Power Platform Weekly - Issue #202
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week updates to Data Workspace in Maker Portal was announced. You can now view and managed your existing tables.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat was announced, and with it, consumption costs for autonomous agents (and more) were presented.
The preview of Admin and Maker dedicated Deployment pages was announced.
The 365Community.Online has been re-imagined, well done Mark Christie 👏 The site now has a fresh new look. Submit your content! Link your blog, podcast, YouTube channel or upcoming event and expand your reach to a broader audience! 🌍
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Create Email Templates Using Custom HTML In Realtime Marketing
🦸🏻♀️ You can create email templates using custom HTML and just paste in to the editor. The bad news is the users sending out the emails won’t have the ability to edit anything about them. Megan V. Walker shows how to work around this issue.
How to Publish a Power Platform Connector
🦸🏻♀️ David Wyatt wanted to take you on his journey when he published his first connector. There is a guide provided by Microsoft and it’s what he used. Although good, he found it had 2 main issues and therefore created this blog.
Power Pages – solution management tips, tricks, and gotchas
🦸🏻♀️ One of the main driving features of using the enhanced data model for Power Pages is the ability to add a website to a Power Platform solution and transport to other environments. In this post, Nick Doelman covers a few things that are a bit different than your standard Power Platform building experiences with solutions.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Side Pane Agents by Angeliki Patsiavou
🦸🏻♀️ Plan Designer for HR? Plan Designer for everything by Ana Inés Urrutia
🦸🏻♀️ Enable column reordering in views in power apps grid control by Jeroen Scheper
🦸🏻♀️ Add the Insights tab to Contact and Lead forms without editing Form XML by Amey Holden
🦸🏻♀️ Tagging in SharePoint: Managed Metadata vs. Choice Columns by Sean Astrakhan
🦸🏻♀️ Configurable Copilot Case Summaries for D365 Customer Service by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️ Check Both Leads & Contacts - Realtime Marketing Forms by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ ADF - Set Dataverse Owner by Joe Gill
👩💻 Form-based Dataverse Web Resources with React, Typescript and FluentUI - Part 2 by Riccardo Gregori
👩💻 Dataverse ServiceClient: Comparing ExecuteAsync vs Execute by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Low-Code Approach Podcast
👩💻 Agents are everywhere and so is Microsoft Copilot, but what does that actually mean? Luckily, Richard Riley, GM of Product Marketing for Business Applications, joins the podcast to talk about the difference between agents and Copilot, who gets the most out of agents, and what's next for agents. This episode is jam-packed with information and value and we're excited to hear how Richard helps shape your thoughts on what's possible with Microsoft Copilot and agents.
The Community Dig Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ In this episode, we get to know Savannah Dill, Microsoft MVP and Power BI addict. We talked all about her start in IT, why she likes the Power Platform, tips on getting started, and her favorite PBI project! Also, find out which house we were assigned at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! I enjoyed my convo and any time spent conversing with Savannah!
The Copilot Connection Podcast
🧭 In this episode of Copilot Connection, hosts Zoe Wilson and Kevin McDonnell discuss the evolution of Microsoft's Copilot ecosystem, including the recent announcement of Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. They explore the implications of AI agents in business, insights from the Microsoft Research Future of Work report, and the importance of democratizing access to AI technologies. Finally, we talk about our exciting guest for the next Copilot Fireside Chat and her new team.
📅 Events & Webinars
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!
Powerful Devs 2025
(📅 February 12, 2025)
Powerful Devs is back! Microsoft is organizing another conference aimed at fusion developers! Make sure to check out the sessions on the agenda and register via website!
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.
European Collaboration Summit, European AI and Cloud Summit & European BizApps Summit 2025
(📅 May 26-28, 2025)
With 3000 attendees, the European Collaboration Summit, European AI and Cloud Summit & European BizApps Summit 2025 are uniting forces to become a big, shared conference in Düsseldorf, Germany. New this year is the European BizApps Summit with a focus on Power Platform, Fabric and Dataverse.
DynamicsMinds 2025
(📅 May 26-28, 2025)
An awesome Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Community Conference. Where brilliant minds meet, mingle & share.
💙 Out of the Blue
Enabling agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Richard Riley has the pleasure to introduce agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, the new capability to build agents based on a pay as you go model.
Announcing Powerful Devs Conference + Hack Together 2025
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 April Dunnam announces Powerful Devs Conference + Hack Together 2025! Powerful Devs Conference is a full day conference focused on pro-dev capabilities in the Power Platform and Hack Together is a hackathon that runs multiple weeks! Registrations are opened and if you want to learn more: check out the blog!
User defined functions, user defined types, and enhanced component properties move forward
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 This blog is for the Power Fx lovers! Greg Lindhorst writes about user defined functions and user defined types! Lots of great improvements for the reusability and maintainability of canvas apps! Who is not a fan of that?!
Introducing Maker and Admin Deployment Pages
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Casey Burke announced the new deployment pages for makers and admins. Makers can find the deployment pages in the solutions sections! The admins can find the admin focused deployment pages in the new and improved Power Platform Admin Center! They will increase visibility of what is deployed when and where!
Work with existing tables in data workspace
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Lots of people has asked for this and it is finally here: you can now work with existing tables in data workspace! Travis Shu announces the feature in this blog post! This will make it easy for you to get an ERD view of your tables!
GA announcement: 6 additional modern controls in Canvas!
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 6 new modern controls reach GA! In this blog, by Claudio Romano, you can read all about them! Try them out now!
Power BI January 2025 Feature Summary
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Patrick LeBlanc is back with his write up on the features that came out in January 2025! Make sure to read the blog to catch up in one read! After the holidays that might be the easiest way to get back to it!
Deep dive into TMDL view for Power BI Desktop (Preview)
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 In this blog, Rui Romano introduces the TMDL view for Power BI Desktop. This new preview feature provides an alternative experience to semantic modeling using code instead of the model view!
Save to OneDrive and SharePoint: Updated File Picker (Preview)
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 A lot of Power BI news this week. Anita Ambalavanan announces an updated file picker for saving to OneDrive and SharePoint!
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