Power Platform Weekly - Issue #172
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Public Preview of the SAP OData connector was announced.
Curious about fusion development and ALM? Take a look at this new video from Marc Schweigert, Hello fusion development with Power Platform. There’s also a sample repo available.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Improved e-mail attachment experience in D365 Customer Service
🦸🏻♀️ Here is another set of features that snuck into Dynamics 365 Customer Service without Dian Taylor noticing! At least, she didn’t notice until she opened an email message in Dynamics 365 Customer Service.
Managing The Default Environment
🚀 “How can I get users out of the Default environment?” This is a key question to ask, especially if makers have already built and shared lots of apps from here. It’s also important for crafting an effective environment strategy for your Power Platform solutions. Craig White and Michael Roth guide you through it.
Lists in emails in Customer Insights – Journeys
🦸🏻♀️ As long as things are registered in Dataverse, you can create a list and add it to an email. This post by Malin Martnes will show you how this is done and how it’ll work.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Send Unique Event Registration Response With QR Code by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Recalculate Datevrse rollup columns in Power Automate by Amey Holden
🦸🏻♀️ Versioning and Drafts for Solution-based Cloud Flows – Power Automate by Nishant Rana
🛠️ Spring Was Canceled Release 1.2024.4 by Jonas Rapp
🦸🏻♀️🛠️ Dataverse – ERD by Joe Gill
🦸🏻♀️ Being Sustainable on the Power Platform by David Wyatt
🦸🏻♀️ Omnichannel for Customer Service – Call Quality Surveys by Neil Parkhurst
🦸🏻♀️ Adventures with Dataverse: Trouble with Formula Columns by Matt Ruma
🚀 Power Platform | Known Issues by Carsten Groth
🦸🏻♀️ Workflows - infusing classic ingredients into your Power Platform recipe by Anna Black
🦸🏻♀️ What is Finance Insights?, How do I configure it? by Mónica Andrea Pérez
🦸🏻♀️ Power Pages: Convert standard to enhanced data model by Nick Doelmann
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
M365 Voice Podcast
🧭 This is the first episode of a series about Microsoft Copilot, where we explain how Copilot works, how it behaves, and how to get your organization ready for it. We talk about Microsoft’s responsible AI framework and its principles for making and using AI technologies. We also talk about why organizations need a code of ethics or an acceptable use policy for generative AI tools, and we give some examples of the risks and challenges of using generative AI tools with sensitive or regulated data, like healthcare or financial data.
Low-Code Approach Podcast
🚀 Yup, the title gives this one away. Mansi Malik, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, comes on the podcast to teach Ken, Sean, and Wendy about the Known Issues feature for Power Platform admins. Learn more about how Microsoft communicates what issues are known with the platform and how they are working on a fix, estimated time to fix, and potential workarounds if needed. Check it out in the Known Issues tab in the Power Platform admin center.
BIFocal Podcast
👩💻 John & Jason talk about the Power BI March 2024 Feature Summary including on-object interactions update, Power Query in Paginated Reports, DAX Query View updates with Copilot, enhancements to model editing in the service, and more.
📅 Events & Webinars
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.
Baltic Summit 2024
(📅 September 13-14, 2024)
Baltic Summit is a remarkable event organized by the vibrant community of Microsoft enthusiasts, with a special focus on Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft Business Applications.
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.
Nordic Summit 2024
(📅 September 28, 2024)
The Nordic Summit is the biggest and only in-person conference in the Nordics focused exclusively on Microsoft’s Power Platform and Dynamics 365. This year the Nordic Summit is coming to the beautiful capital of Norway… Oslo!
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
Introducing public preview of the SAP OData connector
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 The SAP OData connector is now in public preview! In this blog by Zankar Desai, you can read about all the benefits of having this connector. For instance, with this connector, you don’t have to install the SAP .Net Connector. Which is the case with the SAP ERP Connector. More information on how to get started with the connector is available in the blog post!
Summarize documents into FAQ Web Pages using Power Pages Design Studio Copilot
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 A really cool new feature is announced this week by Dileep Singh! He shows how to summarize documents from SharePoint and OneDrive for business with the Power Pages design studio Copilot. It enables you to create an FAQ page by entering a link to a document in the Copilot. Read more in the blog!
Microsoft Power Apps named a No-Code/Low-Code Market Leader by Omdia
🤵🏻🧭 In this blog, Marek Lutz announces that Omdia named Power Apps a no-code/low-code market leader. In this blog, he writes about why they made that decision, and you can, of course, download the report.
Deprecation of AutoML in Power BI using Dataflows V1
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Ancy Philip announces the depracation of creation of Power BI Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) models for Dataflows V1. The path forward is migrating your solution to the AutoML solution based on Synapse Data Science in Microsoft Fabric, which is now in preview!
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