Power Platform Weekly - Issue #188
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week was a huge week for the Fabric/Power BI people! The first edition of the European Fabric Conference was held in Stockholm, the official blogs had lot’s of content, see the Out of the Blue section.
Preview of AI Summary for Power Pages List was announced and what’s new in Copilot for Sales - September was highlighted.
In case you’ve missed it, there is a Power Platform Copilot Challenge available, created by Microsoft, check it out.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Power Platform’s protection — Virtual Network integration
👩💻🚀 Raphaël Pothin is back to explore the recently added or still pretty new capabilities that promise to help bolster our security posture around Power Platform solutions.
Using the Coalesce Function In Power Apps
🦸🏻♀️ Coalesce is a function Craig White regularly uses now in Power Apps, but it does seem to slip under the radar. There are lots of good use cases for using it that will streamline your Power Fx logic.
Customer Service Workspace – Multiple Browsers
🦸🏻♀️ Have you tried loading Microsoft’s Customer Service Workspace in multiple browsers? If you are working with Dynamics 365 Contact Center and haven’t tried recently you might want to experiment with it!
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Using custom AI Prompts to build better relationships by Jeroen Scheper
🦸🏻♀️ Create Segments From Marketing Lists In Realtime Marketing by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️🚀 Power Platform Pipelines - Delegated Deployment Architectural Pattern for Connections with oAuth by Matt Collins-Jones
🦸🏻♀️ Making a Power App that makes Flows by David Wyatt
🦸🏻♀️ Unified Routing – Queue Priority by Neil Parkhurst
🦸🏻♀️ Converting Dates to Excel’s Numeric Format: Which Power Automate Formula Actually Worked? by Ellis Karim
👩💻 ExecuteMultipleRequest vs CreateMultipleRequest Benchmark by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Team Copilot Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ In this episode, we dive into Microsoft 365 Copilot with expert insights from Femke Cornelissen, Chief Copilot at Wortell. Drawing from her comprehensive e-book, Femke unpacks the power of prompts and how they can revolutionize the way we work within Microsoft 365 apps. Learn how to boost your efficiency and creativity through automation, data analysis, communication, and project management, with real-world tips and expert interviews. We also explore Microsoft Loop, an innovative collaboration tool, and discuss how Copilot is transforming workplace productivity. Tune in for practical tips and fresh ideas that will inspire you to maximize the potential of Microsoft 365 Copilot in your day-to-day tasks.
Journey to D365 Podcast
👩💻 In our final episode of Season 1, I speak with Pirmin Bircher, a renowned digital transformation author and consultant, who shares his wealth of experience from countless successful D365 implementations. He’s also the author of the book 99 Tips for Successful D365 Implementations. Pirmin brings incredible insights from helping clients through their D365 journeys.
We’ll also explore the growing prominence of low-code development platforms (LCDPs) in Europe.
Women in Power Podcast
🧭 Join Danielle in learning more about Brittany Sullivan! She is leading the charge of helping us build a Regional presence and we are thrilled to have her as part of the Women in Power community!
📅 Events & Webinars
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.
Directions EMEA 2024
(📅 November 6-8, 2024)
Directions EMEA is the "Go To" place where Dynamics partners share the future. It's the preferred global community for collaborating and learning from Microsoft, MVPs, and ISVs.
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!
Ignite 2024
(📅 November 19-22, 2024)
Ignite returns to Chicago! The first edition of Ignite was in Chicago and now the first edition after COVID that’s not in Seattle is there as well! This hybrid event is one of the flagship events from Microsoft and promises to bring the latest updates!
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
Introducing AI Summary for Power Pages List (preview)
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this blog by Neeraj Nandwana, the AI summary feature for Power Pages list is announced. This feature will visualize the data in charts & summarize the data in a short summary so that you can quickly see all the details about the data!
Accelerate web application development and ROI with Microsoft Power Pages
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this new Forrester Total Economic Impact study, you can read all about how Microsoft Power Pages can help you to develop secure, data-driven business websites quickly and affordably.
Announcement: Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies have been extended to Fabric lakehouses
👩💻🚀 In this blog, Yael Biss announces that extending Microsoft Purview’s Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies into Fabric lakehouses is now in public preview! Make sure to check out the blog for more info!
Power BI Report Server September 2024 Feature Summary
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Nirupama Srinivasan takes care of the feature summary of Power BI Report Server for September 2024! If you want to catch up with the latest updates, this blog is for you!
Exciting New Enhancements Announced for Fabric Data Pipelines
👩💻🚀 Shireen Bahadur announces new enhancements for Fabric Data Pipelines, like for instance invoke remote pipeline, function activity – support for Fabric user data functions & Spark job environment parameters.
By Popular Demand: Dark mode is now available in Power BI Desktop!
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Harleen Kaur announces one of the most requested features for Power BI Desktop: Dark mode!
Enhanced Report Creation in the Power BI Service with Copilot (Public Preview)
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this blog, Anita Ambalavanan highlights the new addictions for creating reports with Copilot. The following improvements have been added:
Work with Copilot to clarify intent and details of reports created.
Report outlines to improve transparency are what data fields are being used.
Connect your data to the real world with the power of NFC and the Power BI Mobile Apps
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 It’s now possible to register an NFC tag with Power BI items in the Power BI Mobile Apps! This means you can for instance have an NFC tag on a device so that workers can scan the NFC tag and immediately access a report with device performance data. Make sure to read this cool blog by Maya Ben Dov!
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