Power Platform Weekly - Issue #210
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Microsoft Copilot Studio team announced a Limited Preview of GPT-4.5 in Copilot Studio. Other interesting out of the blue news was the introduction of Managed Availability for Power Platform.
The Canadian Power Platform Summit takes place in Vancouver this week! Get 15% off on workshops or general admission with the discount code PPWEEKLY15.
We spotted a new blog, SamTalks365. In the first post, Sam Hillier shares a summary from his talk on Release Wave 1 2025 highlights at a UK Dynamics 365 & Power Platform User Group meeting.
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Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Model-Driven App Trick : How to Hide a Ribbon Button when the Form is Dirty
👩💻 David Rivard recently encountered a requirement on a model-driven app project to display a custom ribbon button only when the form had no unsaved changes, with other words, the button needed to be hidden whenever the form was dirty.
Mathematically Elegant way to Flatten an Array of Arrays in Power Automate
🦸🏻♀️ When working with data in Power Automate, you may encounter nested arrays (arrays within arrays). In this post, John Liu shows you a mathematically elegant way to flatten an array of arrays into a single-level array using Power Automate expressions.
Event portal enhancements
🦸🏻♀️ In the February release we finally got a major enhancement to connecting events from Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Journeys and Power Pages and your own website. This blog, by Malin Martnes, will go through how you can create a Power Pages website with event template and connect your event to your own website.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Automating Meeting Notes with Microsoft Graph API and Azure OpenAI in Power Platform – Part 2 by Mohamed Ashiq Faleel
🦸🏻♀️ New AI Agents to close deals faster by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️ AI Models + AI prompts: CV screening with Power Apps and Power Automate by Ana Inés Urrutia
🦸🏻♀️ Send Individual Session Check In Follow Up Emails For Events by Megan V. Walker
👩💻 Integrating Azure OpenAI models in your Projects: A Comprehensive Guide by Sam Kumar
🦸🏻♀️ Customer Address revisited by Gustaf Westerlund
🛠️ Improved typings in Dataverse DevTools by Danish Naglekar
🦸🏻♀️ Power Platform DLP Bypass by David Wyatt
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 Dataverse internals: where are "security roles for views" saved? by Riccardo Gregori
🦸🏻♀️ Azure Data Factory: Read CSV file, Transform and push data to Dataverse by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Amazing Apps Podcast
🧭 Hamish Sheild is a Microsoft MVP and Power Platform consultant specialising in applying Design Thinking practices to our apps and projects to make them more human-centred. Hamish discusses the different activities and artifacts we've experimented with before starting the delivery phase of our Power Platform and Dynamics 365 projects.
Low Code Approach Podcast
🚀 Microsoft Power Platform releases new features and tools all the time. And with a constant flow of news and updates, sometimes content gets lost. What this often leads to is misconceptions of Power Platform and governance offerings. Ken, Jocelyn, and Sean chime in on how to break free from the noise, get the information you need, and debunk some misconceptions.
XrmToolCast Podcast
👩💻 Daryl and Scott delve into the Power Apps Test Engine with Grant Archibald, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, highlighting the strategic importance of automated testing in enhancing application reliability and efficiency.
📅 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
Introducing Managed Availability for Power Platform
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this blog, Shivani Pradhan introduces managed availability for Power Platform! This functionality focuses on enterprise grade reliability and availability for mission critical workloads! Read to blog to learn all about it!
Announcing a Limited Preview of GPT-4.5 in Copilot Studio
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Alejandro Gutierrez Munoz announced that GPT 4.5 is now available for Copilot Studio through a limited preview! You can switch between GPT-4o and GPT-4.5 in the settings!
How to deploy transformational enterprise-wide agents: Microsoft as Customer Zero
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this blog, Richard Riley writes about how Microsoft learned how to build, deploying, and measuring the success of enterprise-wide agents!
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