Power Platform Weekly - Issue #195
It's Microsoft Ignite week! 🥳
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
This week Microsoft Ignite will be held in Chicago and three of us Power Platform Weekly curators will be there in-person, stay tuned for curated Ignite news next week!
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Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
D365 user queue: control which emails are synced. Default to No email messages
🦸🏻♀️ While Olena Grischenko looks forward to moving her customers to Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales, with the functionality gaps and pricing and general AI adoption challenges, she couldn’t retire the good old Dynamics 365 App for Outlook just yet. Learn how to adapt to this mixed world.
Copilot in D365 HR: Task recording you are out!
🦸🏻♀️ Ana Inés Urrutia shows us how to use Task Recordings in Dynamics 365 ERP to enable users to figure out solutions to their issues in the system by themselves.
Autonomous Agents in D365: Customer Knowledge Management Agent
🦸🏻♀️ Microsoft introduced new and enhanced AI capabilities, notably the 10 new autonomous agents in Microsoft Dynamics 365 to build capacity for sales, service, finance, and supply chain teams. Sharon Smith shows what is possible.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Native Dataverse Git Repository Integration by Rami Mounla
🦸🏻♀️ Power Automate - Restrict the HTTP Request trigger by IP Address by Paul Murana
🦸🏻♀️ Using & Converting Time Zone Fields in Dynamics 365 by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ How To Import Contact Point Consent Records In Realtime by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Unified Routing – Improved Overflow Routing by Neil Parkhurst
🦸🏻♀️ Extending Copilot in D365 Sales – Part 2 by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️ Error Handling for Project Schedule API in Power Automate by Linn Zaw Win
👩💻 Dataverse internals: where are "security roles for form" saved? by Riccardo Gregori
🚀 Power Platform - Direct to Prod? by David Wyatt
🦸🏻♀️ Understanding the Feature Switches in Customer Insights – Journeys by Jesper Osgaard
🦸🏻♀️ Classic Experience of Modern Themes for Model-Driven Apps by Anna Black
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Ctrl+Alt+Azure Podcast
🧭 In this week's episode, we look at recent Microsoft Tech updates. By popular request, we're expanding the scope beyond just Azure to include Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and similar Microsoft platforms and capabilities. What's new? What's interesting? What's retiring? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.
Low-Code Approach Podcast
👩💻 What can help you design application workloads for current needs and future challenges? What will help you asses what areas of your Microsoft Power Platform needs attention and resources? What even is a workload? Robert Standefer and Manuela Pichler, creators of Power Platform Well-Architected joins the podcast to go over who is this for and how it can help your organization improve.
Power Platform Boost Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ Dive into this episode of Power Platform Boost, where we unravel the most exciting updates and tips from the Power Platform ecosystem. From custom lookup filtering techniques by Oleksandr Olashyn to Power Automate’s integration with Power Fx by Matthew Devaney, and groundbreaking Git integration previews, we cover it all. Explore the latest in ALM practices, smart paste innovations, and advanced settings toggles with insights from industry experts like Megan V. Walker and Casey Burke. Whether you're a seasoned developer or a low-code enthusiast, this episode offers invaluable knowledge to enhance your Power Platform journey. Don't miss out!
📅 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
Introducing Git Integration in Power Platform (preview)
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Shan McArthur announces this long awaited feature in his blog: Git Integration in Power Platform. You can now link your environment or solution to a Git repository and then see the source code in your repository when you commit your changes via the maker portal!
Creating and explaining formulas with Copilot now even easier
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this blog by Warren Bryant, a new feature in Power Apps is announced! Copilot for Formulas! You can now enable it in your apps, then you’ll be able to describe what you want and then the Power Fx formula will get generated. Mind you, this feature is still in preview, so make sure to report it when you don’t get what you expect.
Microsoft Power Automate customer managed key support now generally available
👩💻🚀 Customer managed keys are now supported in environments with Power Automate flows. The preview was out for a while, but Sachin Mathur announces in this blog that it’s now generally available (GA).
Optimize Power Pages Site Performance with Content Delivery Network (CDN) for Static Web Pages
👩💻🚀 You can now use a Content Delivery Network (CDN) for static web pages. This is an addition on top of the CDN for static files that was already available. Nagesh Bhat has all the details in this blog!
Power BI November 2024 Feature Summary
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this blog by Patrick Leblanc, you can catch up to all the Power BI feature updates! A great way to catch up to all the news!
Introducing Copilot in Power BI Mobile Apps (Preview)
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this blog by Michal Foster Heldy, Copilot for Power BI Mobile Apps gets announced! You can easily generate summaries of the data your viewing via Copilot for the mobile apps!
Important update to Microsoft Power BI pricing
🧭🚀 From April 1st 2025 the price of Power BI Premium Per User (PPU) and Power BI Pro prices will go up! Read this blog by Kim Manis to learn all about it!
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