Power Platform Weekly - Issue #219
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Last week Microsoft announced the Public Preview of the Default Deployment Pipeline Rule for Environment Groups, enabling admins to configure pipelines once.
Today marks the start of Microsoft Build, don’t miss out on exciting announcements and innovations!
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Revamping Your Power Platform Environment Strategy in the Age of Agentic AI
🧭 In this post, Carsten Groth shares a journey of stakeholder discussions, workshops, key insights, and the resulting comprehensive strategy that not only fosters innovation but also reins in operational, security, and cost challenges.
Default Pipeline Rules - Easier administration across an Organisation
🦸🏻♀️ A new feature was announced in the Power Platform Wave 1 2025 release notes, that would enable the access to a default Pipeline via an environment group rule. Matt Collins-Jones shows how to use it.
AI ERP Immersive home
🦸🏻♀️ In this article Ana Inés Urrutia shares how to enable the feature and dive into the new interface called Immersive home.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️Power Automate convertTimeZone using an expression: Decoding the Mystery of Time Zone Names by Linn Zaw Win
🦸🏻♀️Where Can You Find Analytics In Customer Insights Journeys? by Megan V. Walker
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Knee-Deep in Tech Podcast
👩💻 In this news episode, the trio looks into updates to Delivery Optimization templates in Intune and the long-awaited arrival of Recall and other AI features. Azure Key Vault integration finally lands in Fabric, and Azure Maps introduces new tenant settings to take a look at. Valerie Junk’s blog post on profit & loss statements sparks some reflection, while Power BI gets new tooling. On the Azure side of the fence Virtual Network TAP enters public preview and Azure Storage Actions hits GA.
Power Platform Boost Podcast
🧭 In this episode of Power Platform Boost, the hosts explore the evolving role of AI within the Microsoft Power Platform, highlighting the shift from top-down to bottom-up innovation and the growing importance of AI as a thought partner. Key topics include updates to Copilot Studio, agent-to-agent frameworks, advanced FetchXML usage, and strategies for managing burnout and navigating conferences as an introvert.
Power Time Podcast
🧭 Hosts Scott Meddings and Matt Noble dive into the transformative effects of AI on conversational interfaces. They discuss the evolution from Power Virtual Agents to the groundbreaking Copilot Studio, highlighting how AI disruptions have reshaped project timelines and application-building processes.
📅 Events & Webinars
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!
Nordic Summit 2025
(📅 September 19-20, 2025)
Nordic Summit is the biggest and only in-person conference in the Nordics focused exclusively on Microsoft’s Power Platform and Dynamics 365. This year it will be held in Gothenborg, Sweden!
Power Platform Community Conference 2025
(📅 October 28-31, 2025)
Be inspired by Microsoft senior thought leaders, the product experts, and engineers behind the Power Platform. You’ll also learn from Microsoft MVPs who are dedicated to bridging the gap between humanity and technology. PPCC is the perfect place to connect with folks from around the world who are eager to share their insights and knowledge on how the Power Platform & Dynamics 365 can transform your business.
💙 Out of the Blue
Use shareable Service Principal Name with Power Apps
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 In this blog by Lance Delano, he writes about a new feature where you can use shareable SPN connections for SQL in Power Apps. And for the US Government users out there, this will roll out to you in the next couple of weeks!
Deep dive into selection expressions for calculation groups
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Jeroen ter Heerdt writes about selection expressions for calculation groups in Power BI, which provide fine-tuned control over calculations when specific conditions are met. These expressions enhance report functionality by handling multiple selections or cases where no selection is made, enabling scenarios like automatic currency conversion.
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