Actions in Copilot Studio.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Copilot Copilot Copilot – Differences between the Service Copilots by Tricia Sinclair
🦸🏻♀️ Store AI Created Case Summary Data by Neil Parkhurst
🦸🏻♀️ Update the ‘Members and Insights’ segment grid view in Customer Insights - Journeys by Amey Holden
🦸🏻♀️ New Attachment features for Email – Dataverse / Dynamics 365 by Nishant Rana
🦸🏻♀️ Auto Responder Emails For Gated Content In Realtime by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ No More Dynamics 365 For Phones & Tablets From April 2024 by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ How to build a multilingual canvas app using the new AITranslate function by Debajit Dutta
🦸🏻♀️ Associate email to multiple records (preview) by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 Own SVG Icons Applying Modern Theming for Both Low-Code and PCF on the Same Page by Diana Birkelbach
🦸🏻♀️🛠️ Creating a toast notification framework in Dynamics 365 using in-app notifications by Ty Corcoran
🦸🏻♀️ Power Automate - Objects by David Wyatt
🦸🏻♀️ Adventures with Dataverse: Fun with Business Units and Access Teams by Matt Ruma
🦸🏻♀️ Excel and Power Automate: How to Combine Multiple Excel Rows into a Single Email for Each Recipient by Ellis Karim
🚀 I’ve Installed The CoE Starter Kit… Now What? by Craig White, Michael Roth, and Lindsay Sheltoni
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
The Copilot Studio Podcast
🧭 Tom Arbuthnot, a Microsoft MVP and founder of Empowering Cloud, discusses the use of AI copilot in Microsoft Teams and other applications.
He emphasizes the importance of training and understanding different use cases for copilot to be effective. Tom also highlights the need for users to consciously change their habits and expectations when using AI tools. He shares his personal experiences with copilot, including using it to catch up with his team and summarize meetings. Tom also discusses the benefits of AI in content generation and the challenges of teaching AI style and tone.
Amazing Apps Podcast
🤵🏻 In this episode of Amazing Apps, host Neil Benson explores the importance of rethinking our approach to building business applications. Join us as we delve into the benefits of questioning our assumptions and adapting to new information in the dynamic landscape of app development.
XRM Toolcast Podcast
👩💻 Daryl and Scott talk to Ulrikke Akerbæk, a fellow BizApps MVP and Cohost of the Power Platform BOOST Podcast about her experiences working with Power Pages.
📅 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
Increase efficiency with Microsoft Power Platform governance features
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Ken Auguillard introduces the public preview of Microsoft Power Platform environment groups and rules, which aim to streamline governance and increase efficiency in managing multiple environments. These features allow administrators to establish customizable rules, ensure consistency across environments, and automate processes, ultimately simplifying administration and improving developer efficiency.
April 2024 ALM blog: What’s new and what it means for you
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Casey Burke discusses the new capabilities and updates in enterprise ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) for Power Platform. Casey highlights features such as delegated deployments, multi-geo support, improved solution management, and the benefits of using pipelines for deployments.
March 2024 updates for modernization and theming in Power Apps
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Noa Zarur introduces the highly requested feature of simple custom theming, allowing users to create their own themes with a seed color and font. Additionally, a preview of the new Stream control has been released, enabling the seamless integration of Microsoft Stream videos into canvas apps.
Power Fx: Column names escape double quotes
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Greg Lindhorst announces a syntax change in Power Fx where column names no longer need to be wrapped in double quotes in function arguments, making them consistent with other uses of column names. Existing apps will be automatically updated to reflect the new syntax, and the change allows for the use of display names and eliminates the need for logical names.
Introducing Salesforce virtual table support for Power Pages (Preview)
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Petri Simolin introduces the new Salesforce virtual table data provider for Microsoft Power Pages, which seamlessly integrates data from Salesforce objects into the Power Pages website without data replication. It emphasizes the ability to surface and manage Salesforce data on Power Pages, highlighting common scenarios like web-to-lead and self-service support case management.
Supporting continuous Slide Shows in Power BI Storytelling add-in
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Maya Shenhav introduces the new feature in the Power BI Storytelling add-in that allows for continuous slide shows. It explains how this feature ensures that the data in the add-in remains up-to-date without manual intervention, providing organizations with an easy way to share performance reports.
Introducing Copilot Pane in Power BI Desktop (preview)
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Harleen Kaur announces the Copilot Pane in Power BI Desktop, which is now available for preview in the April version of the software. Copilot is a feature that helps users create reports faster and easier by providing a summary of data in the Power BI semantic model and suggesting content for reports based on the data.
Power BI April 2024 Feature Summary
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Saveen Reddy blogs about the April 2024 feature summary with new features and enhancements, including line chart improvements, dynamic subscriptions, and the ability to enhance Q&A with Copilot-generated linguistic relationships. The update also highlights new visuals and storytelling capabilities in PowerPoint, as well as the availability of the Fabric metadata scanning sample app.
Deliver report Subscriptions to OneDrive and SharePoint (Preview)
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Nirupama Srinivasan blogs about the new feature of delivering Power BI and paginated report subscriptions to OneDrive or SharePoint, allowing users to schedule and send full report attachments to these locations. It also mentions the licensing requirements and provides a step-by-step guide on how to set up a subscription to OneDrive/SharePoint.
2024 release wave 1 kicks off with hundreds of AI-powered capabilities for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 The 2024 release wave 1 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform introduces new features and enhancements that aim to transform business processes and empower employees. These updates include role-based extensions of Microsoft Copilot, which utilize natural language processing and AI-generated insights to streamline tasks and improve productivity.
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📅 Events & Webinars
Among conferences you missed one. Baltic Summit which take place 13-14 of April in Gdynia, Poland.
Here are more details www.balticsummit.pl