Power Platform Weekly - Issue #208
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Powerful Devs Conference & Hack Together was summarized by the Microsoft Advocate team. The sessions are available on-demand in this YouTube playlist.
Your Copilot Studio agents can be integrated with Microsoft Entra External ID, enabling customers to securely access them. For more details, read the Microsoft how-to article published last week.
Happy International Women's Day this week! Let’s celebrate the incredible women making a difference in tech and beyond 🌍 and remember, uplifting each other is something we can do every day.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Style Your Fluent UI 9 PCFs for Power Apps
👩💻 In a previous blog from Diana Birkelbach she wrote about how to apply Theming to a PCF made with Fluent UI 9. This blog concentrates on how to make a PCF look like the “modern controls” (canvas apps) or the “new look” (model-driven apps).
Send Portal Forgotten Password Email Using Customer Insights - Journeys
🦸🏻♀️ In this post, Megan V. Walker shows you how you can send out the forgotten password email from Power Pages using Customer Insights – Journeys.
Power Pages: Configure Entra External ID
🦸🏻♀️ When building a Power Pages website where you will have external stakeholders signing in, it is highly recommended to use an external authentication provider and not the out-of-the-box forms based login and password. Nick Doelman shows how to setup the currently in preview Entra External ID.
Other articles
👩💻 Power Pages: Why Liquid and FetchXML Is Better Than Web API for Read Operations by Nicholas Hayduk
🦸🏻♀️ Custom Lead Qualification in Dynamics 365 by Angeliki Patsiavou
🦸🏻♀️ Power Pages: Site Settings as Environment variables by Nick Doelman
🦸🏻♀️ Smooth UI or not? Create Word and Excel templates by Jeroen Scheper
🦸🏻♀️ Create A Simple Event Session Registration Trigger by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Custom Copilot Record Summaries in D365 Customer Service by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️ Challenge 037 | Plan Designer by Miguel Verweij
🦸🏻♀️ Automating Meeting Notes with Microsoft Graph API and Azure OpenAI – Part 1 by Mohamed Ashiq Faleel
🦸🏻♀️ The 4 API's of the Power Platform by David Wyatt
🧭 Overcoming Power Platform Adoption Challenges – Why People Are the Key by Hamish Sheild
🛠️ PACX ⁓ Work with views by Riccardo Gregori
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Microsoft Mechanics Podcast
👩💻 With the Copilot Control System, you can control Copilot experiences spanning IT administrator tools used every day across the Microsoft 365, Microsoft Purview, and Power Platform admin centers. As an IT administrator, you’re in control of Microsoft 365 Copilot and agent experiences, ensuring security and compliance while optimizing productivity. Copilot Control System focuses on three core areas, where Microsoft Copilot services and the agents you create and use have unmatched manageability and visibility, compared to other AI options.
The Digestible Dynamics Podcast
🧭 In this episode, hosts Kayla Rohde and Bill Whalen are joined by Trey Johnson, Data Analytics Solution Specialist, and Daryl Moll, Data Engineering Director at Velosio, to delve into the intricacies of preparing data for AI adoption. The discussion covers best practices for ensuring data quality, security, and effective planning, while sharing success stories from various business sectors. The guests also explore the future potential of AI in enhancing business processes and decision-making, addressing challenges such as data integration and governance. Tune in to gain valuable insights from experts who are at the forefront of data and analytics solutions.
📅 Events & Webinars
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.
Power Summit – Power Platform Developer Community Bootcamp
(📅 May 24, 2025)
Power Summit is the Largest Free Power Platform & A.I. Community Conference in the United Kingdom, celebrating our 10-year anniversary in teaching low code development & A.I. to solve your organisational challenges. Power Summit aims to demystify the complexities of A.I. and Power Platform development using fun & creative learning techniques inspired from lego and Star Wars to provide a fun day of insight driven learning for technology professionals.
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
Powerful Devs Hack Together 2025 Wrap Up
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this blog, Elaiza Benitez sums up all the Powerful Devs Hack Together sessions. This is your chance to read up on all the sessions there were and watch the replay!
Integrate Copilot Studio agents with Microsoft Entra External ID to give your customers access
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Joylynn Kirui wrote this blog post on how to use Copilot Studio agents and Microsoft Entra External ID together. In the blog post, you can also see an episode of Low Code Revolution on the topic!
On-premises data gateway February 2025 release
🚀 Nikki Waghani announces the February 2025 release of the on-premises data gateway!
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