Power Platform Weekly - Issue #181
Power Platform Weekly - Issue #181
We're back from Summer Holiday. Release Wave 2 plans are here!
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
We hope all of you who took time off from work had a relaxing holiday and now are looking forward to catch up with what’s new again.
The 2024 Release Wave 2 plans are available, see the wave 2 dedicated chapter.
The Power Apps July 2024 Feature Update is available.
The GA of calling SQL Server procedures in Power Fx has been announced.
New tools are available. The Power Roles Chrome Extension from Ivan Ficko and the Dataverse E-mail checker from Guido Preite.
A new playlist to catch up with, Jonas Rapp and Ambesh Singh highlights tools.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
🆕 2024 Release Wave 2
Microsoft official resources
Official page for Release Plans, official Wave 2 Announcement Blog Post
📺 2024 Release Wave 2 highlights YouTube playlist
Community content
📺 EP 36: Power Platform 2024 release wave 2 by Nick Doelman and Ulrikke Akerbæk
📺 Wave 2 2024 Customer Insights Journey Chat by Megan V. Walker & Amey Holden
📺 Power Platform Wave 2 2024: Top 10 Features and D365 Top 10 by Lisa Crosby
📺 Copilot for Sales and Copilot for Service and D365 Customer Service by Dian Taylor
D365 Part 1 & Part 2. Power Platform part 1 & part 2 & Copilot for Sales by Vivian Voss
Power Platform Release 2024 wave 2 by Wilmer Alcivar
Power Apps news, my top 7 by Edit Capcari
Release wave 2 2024 – Customer Insights – Journeys and CI - Data by Malin Martnes
My Highlights of the D365 Project Operations 2024 Wave 2 by Sebastian Sieber
📰 Articles
The Dynamics 365 Digital Contact Center : What is It?
🦸🏻♀️🤵🏻 Tricia Sinclair has been involved in a few discussions around the newly announced contact center offering by Microsoft, The D365 Contact Center. The questions mainly focus on: What is it? Omnichannel rebranded or a new product? Here she answers this question & explain where this fits in the D365 and M365 world.
Working with Zip Files in Power Automate
🦸🏻♀️ Paul Murana demonstrates a new method for working with Zip files which uses a custom C# connector, to easily create zip files in Power Automate or extract files from them.
Freestyle Drag And Drop PCF
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 In this blog, Diana Birkelbach talks about how to use her new DragAndDrop PCF, and show you some examples about how it can be used. The PCF is using HTML5 Drag&Drop capabilities.
Other articles
👩💻 Power Pages: OKTA as an identity provider & Uploading BIG attachments & DevTools extension by Nick Doelman
🦸🏻♀️ How to integrate D365 Customer Insights Journeys and Data by Pauline Kolde
🦸🏻♀️ Trigger Flow from a Custom Button in Dynamics 365 or Dataverse by Amey Holden
🦸🏻♀️ Power Pages: Migrate data model Part 1 and Part 2 by Olena Grischenko
👩💻 Autoincrementing and Deploying Dataverse Plugin Package by Daryl LaBar
🦸🏻♀️ Agent for HR joiners using Copilot Studio by Ana Inés Urrutia
🦸🏻♀️ Intro to OmniChannel by Kelly Simpson
🦸🏻♀️ Challenge 030 | Custom Prompts by Miguel Verweij
🦸🏻♀️ Sending A Journey Using RSS Feeds In Realtime Marketing by Megan V. Walker
🛠️ SQL 4 CDS v9.2 Released by Mark Carrington
🦸🏻♀️ Ribbon Editor: Hide/Show Buttons, Customize NEW Button by Thomas Sandsør
👩💻 Rich Text to Plain Text conversion inside Power Apps by Guido Preite
🦸🏻♀️ AI Model crushed the game against Austria by Jeroen Scheper
🚀 How To Send Emails From Power Apps by Craig White
🦸🏻♀️ Creating Snake Game In Power Apps by David Wyatt
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
MVP Show Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ Imagine discovering a whole new career path through unexpected turns and community support. That’s exactly what happened to our special guest, Heidi Jordan, an MVP from South Dakota and manager at Avanade. Heidi's journey is inspiring from an aspiring math teacher to a problem-solving business analyst and finally a tech leader in business intelligence and SharePoint. Listen in as she shares the pivotal moment in 2016 when she stumbled upon the Power Platform and how it propelled her into the tech world. Heidi’s anecdotes about her love for cooking, family time, and enduring South Dakota winters add a heartfelt touch to her remarkable story.
Amazing Apps Podcast
🧭 Drawing on the book "Mastering Professional Scrum" by Stephanie Ockerman and Simon Reindl, Neil outlines critical areas for team success, such as creating valuable products and understanding organizational influences. He emphasizes five core capabilities for continuous improvement: teaching, facilitation, coaching, technical excellence, and servant leadership.
📅 Events & Webinars
CollabDays Hamburg
(📅 August 31, 2024)
CollabDays Hamburg 2024 is a premier community-led event bringing together global professionals and enthusiasts to explore the latest in Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Power Platform, and collaboration technologies.
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!
Bizz Summit ES 2024
(📅 October 4-5, 2024)
Bizz Summit ES is here! The international reference event on Microsoft Business Solutions in Spain. Happening in Madrid, Spain early October!
Community Summit NA 2024
(📅 October 13-17, 2024)
Community Summit North America is going to San Antonio, TX! From October 13th to 17th, you can learn all about GP / Dynamics 365 / Power Platform & AI.
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.
Low Code No Code Microsoft Power Platform Conference 2024
(📅 November 9, 2024)
Don’t miss this 24-hour event in November - there are keynotes, live demos, workshops and more! This conference is aimed at developers, IT pros, business analysts, citizen developers, CTOs, and technology leaders. There is content for everyone!
ESPC 2024
(📅 December 2-5, 2024)
ESPC 2024 is coming to Stockholm, Sweden this year. Learn all about Microsoft 365, Azure and Power Platform at this great 3-day conference with over 100 speakers!
💙 Out of the Blue
What’s new in Power Apps: July 2024 Feature Update
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Here’s another feature update for Power Apps. This month This month there are Copilot updates, GA of some key features for makers and a huge set of Learning and Documentation updates!
July 2024 update of Power Automate for desktop
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 The July 2024 update of Power Automate for desktop (version 2.46) introduces exciting features, including a new action to customize Excel cell colors and environment routing support for Power Automate for desktop.
New paginated report authoring experience (Preview)
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Discover the new paginated report authoring experience in the Power BI service, where creating multi-page, well-formatted reports is now easier than ever with a simple drag-and-drop interface.
Power BI July 2024 Feature Summary
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 The Power BI July 2024 update brings exciting enhancements like customizable reference layers in Azure Maps, new DAX query view capabilities, and updated visualizations, promising a more powerful and user-friendly experience.
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