Power Platform Weekly - Issue #205
Powerful Devs week, discount code for Canadian Power Platform Summit & more
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Power Apps January Feature Update was presented, Copilot Studio January news was highlighted. A new set tools from the Microsoft Power CAT was announced - AI Solution Documentation, Code Review and more.
The Canadian Power Platform Summit takes place in Vancouver, March 21-22. Use this discount code PPWEEKLY15 to get 15% off on workshops or general admission.
The Power Platform Advocate 🥑 team announced a new Learning Path - ‘Simplify Microsoft Power Platform Deployments by Using Pipelines’.
There’s a new source for weekly Power Automate tips: aka.ms/PowerAutomateTips, announced by the the Microsoft FastTrack Dynamics 365 team.
Don’t forget - it’s the Powerful Devs Conference and Hack Together week!
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Power Platform’s Protection — Microsoft Sentinel, the watchtower
🚀 Relying only on log searches limits their potential to strengthen security. So, how can we move beyond passive auditing and turn these logs into actions? This is where Microsoft Sentinel steps in. Raphaël Pothin shows you how to use it.
The Super Villain Power App
🦸🏻♀️ You may have seen a new tenant feature to blog manual resubmits in Power Automate Cloud Flows. That is because David Wyatt found a security hole. Read more about it here.
Power CAT Tools – Initial thoughts on using DocuPilot to “generate high-quality technical documentation effortlessly”
🦸🏻♀️ Rene Modery shows some of the latest Power CAT tools. Specifically the new AI tool that can generate a technical description of your solution.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Create Dynamic Email Signatures With User Images In Realtime by Megan V. Walker
👩💻 Secretless cross tenant access – Logic Apps + Dataverse by Natraj Yegnaraman
🦸🏻♀️ Do you have strict security requirements for your workflows? Azure Logic Apps is the solution by Stefano Demiliani
🦸🏻♀️ Move to managed solutions by Benedikt Bergmann
👩💻 DIY Redirect landing page for CI-J by Gustaf Westerlund
🛠️ Universal Search Export to Excel by Mike Factorial
🦸🏻♀️ Allowing Image Input and Analysis in Microsoft Copilot Studio by Sam Kumar
🦸🏻♀️ Cards Are Cool, But Some People Just Wanna Type by Sandeep Angara
🦸🏻♀️ Power Automate Run A Query Against A Power BI Dataset by Matthew Devaney
🦸🏻♀️ RIP CS/CC's Smart Assist... but is your successor really Copilot? by Sharon Smith
🚀 Dataverse Git integration (Preview) - ALM Considerations by Riccardo Gregori
🦸🏻♀️ Fire ‘Get Manager (V2)’ in Power Automate – Graph API is the New Boss! by Ellis Karim
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Amazing Apps Podcast
🧭 In this episode, Neil breaks down six situations when you might be tempted to use a waterfall method and shares his thoughts on whether that's really the best approach.
Dynamics Corner Podcast
👩💻 In this episode of Dynamics Corner, Kris and Brad converse with recent Microsoft MVP Sai Turlapati. Listen in as Sai shares insights on the evolution of AI, particularly in the enterprise sector, emphasizing Microsoft's significant role in AI adoption. He discusses the importance of prompting in AI interactions and the emerging concept of agents that can automate tasks.
Power Platform Boost Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ This episode is packed with cutting-edge insights from both Microsoft and the Power Platform community! We explore the latest from Microsoft, including customizing Copilot chat with Copilot Studio and working with existing tables in the data workspace. From the community, we dive into creative solutions like a Battleship game in Power Apps, using Power Pages for internal projects, and managing Power Automate flows at scale. We also highlight Dataverse activity tables, a clever way to enhance Contact and Lead forms, and even an AI-generated poem! Plus, we recap key events like Tallinn’s Cloud Technology Townhall and the Arctic Cloud Developer Challenge (ACDC), featuring top blog posts and final submissions. Whether you want to master Copilot use cases, custom pages, or overcome information overload, this episode has something for everyone. Tune in and level up your Power Platform expertise! 🚀
📅 Events & Webinars
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!
Canadian Power Platform Summit 2025
(📅 March 21-22, 2025)
The 2025 edition of the Canadian Power Platform Summit is coming up soon! Lots of MVPs will travel to Vancouver before the MVP Summit to speak on their favorite topics, so it promises to be a great event!
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.
European Power Platform Conference 2025
(📅 June 16-19, 2025)
The European Power Platform Conference 2025 promises to be another great conference! The speakers will be announced soon, but make sure to check out the site already for the early bird sale!
💙 Out of the Blue
What’s new in Copilot Studio: January 2025
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this blog by Omar Aftab, you can read all about the Copilot Studio updates that came out in January 2025! Copilot Chat, Pay as you go, and much more are part of the blog! Check it out!
Announcing the ‘Simplify Microsoft Power Platform Deployments by Using Pipelines’ Learning Path
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 In this blog, our very own Daniel Laskewitz announces the new learning path for pipelines in Power Platform. You can learn all about setting up, creating and extending pipelines!
Mastering automated testing in Power Platform: Evergreen concepts for robust solutions
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 Grant Archibald wrote an amazing blog about automated testing Power Platform. He wrote this blog as a teaser for his session at Powerful Devs, so make sure to watch this as well!
Microsoft Fabric Copilot to write DAX queries in Power BI update
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 In this blog by Zoe Douglas, she announces that DAX queries with Copilot can now utilize semantic model descriptions, synonyms, and sample values from columns.
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