Power Platform Weekly - Issue #71

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

The announcements from last week include new Dataverse Auditing features and general availability of code components for portals as well as of portals support for Query data using portals Web API.

We could also read about what is available as early access features and got a reminder that now we can opt-in to 2022 Release Wave 1. Goodbye classic Advanced Find, modern Advanced Find is here.

The Custom Connector family keeps on growing, 20 new Independent Publisher Connectors in November and December.

In case you missed it, this is a reminder that you can join Zero to Hero lessons, have a look at the schedule to see what is next and in case you see a lesson you are sad that you missed, here is happy news! Content is also available on YouTube.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

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📰 Articles

Featured articles from CRM Tip of the Day, Jukka Niiranen, Benedikt Bergmann and David Rivard

Power Automate Gymnastics Reference Guide

🦸🏻‍♀️ CRM Tip of the Day shares a collection of Power Automate expressions you didn’t know you needed until you found them. Everyone keeps a stash of useful Power Automate expressions, now so will you.

Modern advanced find test drive

🦸🏻‍♀️ Jukka Niiranen shows us how the new 2022 wave 1 feature for Model-driven Power Apps performs when compared to the classic Advanced Find tool from the XRM era.

Connections and Connection References explained

🦸🏻‍♀️ Benedikt Bergmann explains both Connections as well as Connection References within Power Automate, and how they fit together in the context of deployment.

Related Record Filtering with the Lookup Dropdown PCF

👩‍💻 In the latest release of David Rivard's Lookup Dropdown PCF control for Dataverse, he added a new feature that adds support for related record filtering. In this article he shows us how to use it.

Other articles

🚀 Power Platform Admin Center: Settings by Heidi Neuhauser

👩‍💻 BI and AI architecture hero for Dynamics 365 with Azure Synapse by Aurélien CLERE

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Dataverse: Power Automate vs Plug-ins by Allan De Castro

👩‍💻 Azure API Management for Dynamics 365 F&O by Adrià Ariste Santacreu

🦸🏻‍♀️ Auditing Enhancements for Dynamics 365 CRM in Power Platform Admin Center by Priyesh Wagh

🦸🏻‍♀️ Automatically move Dataverse email attachments to SharePoint document library using cloud flow (part 6 of 7) by Linn Zaw Win

🦸🏻‍♀️ XPath to the rescue in a Power Automate integration by Antti Pajunen (Forward Forever)

👩‍💻 Including additional JS files to your PCF Control by Andew Butenko

👩‍💻 Using Azure CLI to authenticate with Power Apps by Natraj Yegnaraman

👩‍💻 Using the Dataverse Rest Builder to build rest requests by Carl de Souza

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

🚀 The guys run through all the ways data can be exported from Power BI, with a few hot takes in between on is it always a positive outcome from consumers.

🧭 Every single person who has ever looked at licensing for Microsoft Dynamics 365 or Power Platform has definitely had questions. Jay Lendl from Microsoft helps explain the different licenses available, the intention behind each, and gives us a sneak peek into what might happen next with the Team Member license.

👩‍💻 Daryl and Scott interview Mike Stall, Power Fx Architect at Microsoft, and chat about the Canvas Apps GitHub Integration.

📅 Events & Webinars

📅 February 16th - In this week's D365PPUG Birmingham session, Mike Chappell will give you all ins and outs about Synapse Link! Don't miss it!

📅 February 16th - This week, there's another Power Apps Community Call! One of the subjects will be "Spice up your Power Apps with SVGs".

📅 February 17th - In another edition of Zero To Hero, Swedish superstar Sara Lagerquist will be doing ANOTHER session on business logic! Don’t miss it!

📅 April 6th - 8th - European Power Platform Conference just announced the programme for the conference in Berlin, Germany.

💙 Out of the Blue

🦸🏻‍♀️🚀👩‍💻 There are a lot of new auditing features available now. This helps a lot with storage management!

🦸🏻‍♀️🚀 New exciting enhancements to Process advisor have been made in January 2022 to make it even easier and faster to visualize your processes. Check out more in the blog!

🦸🏻‍♀️🚀👩‍💻 The Power Apps 2022 April Release Wave 1 updates for Model-driven apps are now here! Make sure to check out all the cool new updates!

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 20 new Independent Publisher connectors were published in November and December. Read more about the connectors and the publishers in this post!

👩‍💻 Power Apps portals Web API is now GA! This helps you with querying data in Power Apps Portals.

👩‍💻 Code components for portals are now GA! If you haven't checked this out, please do!

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 A lot of people asked for this, but it's finally here! Modern advanced find for model-driven apps!

🦸🏻‍♀️🧭 Companies receive thousands of quotes requests which are manually processed. With Microsoft AI Builder, this can be automated so your workforce can focus on other higher-value tasks.

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 The general availability (GA) of Export Power BI report to file API is here! This API allows you to export Power BI reports to the following file formats: PDF, PPTX (PowerPoint), and PNG, by using a REST call.

🦸🏻‍♀️ The general availability for Power Virtual Agents for US Government customers is here!

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