Power Platform Weekly - Issue #27

Articles

Power Platform Center of Excellence Starter Kit can now run inside a Microsoft Teams based environment. How can all those features fit in there? Jukka Niiranen takes us through the installation process and explores the content.

It is always interesting to hit the wall with limitations when you are working with Power Automate. In this article, Vesa Nopanen takes us through a journey of setting Out of Office from a Power Virtual Agent.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Configuring Wave 1 2021 Relevance Search Quick Actions by Scott Durow

🦸🏻‍♀️ Search Providers (Preview) in Dynamics 365 Customer Service Hub by Nishant Rana

🦸🏻‍♀️ Canvas Apps & Power Automates by EY Kalman

🦸🏻‍♀️ Many shades of Dynamics 365 Alert Notifications by Ali Khan

🦸🏻‍♀️ D365 Field Service Simplified Setups by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ Filter by calculated fields in SharePoint using Power Automate by Pieter Veenstra

🦸🏻‍♀️ Getting started with Azure Data Factory for Dynamics 365 consultants by JOPX (Consider Power Platform Dataflows as well)

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Apps Portals - header and footer caching by Alex Shlega

🦸🏻‍♀️ Make Simple Changes To The HTML On Your Form Templates In D365 Marketing by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ 2021 April DC Chapter Meeting by Kylie Kiser

🦸🏻‍♀️ Omnichannel for Customer Service - Simplify Navigation by Neil Parkhurst

🦸🏻‍♀️ Microsoft Power Platform Certifications Dos and Don'ts by Carina Claesson

🦸🏻‍♀️ Configure Notes in PowerApps Portal by Vaishali Vyas

Tools & Code

👩‍💻 Power Platform Developers – what does the future hold? by Alex Shlega

👩‍💻 How To Setup Bootstrap On Your PCF Project by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo

Videos

Podcasts

Lisa and Megan review the Microsoft Business Applications Launch, news on Power Automate and Power Apps Portals, some awesome content from the community and some upcoming events.

User adoption is always a hot topic around the community, so this week Liz, Ashley, and Merlin wade into the topic. They cover how to define and measure adoption, the importance of having high adoption, and a few different strategies and approaches to help boost yours.

Finding out about Kylie’s love of knitting (some of the things she’s created over time too), discussing pizza and monkey, and what happens when we’re not careful enough about system security! Cue a rescue mission at an unexpected time!

Events & Webinars

Thursday 22nd of April from 9:30 AM - 17:30 PM UK time

During this all-day event, a lot of sessions will be there. Make sure to check out the link for all the details.

Tuesday 20th April 2021 8PM UK time

This weeks' Virtual Power Group Scotland event is all about Omnichannel for Dynamics 365.

Out of the blue

Last week, Microsoft announced a vast new set of capabilities that provide enterprise-grade application lifecycle management for the data sources used within canvas apps and cloud flows. Environment variables are now natively built into authoring experiences across canvas apps and flows as well as solution and solution import experiences.

Power Automate Desktop comes with new features in April 2021 release, including the image-based recorder, improved interaction with Java applications and an enhanced action copying mechanism.

The Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event is over. This blog contains a summary of robotics process automation (RPA) updates in Power Automate.

👩‍💻 Product Update: F&O apps now available in ISV Studio! by Zankar Desai

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