Power Platform Weekly - Issue #212
Greetings from MVP Summit 2025! 🌎
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week Microsoft published a post explaining knowledge in Copilot Studio. The March 2025 update of Power Automate for desktop was announced.
It was the MVP Summit week and it brought us some new connections and content creators to keep an eye on. So cool to see there are content from so many parts of the world! 🌍
Among other sources we discovered a YouTube channel with Power Apps and Power Automate content (in Chinese) from Chisen Yang, the Italian Copilot Espresso show with Federico Porceddu and the blogs and guides from Nicolò Ferranti ✨
Hi from part of the team! 👋 We found a piece of the Berlin wall over at the Microsoft Redmond Campus. We missed Daniel! Who knows, maybe one day we will be in the same room all four of us! Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Calling Dataverse Web API using Delegated Permissions in a Custom Connector
👩💻 When integrating with Microsoft Dataverse, developers may need to interact with the Web API to perform advanced operations such as impersonating users, batching etc. This blog, by Mohamed Ashiq Faleel, explores how to set up a custom connector that calls the Dataverse Web API as the signed in user in a reusable and maintainable way.
View Open Leads With Scores In Customer Insights - Journeys
🦸🏻♀️ In this post, Megan V. Walker shows how you can use the Lead scores table to view open leads with scores and provide additional insight for your sales managers and marketers.
Customer Insights – Journey March Madness
🦸🏻♀️ You probably know that there is an update on Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Journeys every month. This month there are some huge improvements that Malin Martnes has been waiting on for a long time. This post goes through how you can use new unmapped fields in marketing forms.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Google Analytics for Power Pages multi-step forms by Andrew Grischenko
🚀 How to: create a Dataverse environment in a specific Azure Region by David Wyatt
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Mondays at Microsoft Podcast
🧭 Connect Karuana Gatimu and Heather Cook to discover the latest in AI, broader Microsoft product updates, community activities and events, and more. This upcoming show will celebrate Microsoft's 50th anniversary, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. use of Copilot for their 'ConsumerIQ' agent, insights about the Ability Summit, putting Humans First during tax season, and more.
Knee Deep in Tech Podcast
👩💻 What do you get when three techies get a chance to ask questions to figure out how to make sense of Dynamics 365? Excited questions, “Aha!” moments and conversation going on far beyond that, all the way to pros and cons of standard systems. In this episode we are excited to have Business Applications MVP and serial podcaster Johan Persson of “En Liten Podd of IT” fame on the show to answer our toughest questions. Bring your popcorn and enjoy the ride!
BIFocal Podcast
🚀 This is episode 288 recorded on March 19th, 2025 where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric February 2025 Feature Summary, specifically the Power BI section, including a new baseline version of Power BI Desktop, Copilot changes for Power BI, a trick to get conditional formatting for Visual Calcs working, and performance improvements for Direct Lake mode.
📅 Events & Webinars
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
March 2025 update of Power Automate for desktop
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 The new update for Power Automate for desktop is out! Read the blog by Yiannis Mavridis to learn more about new features like test cases, a new SAP action and support for Azure Key Vault credentials!
Announcing the winners of the 2025 Powerful Devs Hack Together
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 The winners of the 2025 Powerful Devs Hack Together were announced this week in this blog post by April Dunnam. Make sure to check out what cool solutions the teams have built!
Knowledge in Microsoft Copilot Studio
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this blog by Srikumar Nair, all the knowledge capabilities of Microsoft Copilot Studio and the inner workings of it are explained. If you want to learn more about this, make sure to read the blog!
Grace period for transitioning from Power BI Premium to Microsoft Fabric
🚀 Power BI Premium per user will be retired in the future, to make way for the Microsoft Fabric SKU. Make sure to follow the migration guidance in the blog post written by Kim Manis to learn what you need to do.
Upcoming Changes to Power BI Mobile App Support for ADFS 2016
In the Power BI Mobile App, Microsoft will stop supporting ADFS 2016. Maya Shenhav wrote the blog with all the details!
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