Power Platform Weekly - Issue #194
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Power Apps October 2024 Feature Update was presented.
What’s new in Copilot Studio November was summarized.
Smart paste in model-driven Power Apps was highlighted. GA in D365 apps and Preview in Power Apps. Read more in Microsoft Learn.
New XrmToolBox tool available: Flow Ownership Audit. Try it out and give your feedback!
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Spotlight on Copilot for Sales' "UI for AI": Project Sophia
🦸🏻♀️ Project Sophia has also gone through its own evolution, from what some commentators were calling a solution looking for a problem, into a groundbreaking AI-first application. Sharon Smith gives a tour of what it is.
Missing Dependencies Error for Primary Name Column of Tables Created in Table Visual Designer Experience
🦸🏻♀️ With the recent introduction of the new table visual designer in Power Apps, creating tables has become a streamlined, intuitive process. However, Linn Zaw Win found an issue with an easy solution.
SQL 4 CDS v9.4 Released
🛠️ Mark Carrington was reviewing some incredible usage stats for SQL 4 CDS recently which showed that UPDATE statements make up almost 75% of the queries you run! So, he thought it was time to add in some improvements in this area.
Other articles
🛠️ How to Secure a Dataverse Plug-in with Managed Identity using Plugin Identity Manager for XrmToolBox by David Rivard
🦸🏻♀️ Taking Advantage Of Link Aliases In Your Realtime Emails by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Outbound Segments Used In Real-time Journeys Notification by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Low-Code & Pro-Code together: Create CSV file with PA and Custom API by Wilmer Alcivar
🦸🏻♀️ Visualize your view with Power BI by Jeroen Scheper
🛠️ XrmToolbox: Flow Ownership Audit by Laurens Vandendriessche
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
365 Message Center Show Podcast
🤵🏻 Save your favorite prompts, whether they are suggested, or you created them, into Copilot Labs library. Share them with your teammates using M365 Copilot at work. Daniel and Darrell also mention the new Teams chats and channels combined experience and decide the topic needs its own special episode.
Awkward Silence Podcast
👩💻 In this episode, we dive deep into a variety of listener questions from recent power platform conferences with our hosts, discussing key topics such as effective naming conventions, junction tables, and handling conflicting requirements in CRM projects. We also touch upon the nuances of requirements gathering, solution design, and agile methodologies. Join us for an insightful conversation packed with practical advice and industry experiences.
📅 Events & Webinars
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!
Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2025
(📅 January 30-31, 2025)
Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2025, set for January 30-31, will bring together top experts to share updates on Microsoft Cloud technology, including AI, machine learning, and scalable infrastructure.
Update Days: Power Platform
(📅 February 4-5, 2025)
Update Days is a conference for professional developers building enterprise grade solutions. It will be hosted in Prague, Czech Republic on the 4th and 5th of February 2025!
ColorCloud Hamburg 2025
(📅 April 24, 2025)
ColorCloud is back in 2025! After the highly successful first edition, the new edition is happening in April 2025. Again, it will be a great event for everyone who likes Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Azure & Power BI.
💙 Out of the Blue
What’s new in Copilot Studio: November
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Not just Power Apps and Power BI have monthly update blogs! Copilot Studio joins the gang with a monthly blog on what’s new in Copilot Studio! Look and see what’s new in Copilot Studio - the November 2024 edition!
New smart paste makes filling forms as easy as copy & paste
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 This amazing new feature enables you to easily fill forms when you have a large text with lots of details. Smart paste will figure out which part of the text belongs in which fields and then fills it in for you. After that, you can check the fields and hit save!
What’s new in Power Apps: October 2024 Feature Update
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this blog by Clay Wesener, you can read about the feature updates for Power Apps from October 2024. As a reminder: don’t forget to read about the Microsoft Learn updates and check out Power Apps Pulse - the video summary of great new features!
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