Power Platform Boost Podcast

News

• PCF: Direct embedding of Controls into SiteMap by Andrew Butenko
• Rich text fields are deprecated by Scott Martin
• ✉️📮 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲: 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 – 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬' 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 by Anna Black
• Dark mode in Power Pages 🌚 by Calum Harrison
• 🚀 New PCF Component: Azure Blob File Manager for Power Pages 📁 by Richard A. Wilson
• Using Map file in ALM by Benedikt Bergmann
• 🚀 Unlocking the Power of Automated Testing in Power Platform: People, Process, and Tooling 🚀 by Grant Archibald 
• Extend the Power Platform by Vibe Coding Python by Chris Harper
• What is "Vibe Coding"? Here's how I do it... by Matthew Berman
• Explaining MCP's: Model Contect Protocol by Sandy Peng
• Embracing AI with Microsoft Copilot - 365 Community Online by Mark Christie
• Overview of the developer portal in Azure API Management - Azure API Management | Microsoft Learn 
• Celebrating 50 years of Microsoft | Bill Gates
• Power Platform This and That by Rory Neary

Events

ColorCloud
April 24-25th
Ulrikke's Power Pages Workshop: "Power Pages: From creation to go-live!"
Session with Andy Wingate: "Business Central + Power Pages = TRUE" 

DynamicsCon
May 13th - 16th
Nick's session on "Crash course in Power Platform Pipelines" 

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News

• Announcing the winners of the 2025 Powerful Devs Hack Together | Power Platform Developer Blog
• The Future of Automation: AI Agents and Copilot Studio? - Power Addict Ben by Ben den Blanken
• #Flexible Height / Width controls inside #Containers by Clarissa Gillingham
• How to develop AI Apps and Agents in Azure - A Visual Guide | All things Azure 
• New version of Iconator! by Tanguy TOUZARD
• Customer Insights – Journey March Madness by Malin Martnes
• Power Pages: Inserting Content Snippets in Design Studio by Nick Doelman
• The NEW #Dataverse git integration by Matthew Devaney
• Do you still enjoy reading blogs? by Jussi Roine
• Ulrikke onAirInTheCloud

Emotional rollercoaster in Insta

• How would AI take over the world
• Dad jokes
  
  

Events

ColorCloud
April 24-25th
Ulrikke's Power Pages Workshop: "Power Pages: From creation to go-live!"
Session with Andy Wingate: "Business Central + Power Pages = TRUE"

DynamicsCon
May 13th - 16th
Nick's session on "Crash course in Power Platform Pipelines"

Nordic Summit
Mentor program
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• Introducing Managed Availability for Power Platform
• How to: Use the portal Web API
• Company Logo API with Power Pages by Tino Rabe
• Event portal enhancements by Malin Martnes
• Call for Speakers - Nordic Summit
• What’s new in Power Apps: February 2025
• Making sense of Data Exploration Agent by Jukka Niiranen
• Using Copilot to visualize data in views by Jeroen Scheper
• Resources for getting started with Microsoft Copilot by Femke Cornelissen
• Use agents to create social media posts by Femke Cornelissen
• Power Platform Pipelines: Perform A Delegated Deployment by Matthew Devaney
• The Complete Power Platform Pipelines ALM Setup Guide by Matthew Devaney
• Power Platform Magazine 
• Portallunsj
• Powerful-Devs-Hack-Together
• ColorCloud Hamburg 2025 | ColorChallenge
• Power CAT Tools
• Unexpected Hats - Guest: Ulrikke Akerbæk on Sprint Zero

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News

• Power Platform Low-Code Plugins: A Step Forward or Sideways?, Thomas Sandsør
• Generate process maps for multi flow automations (2025 Release Wave 1)
• 🚀 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥-𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐬? 𝐋𝐞𝐭’𝐬 𝐅𝐢𝐱 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭!⁣ 🚀, Anna Black
• Challenge 037 | Plan Designer, Miguel Verweij
• Style Your Fluent UI 9 PCFs for Power Apps, Diana Bilkelbach
• Power Pages: Site Settings as Environment variables and Power Pages: Configure Entra External ID, Nick Doelman
• Using the Capture liquid tag to generate dynamic FetchXML queries in Power Pages Web Templates, Michel Mendes
• Engineered Code - Blog - Power Pages: Why Liquid and FetchXML Is Better Than Web API for Read Operations, Nicholas Hayduk
• Power Pages Quick Tips Series, Power Platform Learners
• Smooth UI or not? Create Word and Excel templates, Jeroen Scheper
• Nathan Rose on LinkedIn: New Automation Paradigm, Nathan Rose
• Integrate Copilot Studio agents with Microsoft Entra External ID, Low Code Revolution
• Power Platform Adoption, Hamish Sheild

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News

• What is your biggest challenge with Power Apps graphics? by Tolu Victor
• 6 additional modern controls in Canvas! by Claudio Romano
• Power FX Functions = Low Code Plugns by Matthew Devaney
• Functions in Microsoft Dataverse
• Megan V. Walker post "Finally"
• SharePoint vs. Dataverse by Sean Astrakhan
• Copilot API's for PCF and client API developers by Hemant Gaur
• Private Preview Signup for Agent APIs in Power Apps
• Powerful Devs Conference 2025 - Watch it back!
• Powerful Devs Hack Together
• 10 Lessons to Get Started Building AI Agents
• Building Microsoft AI Agents: Which Tool Should You Use?
• So do you want to become an MVP? by Agnius Bartninkas
• Simplify Microsoft Power Platform deployments by using pipelines

Events

Canadian Power Platform Summit
March 21-22
PPBOOST15 -> 15% off general admission + workshops 

ColorCloud
April 24-25, 2025
Ulrikke's Workshop: "Power Pages: From creation to go-live!"
Session with Andy Wingate: "Business Central + Power Pages = TRUE"

DynamicsCon
May 13th - 16th, 2025
Nick's session on "Crash course in Power Platform Pipelines"
Session with Angeliki Patsiavou "The Ultimate Power Slam: Dynamics 365 vs Power Pages Portals"

DynamicsMinds
May 26-28, 2025
Nick's session on Burnout, Powerlifting and mental health
Portals Cage Match: Power Pages vs The World 💪 (with Mats and George) 

European Power Platform Conference
June 16-19, 2025
Power Pages Top Gun Workshop with Victor Dantas
Power Pages Crash Course: Copilot Edition!
Power Pages Top 10 Tips and Tricks!

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 From MS

• Unlock new possibilities by customizing Copilot chat in your apps with Copilot Studio (Preview) by  Hemant Gaur
• Work with existing tables in data workspace by Travis Shu 

From community

• Battleship game in #PowerApps by Hardit Bhatia
• Use Power Pages instead of Model-Driven Apps for your 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 projects by Sean Astrakhan 
• List More than 250 Power Automate Flows, Filter and Delete by Amey Holden
• Dataverse Activity Tables by Nari Turtledove
• Add the Insights tab to Contact and Lead forms without editing Form XML by Amey Holden
• AI poem by Rory Neary 

Tallinn recap
Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn
"Top 10 Copilot Use-Cases from real customer projects" - Daniel Rohregger
"Master Custom Pages in Model-driven Apps" - Cathrine Bruvold
"How to work like a brainiac in M365 – a no-brainer" - Caroline Kallin
"Overcoming Information Overload Or How to Build A Second Brain" - Pauline Kolde

ACDC recap
Arctic Cloud Developer Challenge
Blog posts by Itera Power Potters
Final Submission from video Itera Power Potters

Upcoming Events

Canadian Power Platform Summit
March 21-22nd
Tickets on sale - January 1st 

ColorCloud
April 24-25th
Ulrikke's Power Pages Workshop: "Power Pages: From creation to go-live!"
Session with Andrew Wingate: "Business Central + Power Pages = TRUE" 

DynamicsCon
May 13th - 16th, 2025
Nick's session on "Crash course in Power Platform Pipelines"

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We have read through the 2025 Release Wave 1 notes for Power Platform, and we bring the highlights directly to you. 🤓 

We take you through the notes, top to bottom, and cover all the products 🫧 and the key investment areas 🌱 for them from March to October 2025. We mention the features that stood out to us ✨, and of course, we get deeper into the details of our personal favourites 😻 

Join us for an hour, and you will know the broader strokes of the release notes and get some good insights into what's coming for the Power Platform in the next 9 months. 

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Power Platform 2025 release wave 1

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News

• Power Platform Plan Designer (Preview) by Nick Doelman
• How NOT to use Copilot on LinkedIn by Femke Cornelissen
• 25 experts predict how AI will change business and life in 2025 featuring Charles Lamanna by Fast Company
• Power Platform Weekly - Special Edition 4th anniversary by Carina M. Claesson, Daniel Laskewitz, Ed Gonzales, and Magnus Sørensen.
• By Nathan Rose:
  • Here are 3 unique #PowerFx traits that make it a delight to work with 
  • PowerFx vs Excel
  • PowerFx has AI in it's DNA!
• Hydrate Development Environments via Pipelines by Matt Collins-Jones
• Preview PDF files from Base64 content in Power Pages using the PDFJs library by Michel Mendes
• Power Automate Flow To Host A Web Page/Web Application by Matthew Devaney
• Website Tracking In Realtime Marketing by Megan V. Walker
• Looking to get Power Platform Certified in 2025? by Howdang Rashid

Events 

Tallinn Technology Town Hall
January 30-31st
Developers guide to Power Pages - Nick 

Canadian Power Platform Summit
March 21-22nd
Tickets on sale - January 1st

ColorCloud
April 24-25th
Ulrikke's Workshop: "Power Pages: From creation to go-live!"
Session with Andrew Wingate: "Business Central + Power Pages = TRUE" 

DynamicsMinds
May 26-28th
Nick's session on Powerlifting and mental health

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News

• Christmas Song: Hey, that's a great sing a long! 😄 (btw - NOT created by Copilot) by CRMK
• #PowerPaltformAdventCalendar by Rory Neary
• Get started with prompt library | Microsoft Learn
• Autonomous agents: a new evolution of apps | Dive in the Power Platform and gain power! by Eric Sauve
• Resco brings a new hierarchy control PCF to Power Platform | Resco by Lukas Lesko
• Power Pages and Cloud Flow - deployment fun? by Eugene van Staden
• Beyond the Buzz: Why Power Automate Still Outshines Copilot by Heidi Neuhauser
• GitHub Copilot Free is here in Visual Studio - Visual Studio Blog by Rhea Patel
• GitHub - GuidoPreite/DRB: Dataverse REST Builder by Guido Preite
• SQL 4 CDS v9.5 Released by Mark Carrington

Events

Arctic Cloud Developer Challenge
3 day hackathon - Harry Potter theme
Oslo, January 23rd - 26th  

Tallinn Technology Town Hall
January 30-31, 2025
Developers guide to Power Pages - Nick 

Canadian Power Platform Summit
March 21-22
Tickets on sale - January 1st

ColorCloud
April 24-25, 2025
Ulrikke's Power Pages Workshop and session on Power Pages and BC 

DynamicsMinds
May 26-28, 2025
Nick's session on Powerlifting and mental health

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News

• Build Your First Autonomous Agent with Copilot Studio by Lisa Crosbie
• JavaScript Cheatsheet by Dani Kahil From Keith Atherton on LinkedIn
• Power Apps - Model Driven Apps - JavaScript cheatsheet by Dani Kahill
• JavaScript Code Snippets for Dynamics 365 - Cheat Sheet by Fredrik Engseth
• React and Fluent based virtual code components are now generally available 
• What’s new in Power Apps: November 2024 Feature Update
• Announcing exciting updates to managed environments licensing 
• Mark (attendee) and Jonas (volunteer) - Nordic Summit Podcast
• XrmToolCast
• .Net Dust: PowerFx Formatting If Statement Idiosyncrasies by Daryl Labar
• Early Bound Generator  · XrmToolBox by Daryl Labar
• Finally, I can take off the kid gloves by Steve Mordue

Advent Calendars

🎄Power Platform Community Spotlight advent calendar by Rory Neary

🎅Power Platform Learners - YouTube

☃️Day 5: Pro Code Approach for Power Pages – Custom CSS and JavaScript by Nikita Chernevskiy

🎁A Feature-a-Day with Copilot Studio: Monthly Mastery by Katerina Chernevskaya

🤶Festive Tech Calendar 2024

✨#powerpages Advent Calendar by Tino Rabe

⭐️ Community Appreciation ⭐️ Advent Calendar Edition by Bülent Altinsoy

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