Power Platform Weekly - Issue #46

Articles

In this article, Nick Doelman describes that if you follow best practices and have been diligent in setting up Table Permissions, then you really should have nothing to worry about.

Over a thousand Portals were discovered with a security setting misconfigured. Why did this data leak happen and what can we learn from it?

🦸🏻‍♀️ Identifying security loop-holes in Power Apps Portals by Danish Naglekar

🦸🏻‍♀️ Large migration – lessons learned by Gustaf Westerlund

🦸🏻‍♀️ 2021 Release Wave 2 | Part 2: Customer Service by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ Organisation setup: Workers (D365 HR) by Malin Martnes

🦸🏻‍♀️ Upgrading a solution vs updating a solution – what is the difference? by Alex Shlega

🦸🏻‍♀️ Step by step – LinkedIn Sales Navigator integration with Dynamics 365 Sales by Nishant Rana

🦸🏻‍♀️ Use of new column options settings in grid view page by Inogic

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Apps Display A User Photo Or Initials by Matthew Devaney

🦸🏻‍♀️ Tip #1408: When tomorrow comes in Power Automate by George Doubinski 

🦸🏻‍♀️ Dataflows - Common issues, limitations & recommendations by Roma Gupta

🦸🏻‍♀️ New Subject Control for the subject entity in Dynamics 365 Customer Service (2021 Release Wave 2) by Nishant Rana

🦸🏻‍♀️ Asynchronous data operations in Dataverse from a canvas app by Raphaël Pothin

🦸🏻‍♀️ Recommendation in Business Rules in Dynamics 365 by Priyesh Wagh

🦸🏻‍♀️ Hunting for that elusive dependency by Alex Shlega 

Tools & Code

Temmy Wahyu Raharjo shows us how to create a Custom API to get a file from File data type in CRM. This makes it easier to work with the File data type.

👩‍💻 App secret valid longer than 24 months by Benedikt Bergmann

🦸🏻‍♀️ How to create Custom Connector to get the flow run history by Dharanidharan Balasubramaniam

👩‍💻 Migrating Microsoft Dataverse Access Team Templates via Azure DevOps by Joe Griffin

Videos

Podcasts

Today, Ben tells Scott about his experience locking himself out of his Azure AD tenant and then they discuss recently GA'd features for Azure Storage including blob inventory, last access time tracking, and Archive storage events.

Lisa and Megan have an in memoriam moment for Jess Militar, first look at wave 2 2021 early access features, Power Platform Admin Centre functionality, community content and so much more!

Daryl and Scott interview Danish Naglekar, fellow MVP and a previous guest, and chat about his newest tool, the Dataverse DevTools for VsCode.  Other topics: Building VsCode Extensions The PCF Builder Bearer Tokens.

Events & Webinars

This is a free event driven by communities around the world, for anyone who wants to learn more about the Microsoft Power Platform.

Date: 1st of September 2021 | 4:00 PM - 7:30 PM BST

Speaker: Tomasz Poszytek

Out of the blue

With this public preview, notifications can be sent to users within the model-driven app and are displayed using a notification center and notification toasts.

With the announcement earlier in this year’s Build conference, you may already have heard about Power Apps Ideas, AI-powered assistance to help anyone create apps using natural language. Now we’re excited to tell you that this feature is now officially in public preview.

You can now create and use regular expression (regex) entities in your Power Virtual Agents bot.

Microsoft release a sample custom connector with OAuth authentication for ServiceNow. The original connector uses basic authentication.

This post describes a lightweight JIT app built on Power Platform.

Announcing new features for Power BI Goals, including automated status rules and improved filtering.

The all-new metrics app for premium capacities is now available in public preview! Please be sure to check the docs for detailed installation instructions.

The on-premises data gateway (standard and personal mode) release for August 2021 is now available.

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