Power Platform Boost Podcast

Ulrikke and Nick are back recording in the same room with another #superexciting episode of the Power Platform BOOST Podcast. Microsoft Ignite was last week and community members everywhere may have got caught up in a game of "take a drink" every time the word "copilot" was mentioned. (Seriously - please do drink responsibly). The dynamic duo talks about copilots, AI, payment gateways, Power App improvements, community newsletters, and discord channels.

Show Notes

• Discord Power Platform LevelUP
• XrmToolCast: PrettifyMyWebApi for Microsoft Dataverse with Erik Donker Scott Durow and Daryl LaBar
• AI Unleashed: Smart Prompting Revolution with Jon Russell (JonDoesFlow), Mike Gowland, and Chris Huntingford

Newsletters

• Power Platform Weekly - Special Edition 3rd anniversary!
• Power Platform Dev Weekly
• Power Pages Pro - Newsletter by Tino Rabe
• D365 Marketing Weekly by Megan V. Walker

Microsoft

• Announcing Microsoft Copilot Studio
• Introducing Project "Sophia", a new generation AI-first business application by Julie Strauss
• Online payments in Power Pages – ReadyXRM by Nick Doelman
• Power Apps accelerates the shift toward modern, AI-infused apps with governance at scale by Ryan Cunningham
• Sign Up: Power Platform Private Preview for Environment Groups and Rules
• Introducing Power Platform Advisor
• Optimize for devices overview (preview) - Power Apps
• Announcing General Availability for model-driven apps offline for maker

Events

• DYNUG: Dynamics User Group - Fall Conference 2023
• NZ Business Applications Summit 2023

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Nick #SuperExcited Doelman and Ulrikke #WoopWoop Akerbæk start this episode talking about Microsoft Cloud for Non-profit and the new Power Platform Enterprise Templates; Power for HR. Nick shares his hands-on experience with Low Code Plugins, and then we shout out to some great community contributors for their excellent work, like Thomas Sandsør, Elaiza Benitez, and Lisa Crosby among others.

News

• Microsoft Industry Clouds
• Power for HR: Transform your HR processes with Power Platform Enterprise Templates
• What’s new: Power Apps October 2023 Feature Update
• Microsoft No Code / Low Code By Mike Guzowski 
• Using Dataverse low-code plug-ins with Power Pages – ReadyXRM by Nick Doelman 
• Plugins 4 Dummies – CRM Keeper by Thomas Sandsør
• Your guide to building Business Process Flows like an Expert 😎 by Elaiza Benitez
• Can't Get Microsoft 365 Copilot? Try This Instead by Lisa Crosby
• Episode 23: Let’s Chat Power Virtual Agents (w/ Jack Rowbotham) | Low Code Approach
• Victor Dantas Live on LinkedIn: Power Pages Essentials with Nick Doelman
• Jag Jubbal on LinkedIn: Microsoft fabric direct link from Dataverse..In preview!

Events

Microsoft Ignite (November 15th-16th 2023)
Portallunsj (November 15th 2023)
Arctic Cloud Developer Challenge (February 1st-4th 2024)
Fabric February 2024 (February 8th 2024)

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This time we bring you news and updates for Power Automate mostly, but also the notification about the missing Environment Variable and how it's tied to the Dataverse Low Code Plugins now being public preview. Nick did the Microsoft Applied Skills challenge and Ulrikke shouts out to community friends for helping her through tough times.

News

Microsoft again named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms

­­Dataverse Low Code Plug-ins now in public preview

Announcing Microsoft Applied Skills, the new credentials to verify in-demand technical skills

Deeper control over HTTP invocation of flows

Microsoft Power Automate work queues are generally available

Connect to other environments using the Microsoft Dataverse connector

Create a topic with Power Virtual Agent Copilot Prompt by Ben den Blanken

Shout Outs

XrmToolCast: Microsoft MVP vs Blue Badge with Nick Doelman

Resco Panel Discussion: The Future of D365 Mobility: Dataverse, Power Platform, AI, and beyond

Franco Musso's blog post: Get full resolution images in your Power Pages Lists

Events

Portallunsj (November 15th 2023)

Arctic Cloud Developer Challenge (February 1st-4th 2024)

Fabric February 2024 (February 8th 2024)

#BOOSTquest

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We recorded this episode at Ulrikke's house! We are all over the place because we are so excited to be in the same place. Ulrikke shares news about Power Pages, we talk about creating games with Canvas Apps and Flows,  we rant about copilots (just a little), and Nick talks about the new tool Ivan Ficko created for Flow Execution History. 

Microsoft News

• Power Pages ALM with Solutions, Pipelines and Enhanced data model general availability (GA)
• September 2023 updates for modernization and theming in Power Apps
• Enable Bootstrap version 5 in your environment (preview)

Community News

• Canyon Escape - a Power Automate Game by David Wyatt
• Zork - Wikipedia
• Arctic Cloud Developer Challenge
• Power Platform - More Autopilot than Copilot by David Wyatt
• Flow-tastrophe? Conquer Flows with a smile using Flow Execution History - Dynamics Ninja by Ivan Ficko
• CODE Focus Magazine Home

#BOOSTquest

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Power Platform BOOST Podcast on X: "What's your background?"

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Events

The Power Platform Whistlestop Tour, Thu 19 Oct 2023

Oct 24 — 25 ~ Marbella, Spain | resco.NEXT 2023

Panel live stream from Resco Next by Rick McCutcheon

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Microsoft Power Platform Conference 2023 is wrapping up and Nick and Ulrikke discuss the Adam Grant keynote, sessions on Power FX, and Business Process flows.

Ulrikke discusses how to plan and prepare to deliver a session at conferences, and Nick provides some tips and strategies on getting the most out of attending a conference.

Microsoft Power Platform Conference 2023
Keynote - Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know & a fireside chat hosted by Sangya Singh
Combining Business Process Flows and Power Automate Approvals for the Ultimate Approval Process
Leverage Power Fx Across the Power Platform and Beyond

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Today at #MPPC23, Nick learned about Managed Environments and governance from Michael Roth. Ulrikke presented a session on Styling Power Pages where Microsoft announced that Google Fonts will available soon. We got some great insights from Women & Allies Low Code panel discussion, where Azure McFarlane, Mo Osborne, Sangya Singh and Scott Durow.

Event site:
Microsoft Power Platform Conference

Sessions:
Power Platform Governance Made Easy - Enhance the Admin Center With the CoE Starter Kit
How to Style Power Pages
Women & Allies in Low Code Panel

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The first full conference day of the Microsoft Power Platform Conference is wrapped up with a lot of community spirit and amazing announcements.

Event site:
Microsoft Power Platform Conference

Sessions:
Creating Your First Power Automate Approval Flow in Under 25 Minutes!
Extend Your Dynamics 365 to External Users with Power Pages
Low Code Power Pages ALM

Community:
Neil Benson
Steve Mordue

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Nordic Summit is one of our favorite community events, and this year we're in Copenhagen, Denmark. Nick has fun teaching a workshop on Power Pages on Friday. Today, Saturday, we have enjoyed being with this inclusive bunch of #PowerAddict friends, learning lots of new things, and connecting with the community. 

Between us, we went to these great sessions by some of our favorite speakers:

• 👀 Looking Good, Exciting, and Functional! Power Apps that POP 💥by Mike Hartley
• Connecting to Dataverse: do's, don'ts, and how not to make all your data public by accident by Yannick Reekmans and Mats Necker
• Power Automate Gymnastics: The Dataverse Edition by Amey Holden
• Data Modeling in Dataverse: Where Dinosaurs and Unicorns Meet 🦖🦄💻 by Rebekka Aalbers and Chris Huntingford
• Power Pipelines, Power Platform Build Tools, ALM Accelerator. Oh My! By Jens Schrøder
• Managed Environments - Your secret to success by Carl Cookson

This was also the first time we were presenting on stage together, and we had so much fun on stage presenting on "Top 10 tips and tricks for Power Pages". 

We didn't do a PowerPoint deck, but we did a Power Pages site instead! It's live, and you can reach it at https://top10powerpagestips.powerappsportals.com (until we take the site down and turn it into a blog post)

A big THANK YOU to the amazing people that put this event together. It was great last year and it is even better this year. Already looking forward to Nordic Summit, in Oslo, sometime late September 2024!

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Nick revealed some personal news and we talked about news we picked up from the XrmToolCast, the Low Code Approach, Thomas Sandsør, Steve Modrue, Michael Roth, and April Dunnam. We also pay a special tribute to Marcus Erlandsson in celebration of the 10-year anniversary of his podcast CRM Rocks.

News

• Nick Doelman on LinkedIn: There and back again...
• E102 - The Default Environment with EY Kalman on XrmToolCast
• Streamline your governance and environment strategy using Default Environment Routing (preview)
• You Said, We Said: Busting Power Platform Myths Pt 2 - Low Code Approach
• What’s new: Power Apps August 
• Check your user access and permissions
• Power BI September 2023 Feature Summary
• Plugins for Dummies by Thomas Sandsør
• Leverage Power Fx 1.0
• Jag Jubbal on LinkedIn: Unification of Dynamics F&O within the Power Platform
• Set up DocuSign integration
• Sally in HR has a Business Problem – Steve Mordue
• Become the best Power Platform Admin by Michael Roth
• Power Platform Copilot Environment Setup by April Dunnam
• 10 Years of CRM Rocks

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This week we have listened to the results of last week's #BOOSTquest poll - and Nick, our new official Time Cop, try to keep us in line - and under 30 minutes. We talk about some of the news and updates around copilots across the platform, and we each get a bit excited :D We also took the time to talk about certifications, ways to prepare for exams, why you should, and different learning styles.
 

Last #BOOSTquest we asked how long our episodes should be. See the results of the poll on LinkedIn: Power Platform BOOST Podcast on LinkedIn

News

• Microsoft Power Automate Process Mining is generally available
• Announcing the integration of Power Automate telemetry data with Azure Application Insights
• Power BI has Copilot already? For DAX it does! By "Guy in a Cube" (Adam Saxton and Patrick LeBlanc)
• Copilot brings the power of intelligence to your favorite Power Apps
• Add AI-generated code using Copilot
• Microsoft's Satya Nadella is winning big tech's AI war. Here's how
• Chris Huntingford 🚀 on LinkedIn: Introducing a new resource for all role-based Microsoft Certification exams

Resources

• Microsoft Power Platform: Learning Resources 
• Skills Measured: Study guide for Exam PL-100 ++
• 365.Training
• Learning styles: The VARK Modalities: Visual, Aural, Read/write & Kinesthetic

Student Labs

• PL-900-Microsoft-Power-Platform-Fundamentals
• PL-100-Microsoft-Power-Platform-App-Maker 
• PL-200-Power-Platform-Functional-Consultant 
• PL-400_Microsoft-Power-Platform-Developer 
• PL-600-Microsoft-Power-Platform-Solution-Architect

Events

• Microsoft Power Platform Conference (October 3-5th, Vegas) - Promo Code "BOOST100"
• South Coast Summit (October 13-14th)
• European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference (November 27th-30th)

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