Power Platform Boost Podcast

News

• New FetchXML Features and Documentation by Mark Carrington
• new Microsoft Power Platform security features 
• Serving up a seamless deployment by Anna Black
• Environment vs. Source code centric ALM approach by Benedikt Bergmann
• Block Unmanaged Customisations by Parvez Ghumra
• Pipelines for All Public Preview
• Creating Service Principals Really Easily Using Pac Cli by Carl de Souza
• What every Admin needs to know by Michael Roth and Craig White 
• add a Camera Control on a Power Pages page by namasi Naveretnam
• FetchXML improve for us to achieve more by Jonas Rapp
• Back to the XrmToolBox Basics - XrmToolCast
• Redeploy past solution versions using pipelines
• Working with solution dependencies for objects made easier
• Chris Huntingford - OnAirInTheCloud
• How to Accomplish Far More While Working Less (ft. Cal Newport) - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast

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Not a lot of news and updates this time, because this week, we have been busy at MVP Summit in Seattle, and then this weekend we traveled to Vancouver for the Canadian Power Platform Summit. That's two summits in a row! Join us from the AV studio at Microsoft's offices in Vancouver as we chat about the #MVPbuzz of the week that we have had and why we think it's valuable to go to the MVP summit. We also recap the Canadian Power Platform Summit and share our experience with the first of many # CPPSs to come.

MVP Summit

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MVP Communities

#MVPbuzz on socials

• #mvpbuzz on LinkedIn
• #mvpbuzz on X

Canadian Power Platform Summit

Canadian Power Platform Summit

• #CPPS24 on LinkedIn
• #CPPS24 on X

Events

BALE - Business Applications Launch Event, April 10th, Online

COMMUNITY MENTORSHIP — Zero to Hero Academy, March 19th to May 30th, Online

ColorCloud, April 18-19th, Hamburg

Microsoft Build - May 21-23, Seattle and online

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🎉 ONE YEAR OF BOOST!! 🎉 

Time flies when you are having fun, right? We still can't believe it has been a whole year since we started this podcast already, we are having so much fun! 

We want to give a huge 😍 THANK YOU 😍 to each and every one of you who have listened, watched, shared, liked, and commented this past year. It means the world to us. As a token of gratitude, we decided to give you a gift. It's a ✨ BONUS ✨ episode a bit out of the ordinary. We hope you like it! We sure had fun making it - as always! 

❤️ From us to you with love ❤️ 

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Join us as we cover whether we would trust Michael Roth and Chris Huntingford to govern our environments, how Nick kicked Thomas Sandsør out of his comfort zone at ACDC2024, how Zoe Wilson and Kevin McDonnell are breaking copilot myths, how the detective Vivian Voss discovered how Customer Insights break if you enable blocking unmanaged customizations, how Mónica Perez showed us how to make your Canvas Apps optimize for devices, and how Power Platform & Dynamics CRM Tip Of The Day finally are back in the game! Enjoy! :D 

News

• Ignite Refresher (w/ Michael Roth and Chris Huntingford) - Low Code Approach
• Use scenarios to implement healthy ALM with Microsoft Power Apps
• Call SQL Server stored procedures directly in Power Fx (Preview) 
• ACDC 2024 – Why this is the ultimate hackathon – CRM Keeper by Thomas Sandsør
• Ep 11 - Busting Copilot Myths - The Copilot Connection by Zoe Wilson and Kevin McDonnell
• Tip #18 Unmanaged customizations - Preview that breaks it all in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights-Journeys by Vivian Voss 
• Announcing General Availability for Shared Device Mode for Power Apps on iOS 
• New feature for canvas app: Optimize screen for devices (preview) by Mónica Perez
• Tip #1445: Date picker in Power Pages revisited | Power Platform & Dynamics CRM Tip Of The Day

Events

Power Pages Zero to Hero by Victor Dantas

Canadian Power Platform Summit, March 16th, Vancouver

ColorCloud, April 18-19th, Hamburg

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In this episode, Ulrikke is recording from 25 degrees in Spain and Nick from -10 in Canada. We talk about the new feature where you can block unmanaged customizations, the new Power Pages concepts diagram from Dani Kahil, how you can deploy a copilot to SharePoint with single sign-on, a collection of copilot learnings from Katerina Chernevskaya and Yannick Reekmans' new blog post about how to call the Dataverse/D365 REST API from Power Automate. 

 

News 

• Announcing preview for blocking unmanaged customizations
• Block unmanaged customizations in environments
• Microsoft Power Pages – Concepts Diagram
• Deploy a custom copilot to SharePoint, with a seamless single sign-on experience
• 31 Copilot learnings by Katerina Chernevskaya on LinkedIn
• Age column in Dataverse (#BOOSTquest) 
• Call any Dataverse/Dynamics 365 REST API from Power Automate - Yannick Reekmans

 

Events

Canadian Power Platform Summit, March 16th, Vancouver

ColorCloud, April 18-19th, Hamburg

DynamicsCon LIVE, May 13-16th, Denver

DynamicsMinds, May 27-29th, Slovenia

European Power Platform Conference, June 11-13th, Brussels
 

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Join us as we recap ACDC 2024 - a three-day hackathon competition where we went head over the weekend. We also talk about a new decision tree for Power Pages, Solution layers, FetchXML, concurrency control in Power Automate, Microsoft Copilot, AI Builder, and Microsoft AI Tour. We are so excited about the Canadian Power Platform Summit, our joint session at EPPC, and all the other conferences we get to go to this year. 

ACDC 2024

• Arctic Cloud Developer Challenge
• Peaches Mini Games - Peaches of Itera - ACDC 2024
• Donkey Kong Koders submission for the ACDC2024 (Youtube)

News

• Tino R. on LinkedIn: Power Pages List | 33 comments
• Power Pages vs WordPress vs Custom web app by Andrew Grischenko
• Solution Layers Part 2: A Mystery Unveiled by Nati Turtledove
• Hidden features of FetchXml – Hacking Power Platform by Erik Donker
• PrettifyMyWebApi for Microsoft Dataverse with Erik Donker - XrmToolCast
• Concurrency Control – Apply to each for improving performance by Nishant Rana
• Bringing the full power of Copilot to more people and businesses - The Official Microsoft Blog
• How to look for keywords in PDF documents with Power Automate By Matthias Schmitz
• Microsoft AI Tour

Events

• Canadian Power Platform Summit, March 16th, Vancouver
• ColorCloud, April 18-19th, Hamburg
• EPPC, June 11-13th, Brussels

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Join us as we talk through the parts of the 2024 Release Wave 1 for Power Platform highlights for each of the products and aspects of Power Platform. And, isn't there something missing? Find out by listening to this freshly squeezed episode - or, pre-recorded, so maybe not so fresh 🤪 

And a disclaimer; this episode was prerecorded based on the pre-released release notes, and these are living documents, so changes might have been made between the recording of this episode and the publication of the release notes. 

Link to the release notes: https://learn.microsoft.com/power-platform/release-plan/2024wave1/


Power Apps 

• Modernize maker experience security settings (p. 15) PP April
• Makers can share their tables and apps as simple as sharing a Word Document (p. 15) PP June
• Visualize and work across complex data relationships with support from Copilot (p. 23) PP - April

Power Pages 

• Perform website actions using Microsoft Power Platform CLI (p. 35) PP April
• File upload enhancements for Power Pages sites (p. 35) GA May

Power Automate

• Intelligent license recommendation (p. 44) PP April
• Ingest process data from customers' data lake (p. 49) GA April

Microsoft Copilot Studio

• Import and export topics across copilots and environments (p. 60) PP May
• Use interactive voice response (IVR) with Omnichannel for Customer Service (p. 62) GA April
• Use Copilot Studio in United Arab Emirates (UAE), South America, Germany, South Korea, Norway, and South Africa (p. 61) GA Sept

AI Builder 

• Enable pay-as-you-go for AI Builder (p. 73) PP Sept
• New AI capacity management experience for admins (p.69) PP March, GA May
• Author power cards with GPT prompts (p. 73) PP May

Microsoft Dataverse

• Efficient processing for apps with delegation in Dataverse (p. 83) PP March, GA April
• Associate activities with multiple related records (p. 89) PP December 4th 2023, GA April
• Scan files and attachments for viruses and malware (p. 84) PP June, GA August

Governance and administration 

• Take advantage of a modern, user interface (p. 102) PP April

(PP = Private Preview - GA = General Availability)
 

Events

• Arctic Cloud Developer Challenge
• Canadian Power Platform Summit
• ColorCloud
• DynamicsCon LIVE
• DynamicsMinds

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GAME ON! We talk about game development on the Power Platform and if you are a participant at Arctic Cloud Developer Challenge, you don't want to miss this episode. Wink Wink ;) We also talk about Data Activator for Microsoft Fabric, Marc Smith's 30 day mentoring challenge, and Dynamics Hotdish's episode about Rethinking Azure DevOps Practices and Insights with Neil Benson. We finish of by going through which conferences we are going to in the coming months. 

• 365.Training - my digest feed 
• Get started using Data Activator - Microsoft Fabric
• Fabric February 2024 | Norway's #1 Microsoft Fabric Conference!
• Navigate between screens with the Power Apps TabLi... By Egregorich
• nz365guy - Mentor - Coach - Trainer by Mark Smith
• Agile Insights with Neil Benson: Rethinking Azure DevOps Practices - Dynamics Hotdish by Ashley Steiner and Ali Nelson
• Successful Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps by Neil Benson 
• Power Apps Tracks Santa by David Wyatt
• Top-down 2D game engine proof of concept by mhopus
• Making a Game in PowerApps – PowerPush: Dungeon Explorer 3000! by The Chris Kent
• I made a 3D GAME in POWER APPS 🔥 by Scott Durow

 Events

• Arctic Cloud Developer Challenge
• Canadian Power Platform Summit
• ColorCloud
• DynamicsCon LIVE
• DynamicsMinds

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In this episode, Nick and Ulrikke reflect on the year and discuss their favorite updates and features from the Microsoft Power Platform. They highlight the impact of copilot and AI, the benefits of solution pipelines and managed environments, and the potential of Project Sophia. They also discuss the value of applied skills assessments and the importance of community events. The hosts share their personal experiences and plans for the future, expressing gratitude for the support of their listeners.

Our favourite features

• Microsoft Power AI
• Getting Started with Copilot for Power Platform: A Guide for Computer Science Students - Microsoft Community Hub
• Microsoft Project Sophia – Microsoft Adoption
• Steve has a Fifth Annual Chat with Charles Lamanna - Steve Mordue MVP
• Overview of pipelines in Power Platform
• Use scenarios to implement healthy ALM with Microsoft Power Apps
• Low Code Power Pages ALM with Power Platform Pipelines - Ulrikke Akerbæk
• Managed Environments overview
• View and download Dataverse analytics
• Create and manage automated processes by using Power Automate - Applied Skills
• Create and manage canvas apps with Power Apps - Applied Skills

Events

• Arctic Cloud Developer Challenge
• Canadian Power Platform Summit
• ColorCloud
• European Power Platform Conference
• Nordic Summit
• Microsoft Power Platform Conference

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This time we are all over the recent blog posts, where we highlight content from Cloud Advocates like Scott Durow and community champs like Matt Devaney and Luise Freese. And, we cover the ongoing war on "Unmanaged vs. Managed solutions" and provide a bit of context and our humble opinions.

News

• Accelerate developer productivity with Microsoft Power Platform by Scott Durow
• Pro Dev Mailing List: Power Platform for Professional Developers
• What’s new: Power Apps November 2023 Feature Update
• Named Formulas in canvas apps
• Intro to custom functions in Power Apps by Luise Freese
• Extract Invoice Details by Matthew Devaney
• Are Power Pages licenses too expensive? - Technomancy
• Microsoft Copilot Studio implementation guide by Henry Jammes
• Build your next application on Dataverse by Srikumar Nair

Managed vs. Unmanaged debate

• Steve Mordue MVP on LinkedIn
• Why use managed solutions » Benedikt's Power Platform Blog

Events Canadian Power Platform Summit

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