Power Platform Weekly - Issue #77

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

General Availability (GA) of Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio Code and February refresh for Power Platform CLI was announced last week. Another GA announcement was Service principal profiles in Power BI Embedded.

February brought us 23 new Independent Publisher Connectors!

You can now try out the new home for exploring and building AI models with AI Builder.

Thanks for reading!

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📰 Articles

Featured articles from Ben den Blanken, Carsten Groth and Temmy Wahyu Raharjo

Task Groups help you guide work in Business Process Flow

🦸🏻‍♀️ Business Process Flow help you guide work. But sometimes the stages gets cluttered with a lot of fields. Ben den Blanken likes to use "Task Groups" instead!

Power Platform | Dataverse Treasures Unpeeled

🦸🏻‍♀️ In Carsten Groth's previous article on Dataverse hidden treasures, he started to unpeel the service and provide more insights on those features that Dataverse should be additionally known for. This week he takes on compliance, security, and integration.

Dataverse: Duplicate Detection Rules vs Keys

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Temmy Wahyu Raharjo shows us several ways to make your Dataverse data as clean as possible. Out-of-the-box, you can create alternate keys or you can implement Duplicate Detection Rules. Or you can implement custom validation using plugins to achieve more dynamic conditions.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Apps Phone Number Formatting In A Form (Input Mask) by Matthew Devaney

🦸🏻‍♀️ Image Classification model by Microsoft Lobe in Power Apps – Part 1 by Inogic

🦸🏻‍♀️ Dataverse meets Teams: my presentation at #TeamsNation 2022 by Jukka Niiranen

🦸🏻‍♀️ Tip #1433: How to list all Dataverse tables in style by George Doubinski (CRM Tip of the Day)

🦸🏻‍♀️ Enable Power Automate Pane in Canvas Apps Studio | Preview by Priyesh Wagh

🦸🏻‍♀️ Fluent UI Combo Box Control – Better than classic? by Hardit Bhatia

🦸🏻‍♀️ New Sales Reports In Dynamics 365 Sales by Dian Taylor

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

🤵🏻 Daryl and Scott interview Carl Cookson, supposedly (Ex) Developer & fellow MVP, and chat about the new XrmToolBox tool - BPF To Visio Builder.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Integrate Power BI Premium Gen2 inherently with Microsoft's collaboration analytics stack — including the new Power BI app for Microsoft Teams that makes it easier to access, share, and act on insights as you work, the latest AI-driven visualization capabilities with Smart Narratives, and achieving near real-time analytics over your enterprise data using Hybrid Tables in Power BI Premium Gen2.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Adam Cunningham is the Solutions Architect at Link Housing. In 2021, he won the PowerHousing Award for Excellence in Customer Service and Business Support.

📅 Events & Webinars

📅 March 31st - Professional Administration ALM and CoE is yet again the subject of Zero to Hero. ALM wizard Wael Hamze will be the presenter of this session as well!

📅 April 6th - 8th - European Power Platform Conference is just around the corner! In just a week, it will happen in Berlin!

💙 Out of the Blue

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Microsoft announced easy to use workflow automation powered by Power Automate directly within the Teams Store. Creating new automated workflows can all be done with new pre-configured templates in the Workflows section of the store. These workflows help address and manage day-to-day tasks and make your day run more smoothly.

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Microsoft announced the general availability of Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio Code in addition to the monthly Power Platform CLI refresh. Beyond just the terminal interface for the Power Platform CLI in Visual Studio Code, Microsoft has added some graphical elements, that lets users take advantage of the real estate that Visual Studio Code offers.

🧭 Microsoft has been positioned as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms. Microsoft has also been positioned furthest to the right for Completeness of Vision and highest in the Ability to Execute within the Leaders quadrant for the 4th consecutive year.

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 The AI Builder team announced the release of AI Builder’s new home page. It is available at https://aka.ms/tryaibuilder. Your feedback has been heard and the AI Builder team made a complete redesign so you can better understand which model fits your scenario.

👩‍💻🚀 Service principal profiles allow the ISV to build a scalable application that enables better customer data isolation and establishes tighter security boundaries between customers.

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 23 new Independent Publisher connectors were published in February. These connectors are available in Power Automate, Power Apps, and Azure Logic Apps. 

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