Power Platform Weekly - Issue #189
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Power Apps September Feature Update was presented. New Dataverse features were highlighted. The Data Factory announcements at Fabric Community Conference Europe were summarized.
Have you seen the Power Platform Master Series? You can watch previous sessions & download slides, e.g. from a review of the Power Platform Community Conference.
We have spotted two new newsletters, both Microsoft Copilot related. Age of Copilots from Sriram Balaji and Copilot Studio Newsletter from Bülent Altinsoy.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Populate SharePoint List mulitiple choice column with Microsoft 365 Groups-and add some List formatting
🦸🏻♀️ Recently, a customer asked Luise Freese if she could automagically populate Microsoft 365 Group Names to a multiple choice column in a SharePoint list. So, she built a simple Power Automate flow that would populate the choice column and apply some nice list formatting to it.
Power Platform’s protection — Managed Identity for Dataverse plug-ins
👩💻 No one likes managing credentials. From keeping them safe to rotating them frequently, it is often a time-consuming activity. Enter Managed Identity for Dataverse plug-ins, a capability that helps eliminate these challenges. Raphaël Pothin shows how to use them.
How to work with Connection References
🦸🏻♀️ Benedikt Bergmann still often gets asked how one can properly work with connection references since a few problems always occur. In this post, he explains everything you need to know about how to work with connection references in the area of Power Automate cloud flows.
Other articles
👩💻🦸🏻♀️ Make the Formula Bar Great Again! by Daryl LaBar
🦸🏻♀️ Omnichannel & Agent Presence by Kelly Simpson
🦸🏻♀️ Power Platform Community Conference Top Announcements by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️ Leverage AI builder language models to collaborate easier by Jeroen Scheper
🦸🏻♀️ Error in Customer Insights - Data by EY Kalman
🦸🏻♀️ What Not to Do in Power Apps by David Wyatt
🦸🏻♀️ The different flavours of a D365/Power Platform fit-gap analysis by Anna Black
🦸🏻♀️ Why Are My SharePoint Dates Wrong in Power Apps and Power Automate? by Ellis Karim
👩💻 Dataverse: When to choose between ExecuteMultipleRequest vs Bulk Operation Messages by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
🦸🏻♀️ Power Automate Emails-D365 Approvals by Angeliki Patsiavou
🛠️ Hastings #1066 Release 1.2024.10 by Jonas Rapp
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Awkward Silence Podcast
🧭 Join us as we dive into questions from Ashley’s session from Power Platform Community Conference that she presented with Neil Benson entitled From Backlog to Brilliant: Transform Your Power Platform Development. The questions allow Ashley and Ed to discuss key insights on Agile methodologies. We explore how Copilot and generative AI can streamline workflow and backlog management, offering practical advice for handling multiple projects in Azure DevOps. Learn how to foster innovation while balancing governance in the Power Platform with the COE Starter Kit. Additionally, discover the best practices for developer specialization and hear humorous anecdotes about tech terminology. This episode is packed with valuable tips and witty banter, perfect for tech enthusiasts and professionals navigating the evolving tech landscape.
Low-Code Approach
👩💻 Jeremy Thake joins the LCA crew to talk about extensibility in Microsoft Copilot. What does this mean for pro code developers using Visual Studio Code and makers using Microsoft Copilot Studio? What is the difference with Graph connectors and how do they extend knowledge and agents? And with so many options for extensibility with agents, who is the owner of ensuring security of that data?
Azure & DevOps Podcast
🧭 Jeff is the co-creator of Scrum and a leading expert on how the framework has evolved to meet the needs of today’s business. The framework he developed in 1993 and formalized in 1995 with Ken Schwaber has since been adopted by the vast majority of software development companies around the world. However, Jeff realized that the benefits of Scrum are not limited to software and product development. He has adapted this successful strategy for several other industries, including finance, healthcare, higher education, and telecom.
As the CEO of Scrum Inc., Jeff sets the vision for success with Scrum. He continues to share best practices with organizations around the globe and has written extensively on Scrum rules and methods. With a deep understanding of business processes — gleaned from years as CTO/CEO of eleven different software companies — Jeff is able to describe the high-level organizational benefits of Scrum and what it takes to create hyper-productive teams.
📅 Events & Webinars
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
What’s new in Power Apps: September 2024 Feature Update
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Clay Wesener is back with the feature update blog for September 2024! Check out the blog for catching up on all the updates for Power Apps in September!
Hyperscale Your Enterprise Business Applications with Microsoft Dataverse
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this blog by James Oleinik, you can read about a lot of new and existing features in Microsoft Dataverse. Dataflows, AI Prompts and Fabric Integration are just a couple of the features that can help you.
Use Copilot to quickly filter, sort, and search canvas app galleries with SQL Server
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 In this blog by Lance Delano and Jordan Chodak, you can learn about new Copilot features that help you generate formulas for when you are working with SQL Server as a data source.
Update to Direct Lake documentation
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Christian Wade posted a blog on updates to the Direct Lake documentation. Make sure to check out the blog to learn all about the new updates.
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