Power Platform Weekly - Issue #190
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week a new white paper, Power Automate cloud flows best practices, was made available. Read it and share your feedback with one of the authors. Link for download.
The general availability of Data Workspace was announced.
Keep up with what’s new in Microsoft Copilot Studio with the What’s new page and Microsoft Copilot Studio Release Notes page.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Create Lead Scoring Models in Real-time Marketing
🦸🏻♀️ Lead scoring models has been around for a while now, but when it was first released it had a few ‘issues’ or ‘quirks’. Now, Megan V. Walker, will say she thinks it’s a valuable piece of functionality for those using Leads in Dynamics 365.
The Most Important Setting in Your Power Platform
🚀 All settings are (probably) important in their own way, but there is one that is really really important, and of course Microsoft turns if off by default. David Wyatt shows you why Tenant Isolation is very important.
Power Apps Error Handling Essentials
🦸🏻♀️ Power Apps error handling is a critical aspect of any canvas app build. Power Fx or other functionality may not always run as planned, so we should greet users with clear guidance. In this article, Craig White will go over some simple error handling techniques that you can leverage in your canvas apps.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Add the Account/Company Lookup field to a Dynamics 365 Realtime Marketing form by Amey Holden
🦸🏻♀️ Case handling time (Preview) by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️ Secured Masking Rules In Dataverse (Dynamics 365) by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Integrate eSignature with Power Pages by Olena Grischenko
🦸🏻♀️ New Column Security Profile experience by Jeroen Scheper
🚀🦸🏻♀️ What datacenter is my dataverse instance in? by Gustaf Westerlund
🦸🏻♀️ Spotlight on Business Units in Customer Insights - Journeys by Sharon Smith
🦸🏻♀️ Unified Routing – Agent Capacity / Availability Issues by Neil Parkhurst
🦸🏻♀️ Show/Hide Buttons Based on Entity Permissions Using Power FX by Inogic
👩💻 Dataverse: Retrieve data using TDS Endpoint in Plugin by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Microsoft Mechanics Podcast
👩💻 Build your custom applications with Azure AI right from your code. With Azure AI, leverage over 1,700 models, seamlessly integrating them into your coding environment to create tailored app experiences. Utilize features like Retrieval Augmented Generation and vector search to enrich responses with contextual information and prebuilt Azure AI services to incorporate cognitive skills such as language, vision, and safety detection.
Dan Taylor, Principal Product Architect for Microsoft Azure AI, also shares how to streamline your development process with tools for orchestration and monitoring. Use templates to simplify resource deployment and run evaluations against large datasets to optimize performance. With Application Insights, gain visibility into your app's metrics, enabling data-driven decisions for continuous improvement.
Dynamics Corner Podcast
🧭 Cutting-edge tech is just one side of successful software implementations. Have you considered what the other is?
Join Kristoffer Ruyeras, Brad Prendergast, and Christian Lenz as they explore the often-overlooked human aspect of software implementations in the latest episode.
RunAsRadio Podcast
👩💻 How can OpenAI help you with PowerShell? Richard talks to Doug Finke about his experiences with ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot to help him write PowerShell and how he incorporated the OpenAI API into a PowerShell library to create a conversational interface in his PowerShell scripts! Doug talks about his productivity gains using OpenAI to write better quality PowerShell faster - helping him understand the code, automate test writing, and explore aspects of PowerShell he had never dug into. But beyond writing code for him, adding the conversational interface to a PowerShell script opens a whole new interactive opportunity to make it easier for folks to use scripts and do more with them!
📅 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
Data Workspace is Now Generally Available!
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Prithvi Khosla & Travis Shu wrote in their blog that Data Workspace is now generally available for Power Apps, enabling users to create complex data models with Copilot's assistance. The update includes expanded language and geo availability, enhanced AI models, and the ability to build both canvas and model-driven apps directly from the workspace.
Unveiling seamless authentication with Power Pages and Microsoft Entra External ID
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 In his blog, Ankita Vishwakarma introduces the public preview of Microsoft Entra External ID as an identity provider for Microsoft Power Pages. This integration simplifies external-facing app authentication, enhancing security and user experience while providing scalability to support businesses of all sizes.
Power Pages Security Features: Enhancing Website Security for Admins in PPAC
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Pramitha Udupa wrote in her blog about new security features in Power Pages. These include tools for renewing website authentication and SSL certificate keys, as well as a deep scan feature to identify vulnerabilities. These updates help admins ensure secure websites, avoid risks, and maintain seamless access for users.
Work and automate simultaneously with picture-in-picture in Power Automate
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Petros Feleskouras writes in his blog that Power Automate's new Picture-in-Picture feature allows users to run desktop flows in a virtual window, enabling multitasking without interrupting current work. This boosts productivity and enhances user experience by facilitating simultaneous automation and manual tasks.
82 new Power Platform connectors and 43 updates to elevate your automation journey
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In her blog, Shefaali Patankar announced the release of 82 new connectors and 43 updates to existing ones. There are new Copilot connectors like Zoho ZeptoMail, Zoho Mail and Litera Search. New Power Platform connectors are Encodian - who split their connector in multiple smaller connectors, Arcgis and more.
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