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Announcing the 'Work with Power Fx functions' Learning Path
Microsoft Learn has a growing list of Power Platform training modules. Based on community feedback, we’ve added a new learning path: Work with Power Fx functions. Power Fx functions enable the creation of server-side business logic using Power Fx, a low-code, declarative language. These functions were previously called . They provide reusable, parameterized logic that users can run manually and scope globally or to specific tables.
Bells and whistles: Building with Microsoft Copilot Studio
Don’t know how to start with building an agent in Microsoft Copilot Studio? We’ve got you covered! In our AI in Action: Building with Copilot Studio series on the Microsoft Power Platform YouTube channel, we have several episodes that guide you through how to get started in building an agent. In this series we showcase the different capabilities of building agents with Copilot Studio, which includes building, testing, deploying, analyzing, security and data loss prevention policy.
Announcing the 'Simplify Microsoft Power Platform Deployments by Using Pipelines' Learning Path
Microsoft Learn offers many Power Platform learn modules. Now, we are expanding the collection with a new release! Pipelines in Power Platform is a managed environments feature that has been released a while back now! Over time, it has improved significantly with updates like SPN support, deployment pages, extensibility, and personal pipelines.
We are deprecating earlier versions of Visual Studio for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations development
August 29th, 2024 Microsoft will no longer be shipping or supporting the Visual Studio extensions supporting development work against Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, and for the Power Platform tools, for Visual Studio versions other than Visual Studio 2022. What will change?
Create scripts with Power Platform CLI
August 15th, 2024 The Power Platform CLI is a great tool to use when you are working with the Power Platform. You can create Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) components with it, you can do tons of administrative actions, and much more! You can run these one by one in the console when you’re developing a Power Platform solution, but sometimes, you want to use multiple commands together. In this blog, I will show you how you can create scripts with Power Platform CLI.
Announcing a new Learn module: Create a copilot to help promote your podcast
July 31st, 2024 Microsoft Learn has always been a way to learn new skills and concepts and discover the power of Microsoft products with step-by-step guidance. Recently, there has been an increase of learn paths and modules that throw you further into the deep end allowing you to develop new skills by building an end-to-end solution or project.
Announcing a new Learn module: Use service principal authentication in custom connectors
July 19th, 2024 Connectors are one of the superpowers of the Microsoft Power Platform. They link the Power Platform to a vast array of external services and applications. Over 1200 connectors are available now out of the box. But – what if the API you want to connect to doesn’t have an out of the box connector? Or the existing connector doesn’t do what you need? Or your company has custom APIs that they want to use with the Power Platform?
The Unified Development Environment is GA!
June 6th, 2024 We are proud to announce that the Unified Developer Experience for Finance and Operations apps (colloquially known as UDE) is now generally availablity for all customers. As you may know, UDE is both the next step in the app development experience for Finance and Operations, and a powerful enabler for leveraging the value provided by Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform.
Create multilingual copilots with the Power Platform CLI and Microsoft Copilot Studio
February 27th, 2024 A while ago, it became possible to create multilingual copilots in Microsoft Copilot Studio. It’s easy to enable the setting and have multiple languages in your copilot, but do you know how to translate your copilot into a different language? In this blog, I will show you how it can be done! This blog is part of a multi-part series on the Power Platform CLI.
Unlock Retail Productivity with Power Platform and Dataverse
January 12th, 2024 This year at the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) Big Show we will highlight how Power Platform can help unlock productivity and improve customer experiences in your retail shopping experiences. Store associates can face many challenges, including dealing with backorders and stockouts on items. Often, this is caused by data being scattered across multiple enterprise systems and data sources. It is nearly impossible to identify and mitigate risks with these challenges.
Power Platform Command Line Interface: October/November Updates
December 8th, 2023 We’re excited to announce the new updates released in Power Platform CLI October and November updates. There are a number of improvements that we have made for you, our developer community, and we want to share with you to help overcome roadblocks and make process enhancements. The development team, our PM team, and I are thankful for your continued support.
Announcing the Livestream Series - Let’s Learn Power: A Real-life AI + Power Platform Use Case
December 7th, 2023 Unlocking Value with the Power Platform For years now, the Power Platform has been a low code tool that unlocks value across your business by accelerating application & automation development to meet business demand faster. Whether you’re a professional developer, an IT admin, business analyst, or a non-technical employee, low code empowers you to create solutions in a fast, secure, and compliant fashion.
Power Platform CLI - Simplifying authentication profiles.
December 6th, 2023 Good day developers! Power Platform CLI is a one stop command line interface to interact with Power Platform – aka PAC CLI. We have 3 different kinds of authentication profiles. In the version 1.16 of PAC CLI, we started to deprecate the parameter --kind and since then, UNIVERSAL is the default profile kind. In this post, I will explain why we have different authentication profile kind, what is the intention of each type and what kind of profile you should use.
Build your next application on Dataverse - now with hyperscale support for any enterprise data
December 4th, 2023 Dataverse, Microsoft’s modern and scalable business application platform in the cloud, enables developers to build enterprise-grade applications at hyperscale. Today, Dataverse encompasses over 3.5 million Azure SQL databases and leverages Azure SQL Hyperscale to support up to 100 TB per individual database–with rapid scale up, rapid scale out, and high availability.
The Visual Studio 2022 add-in is now available for Dynamics 365 for Financials and Operations.
November 7th, 2023 TL;DR: The Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Visual Studio add-in is now available for use in Visual Studio 2022 (VS 2022). Visual Studio 2022 is the first 64-bit version of Visual Studio. We wanted to take advantage of the stability it brought (and set us up for the future) and this gave us the opportunity to rework and rethink some of our code.
VHDs and CHEs with One box deployments available now (VHD FinandOps10.0.37)
November 7th, 2023 TL;DR We have published updated virtual machines (VHD) and cloud hosted environments (CHE) containing the latest bits, scheduled to be released in the first week of November 2023. The new VHD Developer One-box image is based on Windows Server 2022 Datacenter. The image contains both the Visual Studio (VS) 2019 and VS 2022 versions (in the professional SKU). The VHD ships with the Platform Update 61/App 10.0.37 payload installed.
Annotating Power Platform Checker results
May 25th, 2023 How can we quickly identify new issues exposed by the Solution Checker? If we are in the fortunate position of having zero issues then new issues are easy to identify. For more than a handful of issues we might have to compare against previous runs of the solution checker to identify the newly introduced issues. Let’s investigate how to improve this situation.
Streamline your solution development with the Power Platform CLI: Create a solution from scratch
May 10th, 2023 In this blog, you will learn more about using the Power Platform CLI together with Power Platform Solutions. In the previous post, I focused on installing the Power Platform CLI, creating the auth profile and switching environments. In this blog, the solution command group is the superstar! 📦 Solution command group As you expect by now, the solution command group enables you to work with Power Platform solutions.
Getting Started with the Power Platform CLI
May 10th, 2023 As a developer, you might be used to working with the command line. When using low-code tools like the Power Platform, that’s not a given. To bridge the gap for developers, Microsoft has created the Power Platform CLI. Inner loop & outer loop development The Power Platform CLI works for both inner loop development and outer loop development. The inner loop is for when a developer wants to work on a project and build a new feature for instance.
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PowerApps quick tip: Bypass consent popups
When you're working a lot with PowerApps, you probably encountered consent popups. These popups show up when you have connected a data source to your PowerApp and open your app for the first time. These consent popups show up for everyone that has access to the app. While this is an excellent way to make users aware that the app gets certain permissions, in some cases, you don't want this! PowerApps PowerShell module There is a simple solution for this.
How to use a timeout for your Microsoft Flow approvals
Yesterday, Melissa Hubbard posted a great intro to Microsoft Flow approvals in her Flow Approval Fundamentals blog post. Make sure to check her blog post before reading this one. Her blog post is focussed on the basics and I will be highlighting a bit more of an advanced feature: timeouts for Microsoft Flow approvals. It will be a short post, but it will hopefully be a useful one for you guys! Imagine having a process where you want to give someone a couple of days to reply to an approval.
What’s new in Microsoft Teams – November update
Since we started to work on Microsoft Teams, our mission hasn’t changed – to create a hub for teamwork that provides people with a single place to communicate and collaborate with others so that teams can achieve more. We’d like to thank each one of you who has provided feedback on Microsoft Teams through channels like UserVoice.
Announcing Microsoft Flow integration for SharePoi...
Last year, as part of our ongoing reinvention of business processes, we rolled out modern lists integrated with Microsoft Flow. Flow provides zero-code automation of common business processes and connections to dozens of other enterprise and custom data services. We also announced in various venues like Ignite and the Office blog that there was more to come in the integration of SharePoint with Flow and the rest of Microsoft’s Business App platform.
Automate processes + tasks
Create automated workflows between your favorite apps and services to get notifications, synchronize files, collect data, and more Multistep flows Approve requests Adding conditions Using on-premises data Working securely Multistep flows Turn repetitive tasks into multistep workflows. For example, with a few clicks capture tweets and add them as leads in Dynamics 365, subscribers in Mailchimp, and more...
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