Power Platform Weekly - Issue #191
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Power BI October 2024 Feature Summary was presented.
The preview of Intelligent Forms for Power Pages was announced.
New updates for Pipelines in Power Platform were highlighted.
We got a summary of What's New in Copilot for Sales - October 2024.
The Powerful Devs Conference 2025 Call for Speakers ends October 30. Submit your session!
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles



Custom Lookup Filtering in 2024
👩💻 One of the most common questions Oleksandr Olashyn receives is how to perform custom lookup filtering in Power Pages. His last post was written in 2019 and a lot has changed in the last five years. In this blog, he revisits that old question and provides an answer on how you can custom filter lookups in 2024.
Data Workspace
🦸🏻♀️ Data workspace went GA recently. While there is no doubt that this is the future for creating Dataverse data models, it does have two irritating shortcomings. Read the story from Joe Gill.
Power Platform’s Protection — Building secure and responsible Generative AI solutions
🦸🏻♀️🚀 The rapid adoption of Generative AI has been one of the most significant technological shifts in recent years. However, as organizations gradually increase their investment in Generative AI, important considerations like security and responsible AI seem to be sometimes overlooked. Read Raphaël Pothin’s perspectives on this topic in relation to the Power Platform.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Create a Relationship in Your Semantic Model ⭐ New blog spotted ⭐ by Snorre Glemmestad
🚀 Switching Between The Advanced Settings Experience by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Form Prefill In Customer Insights Realtime Marketing by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Quote approval with workflow approvals using Power Automate by Jeroen Scheper
👩💻 Set up managed identity for Power Platform Plugins by Clive Oldridge
🦸🏻♀️ Working With Dataverse Tables in Power Automate by David Wyatt
🦸🏻♀️ Free up Storage space – ActivityPointerBase and WorkflowLogBase by Nishant Rana
🧭 Changes in the FTRSA Program by EY Kalman
🦸🏻♀️ Elevate Copilot Interactions with Rich Media Responses, Images, and Videos in Copilot Studio by Inogic
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts



Low-Code Approach Podcast
👩💻 When should you use Microsoft Dataverse when building solutions? Why would you choose Dataverse over SharePoint or SQL for your solutions? To understand why your organization would benefit by using Dataverse, IT admins and solution developers need to better understand Dataverse offers. Luckily, Oleg Ovanesyan joins the podcast to give us the low down in what will become a series of demystifying Dataverse.
Copilot Connection Podcast
🧭 In this episode of the Copilot Connection, hosts Zoe Wilson and Kevin McDonnell discuss the latest updates in the Microsoft Copilot ecosystem, including a new feature called Copilot Labs (not Lab...), insights from the upcoming Microsoft Ignite conference, and the importance of AI integration in business. They also touch on the significance of empowering neurodivergent employees and the community's engagement in upcoming events.
Power Platform Boost Podcast
🚀 In this episode of the podcast, the hosts dive into a variety of topics surrounding the Power Platform. They start with a discussion on the importance of community mentorship, followed by essential updates for Power Platform administrators. Listeners can learn about new tools for developers and get clarity on connection references. Personal stories from the tech industry provide relatable insights, while the episode also covers the integration of Entra External ID in Power Pages and an overview of Microsoft Purview.
📅 Events & Webinars



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
Add reusable custom components in Design Studio!
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 You can now add custom components in Power Pages design studio! This enables you to add web templates as reusable custom components in the design studio. Read the blog by Gitanjali Singh to learn more!
Exciting New Updates for Pipelines in Power Platform
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Anthony Sheehi wrote a blog about new updates to the pipelines in Power Platform. There are amazing updates in the blog and Anthony also teases the updates coming at Microsoft Ignite next month! Make sure to read the blog!
Power BI October 2024 Feature Summary
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Jason Himmelstein rounds up all the Power BI updates for this month! Make sure to check out the blog for all the great updates, like: Quick measure suggestions with Copilot to be replaced with Microsoft Fabric Copilot, an update with Azure Map – Data Bound Reference Layers, and a preview of New List Slicer.
Announcing Intelligent Forms for Power Pages (preview)
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 In this blog, Vamsee Dilli announces intelligent forms. This is an AI powered upgrade to the Power Pages form experience. Auto-Fill Assistance and Draft Assistance for Multi-line Text Input are some of the features that it comes with!
Live edit of Direct Lake models in Power BI Desktop
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 In this blog, Rui Romano writes about live editing of Power BI semantic models in Direct Lake mode. Now, you can use Power BI Desktop to edit Direct Lake semantic models, improving your data modeling experience and allowing export to Power BI Project (PBIP) for professional development workflows.
Announcing the retirement of real-time streaming in Power BI
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this blog, Shannon Lindsay announces the retirement schedule of real-time streaming in Power BI.
On-premises data gateway October 2024 release
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Another update to the on-premises data gateway is available! Check out the blog by Nikki Waghani for all the details!
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