Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the 2025 Release Wave 1 plans were made available. Along followed an official blog post, and a YouTube playlist.
Remember you can also use the Release Planner to browse what’s coming.
The Public Preview of the Power Apps Plan Designer was highlighted.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
🌊 2025 Release Wave 1
🦸🏻♀️ Power Platform Boost Podcast Episode 50 by Ulrikke Akerbæk and Nick Doelman
🦸🏻♀️ 2025 Release Wave 1 for Dynamics 365 CI - Journeys by Pauline Kolde
🦸🏻♀️ Release wave 1 2025 Customer Insights – Journeys & CI - Data by Malin Martnes
🦸🏻♀️ Wave hello to 2025 🤘 | D365 HR by Ana Inés Urrutia
🦸🏻♀️ Release wave 1 2025 – Customer Insights Journeys by Adrian Sjøholt
🦸🏻♀️ My Top Power Platform Features of the New Release Wave by Ben den Blanken
🦸🏻♀️ 2025 Release Wave 1 – Highlights and Reflections by Carina M. Claesson
📰 Articles



Enable Attendees to Cancel Their Own Registrations in D365 Customer Insights Journeys: Part 1
🦸🏻♀️ Carl Gustavsson shows how to give event attendees the ability to cancel their event registration all by themselves in D365 Customer Insights Journeys.
Power Pages: Cache test dummies
🦸🏻♀️ Nick Doelman does a deep dive on caching in Power Pages. Everything from how the caching works to how you can work around and with it.
Dynamics 365 Contact Centre - worth it or not?
🦸🏻♀️🧭 Last year, Microsoft brought out a new offering called ‘Dynamics 365 Contact Center’. EY Kalman recently had the opportunity to dig deeper into the offering, and wants to share his thoughts as to whether it’s worth it or not.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Marketing Website Visited Trigger Glossary For CI-J by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Prioritize seasonal sales using AI by Jeroen Scheper
🦸🏻♀️ Can ChatGPT really help with building Power Apps? by Hardit Bhatia
🦸🏻♀️ How to let Copilot Studio speak to you via telephone by Bülent Altinsoy
🚀 Let's Talk About Power Platform Previews by David Wyatt
🦸🏻♀️ Power Automate: Send SharePoint List Item Comments via Email by Ellis Karim
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts



RunAs Radio Podcast
What about SQL Server in Microsoft Fabric? Richard chats with Anna Hoffman about the preview release of SQL 2025 in Microsoft Fabric and the power of having your data store where you are doing your analytics and machine learning! Anna talks about new applications being developed using AI technologies like large language models and that often those applications need a data store - so why not keep it with the application in a configuration ideally suited for that work? The conversation digs into the relationship between existing SQL data stores and Fabric, how interconnections can happen, and perhaps a future of motion between them - but for now, it's a preview, so take a look!
Microsoft Community Insights
Unlock the future of data analytics with insights from Javier Villegas, a Microsoft MVP, as he unpacks the game-changing features of Microsoft Fabric. This episode promises to transform your understanding of data management by exploring how this SaaS platform revolutionizes data ingestion, storage, and analysis. Say goodbye to cumbersome and costly traditional data methods and discover how Microsoft Fabric integrates effortlessly with Power BI to provide a robust, scalable solution.
Figuring Out Fabric Podcast
In this Episode, Gene interviews Kristyna Ferris about the different types of data Movement in Microsoft Fabric. Specifically, we talk about gen 2 dataflows, data pipelines, and Spark notebooks. We see how you start simple and work your way up. Kristyna shares the "faucets first" approach at P3 adaptive.
📅 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
2025 release wave 1 plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, and Role-based Copilot offerings
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 As mentioned in the intro, the release wave plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform and role-based Copilot offerings are out! Make sure to check them out. Ryan Martin summed up the highlights in one handy blog post!
Introducing the plan designer in Power Apps (preview)
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 At Power Platform Community Conference in Las Vegas, the plan designer got revealed! But now you can try it out yourself! Jessica Lo blogs about how you can get started!
SQL Server environment variables available for Power Apps
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 In this blog, by Lance Delano, SQL Server environment variables are announced! This has been requested a lot by customers and partners. Make sure to try it out if you work with SQL Server as a datasource!
Add Copilot Summaries to Power BI email subscriptions (Preview)
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Nirupama Srinivasan shows in this blog how you can use Copilot Summaries to add to Power BI email subscriptions. It’s easy to setup, make sure to read the blog on how you can do this.
Power BI Report Server January 2025 Feature Summary
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Denyse Niwenshuti wrote a new feature summary blog for Power BI Report Server. To catch up to all the new features that came out in January 2025, make sure to read this blog.
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