Power Platform Weekly - Issue #26

Articles

In the beginning of this article there is a quote from Wikipedia: "Democratization of technology refers to the process by which access to technology rapidly continues to become more accessible to more people." and then Jukka Niiranen describes his observations and thoughts about this topic, of course related to Power Platform!

In this article Gustaf Westerlund describes another type of request limit - Entitlement limitations. He describes the purpose of their existance and explains how you should interpret them.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Updating D365 Customer Voice Marketing Respondents In D365 Marketing by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Microsoft Teams Calls in D365 Sales (Preview)  by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ Knowledge Search Control improvements in Dynamics 365 Customer Service Hub – 2021 Release Wave 1 by Nishant Rana

🦸🏻‍♀️ Dynamics 365 Project Operations: Diagnosing an empty staging table and integration journal by Anti Pajunen

🦸🏻‍♀️ ALM for SharePoint based Solutions without premium licensing – data source environment variables by Michal Sacewicz

🦸🏻‍♀️ Filtering the ‘Regarding’ column in Power Automate by Amey Holden

🦸🏻‍♀️ Implementing Dynamics 365 Field Service – 3 anti-patterns by Ali Khan

🦸🏻‍♀️ Customer Voice a.k.a. Forms Pro the database behind the magic (i.e. Dataverse) by Pieter Veenstra

🦸🏻‍♀️ Date fields in Portals - deep dive by Oleksandr Olashyn

🦸🏻‍♀️ Azure AD Conditional Access and Application Users / Service Principal in Dynamics 365 by Nishant Rana

🦸🏻‍♀️ Let's have some fun - here is "Social Hype" monitoring Power App by Alex Shlega

🦸🏻‍♀️ Dynamics 365 for Outlook Deprecated Alert by Steve Mordue

🦸🏻‍♀️ Dynamics 365 Field Service How To - Part 3 by Stefan Rodic

Tools & Code

Natraj Yegnaraman let's us time travel back to the early days of Microsoft Dynamics CRM and describes the role and possibilities for professional developers in the Microsoft Business Application space back then compared to now and his thoughts about the future for professional developers.

👩‍💻 Custm Action to Custom API converter tool released! by Mark Carrington

👩‍💻 Issue with the PCF Navigation API by Diana Birkelbach

👩‍💻 Offloading Dataverse Attachments To DMS by Ivan Ficko

👩‍💻 Custom Virtual Tables: Perform CRUD operations to another system by Allan De Castro

👩‍💻 How to get GUID of selected view in Dynamics 365 home page grid by Debajit Dutta

Videos

Podcasts

Daryl announces Scott as the new co-host, and he, as well as guest Benedikt Bergmann, teach Daryl how to transition to managed solutions. There is also a short clip from Jonas!

Dani Kahil shares his experience as a web developer and trainer and his involvement with the MVP Community and Dynamics.

John & Jason talk about the news from around the Power BI & Collaboration community and reflect on MVP Summit.

Events & Webinars

Wednesday 14th of April 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM US Eastern Time.

Session by Keith Wathling and open forum.

Thursday 15th of April from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM GMT.

Sessions by Jese Navaranjan & Tomasz Poszytek.

Out of the blue

Microsoft announced this week that the CoE Starter Kit can now be installed in Dataverse for Teams environments. You can now make the Admin, Governance and Nurture templates in the kit a core part of your collaboration with admins, makers and end users in Teams.

Microsoft is now making a series of naming, branding and discovery improvements to the Common Data Service connectors. This blog also covers a lot of the latest improvements!

Microsoft announced this week that you can now train a form processing model to recognize tables that were not supported until today, available in public preview.

👩‍💻 Power Apps portals: Start using code components with portals (Preview) by Sandeep Dhanrajani

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Apps Mixed Reality Components General Availability by Anthony Uitz

🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️ Process advisor updates in March 2021 by Peter Bian

🦸🏻‍♀️ 11 More Connectors Released in March 2021! by Doug Elliott

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