Shane Young
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Copilot & Power Apps MVP - SharePoint, O365, Flow, Power Apps consulting & Training? @PowerApps911
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Why The Phoenix Mercury Are Built For A Deep 2025 Playoff Run
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - AUGUST 21: The Phoenix Mercury pose at their bench before a game against the Las Vegas Aces at Michelob ULTRA Arena on August 21, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Aces defeated the Mercury 83-61. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Getty Images The only thing Nate Tibbetts needed was time.
How Alyssa Thomas Has Achieved MVP-Level Playmaking
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - JULY 14: Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas (25) looks on during a WNBA game against the Golden State Valkyries on July 14, 2025 at the Chase Center in San Francisco, CA. (Photo by Matthew Huang/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Icon Sportswire via Getty Images During any random moment of a Phoenix Mercury game, chances are, you'll catch Alyssa Thomas with a smile on her face. The beauty of it? You won't exactly know why.
OKC Thunder’s Elite Defense And Jalen Williams’ Redemption Fueled Game 7 Blowout
In a series that shouldn’t have extended this long in the first place, the Oklahoma City Thunder handled business in Game 7 of the West semifinals, dispatching the Denver Nuggets in a 32-point bludgeoning. After trailing by five in the first quarter, OKC pounced on Denver and outscored them 104-67 the rest of the way. For the Thunder, it clinched their 58th double-digit victory of the year – now tied with the 1971 Bucks for the second most in history for a full season and ensuing playoff run.
Creating Your First PowerApps App Using a SharePoint List
If you have been on the internet at all in the last year and read anything about the Office 365 ecosystem, you have heard of PowerApps. PowerApps allows us common folks (non-developers) to create and publish web and mobile apps through an easy to use web-based tool. No Visual Studio, no coffee-based languages, and no dealing with getting something published to the fruit store. If you can use a web browser, you can build and publish your own app for you or your whole team to use.
Microsoft Enhances PowerApps with new features, Introduces New Power Automate Name
Today during the keynote there was one overarching theme I heard. Power Platform continues to grow in its power. (Yes, I am a dork) If you are not familiar with Power Platform that is the name that Microsoft gives to the combination of Power BI, PowerApps, and Microsoft Flow. This toolset allows you to build better business solutions no matter who “you” are.
Suns’ Devin Booker Continues To Elevate His Scoring Prowess
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What is New with Power Platform - September 2023
Happy back-to-school season Makers! This month we’re looking at some features across Canvas Apps, Power BI, and Power Automate. Built-in offline mode for canvas apps is moving from Experimental Preview to Public Preview in September 2023! Makers will be able to quickly take their canvas app offline by simply enabling the feature in the General Settings in the Power Apps Maker Studio. Once the setting is enabled, makers can set up what are known as offline profiles.
Phillip’s Power Apps Odyssey
In the far reaches of the cosmic realm known as Azuria, a remarkable journey began. It's a tale of discovery and transformation, illustrating the hidden potential within Microsoft Power Apps. This is not just a story, but a portal to a world where a humble spreadsheet can evolve into a dynamic web-connected mobile app with the assistance of professional developers. As we embark on this fictional quest, remember that the magic I describe mirrors real possibilities.
What's New With Microsoft's Power Platform in August 2023
It was a busy August and I took the long weekend off, so I’m a few days late to cover everything that’s new with Microsoft’s Power Platform in August 2023. Either way, let’s get started with the most interesting Power Platform updates that came in August, say goodbye to the summer, and here is hoping for a fabulous fall. Ready to dive into a world of innovation and AI-powered solutions?
What’s New with Microsoft’s Power Platform in July 2023
Summer is in full swing, and it is hot out there! Speaking of hot things, Microsoft just released last month the 2023 Release Plan Wave 2 for its Power Platform, which details updates coming between October 2023 and March 2024. Let’s take a look at what’s in the pipeline! Power Apps: More upcoming AI-assisted features Obviously, the most exciting thing for Power Apps is what’s coming with Copilot. Two features are coming in public preview in October 2023 with no GA date set as of this writing.
What's New With Microsoft's Power Platform in June 2023
As Microsoft is still busy implementing AI-powered Copilot experiences across all of its cloud services, this month we’re going to take a look at some of the quieter features Microsoft added to its Power Platform to help makers be more efficient and secure when building apps. Delegation improvements for Power Apps Anybody who’s ever built a Power App runs into delegation issues at some point, so any enhancements to delegation are exciting news in the community.
What's new with Power Platform – May 2023 | Petri
As a true Power Platform guy, I watched the breaking headlines from Microsoft Build 2023 last month and came away with 2 words to caption the bulk of it: Copilot Everywhere! Microsoft’s powerful AI service is making its way into various Power Platform and Microsoft 365 products. Imagine having an intelligent assistant at your fingertips that integrates with the tools you’ve grown comfortable using and the data that drives your company?
What's New With Microsoft's Power Platform in April 2023
This month, as promised, we’re seeing the Microsoft Power Platform lean into AI enhancements. Many of these new AI-powered features are genuinely useful, and they should certainly improve as users provide feedback to the company. As I always advise, you shouldn’t use experimental features in production apps, but once they cross the threshold to preview, that means that Microsoft is going to be rolling them out to all users in the future.
What's New With Microsoft's Power Platform in March 2023
Did someone say it’s already Spring? It sure feels like it with all of the Microsoft Power Platform changes and new AI-enhanced features that the company touted in March. Don’t worry though, we’ll whet your appetite and provide some links below. New Microsoft 365 Copilot If you missed the announcement of the Microsoft 365 Copilot last month, then you may have been visiting another galaxy.
What's New With Microsoft's Power Platform in February 2023
As part of Microsoft’s ongoing investment in its Power Platform, the company recently published its Power Platform 2023 release wave 1 plan, which details new features that will be released between April and September 2023. In the meantime, the company introduced several new features for PowerBI and Dataverse in February, so let’s take a look at the main highlights.
The Main Updates to Microsoft's Power Platform in January 2023
There have been some exciting new developments within the Power Apps and Power Automate spaces in January. We’ve had an interesting spin on pay-as-you-go licensing, a new Shared Device Mode for frontline workers, a cool new way to work with SharePoint data in Dataverse, plus that big AI revolution that everyone is talking about.
How to Create Flows Between Apps With Power Automate
Power Automate is a workflow service that allows you to automate many different actions across common apps and services. You can use it to automate just about anything you do by using what we call “flows”, which are a series of instructions you tell Power Automate to do for you. In this article, we’ll show you how to create flows with Power Automate to automate workflows between apps.
What's New with Microsoft Power Platform in December 2022
Happy new year, Power Platform Community! As we all move into the new year, let’s take a look at the latest updates Microsoft announced for its Power Platform in December. We’ll be highlighting the ones we are most excited about in this article. Power BI Slicer Type The Power BI team has moved the Slicer Type formatting option to the Format pane instead of accessing it through the visual header. Before, we would hover over the visual to choose between Dropdown or List, for example.
What’s New with Microsoft’s Power Platform in November 2022
After a series of exciting Power Platform announcements from Ignite in October, Microsoft has been focusing on its Power Automate desktop app this month with a new client update and process mining features. In November, we’re also getting a preview of a PowerFX formula repair tool and Power Apps developer tools. Microsoft also had an exciting announcement for everyone in the logistics and warehousing industries with its Supply Chain Platform.
What's New With Microsoft's Power Platform in October 2022
After a whirlwind of news from the first annual Microsoft Power Platform Conference in September, we now have all the news from Microsoft Ignite 2022! We’ve got previews for creating Power Automate flows with natural language, creating complex Power Automate expressions by feeding it examples, the general availability of 2022 Release Wave 2 for Dynamics 365, as well as a lot of exciting updates with Power BI report and dataset interactions and management.
What's New for Microsoft's Power Platform – September 2022
The Microsoft Power Platform Conference in Orlando, Florida was on fire last week. The energy and excitement were off the chart and I had a marvelous time getting selfies with so many other enthusiasts. We were privileged to be there live when many of the new features I’m going to write about had their unveiling. So, let’s jump right in and see what was new with Microsoft’s Power Platform in September. First of all, There were three big enhancements for Power Apps that got the spotlight.
What's New for Microsoft's Power Platform – August 2022 | Petri
September is shaping up to be a month of working smarter and not harder. This month, Microsoft introduced their collaboration applications into model-driven Power Apps as well as inline (bulk) editing. SharePoint Syntex is also utilizing Power Automate to populate Microsoft Word templates, and Power Apps’ error handling is now a developer’s dream come true. Let’s dive into all the new features that landed in Microsoft’s Power Platform in August 2022.
What’s New with Microsoft's Power Platform – June 2022 | Petri
There have been many exciting updates for Microsoft’s Power Platform last month, including a new look for model-driven apps, new metrics in Power BI, as well as Search and Find and Replace capabilities coming to Power Apps. On the connectors front, Microsoft also added introduced 13 new connectors and updated 14 existing ones.
What's New with Power Platform - May 2022 | Petri IT Knowledgebase
There are new features this month across the Power Platform including some brand-new Power Apps functions, a new version of Power Automate for desktop, and UX updates for Power BI. Power Apps now supports the new SharePoint list image column type Power Apps now supports the new SharePoint list image column type.
Everything you need to know about Power Platform
Hello from mid-America where warmer weather is getting rolled out to us in snippets, but most days are still being spent in the cold weather environment. Microsoft is doing something like our recent weather with its Power Platform in February as they’ve begun revealing some newer 2022 rollout code in preview mode. This month was an interesting one for Microsoft’s Power Platform, though there was nothing really Canvas apps specific to report.
What's New with Windows – February 2022 | Petri IT Knowledgebase
This month, Lenovo releases new Windows devices on ARM, Windows 11 gets a ‘major’ update, and resetting your PC might not delete all your files. Lenovo announces new Windows devices built on ARM and the Pluton security architecture Lenovo announced at the Mobile World Conference (MWC) in Barcelona this month new devices running Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 ARM processors. Microsoft says these are the first ARM processors built on its Pluton security architecture.
Azure AD SC-300 Exam - Are Microsoft Exams Worth It?
Cloud Conversations – Azure AD SC-300 Exam – Are Microsoft Exams Worth It? In this week’s episode, Dwayne Natwick MVP catches up with Ru and Pete about… The SC-300 Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator exam Dwayne’s new book on the exam Azure AD and its hidden gems Are Microsoft certs worth it?
This Week in IT - Microsoft Lists is Coming to Everyone But Who Knows What It Is For?
Russell Smith | Feb 04, 2022 Microsoft announced a new preview version of Microsoft Lists for consumers and small businesses, Windows 11 is getting updates using three different kinds of feature packs, and IT security gets funding but C-level execs have no idea what they are doing. This week in IT is a weekly podcast hosted by Petri’s Editorial Director Russell Smith. Each week, Russell rounds up the most important stories for IT pros in a short 5-minute video.
Amazon Launches a new AWS Management Console
Amazon started off this new year with one pretty big change for Amazon Web Services (AWS). They updated the AWS Management Console. The AWS Management Console is probably the most frequently used AWS tool. The AWS Management Console is a web application that enables you to access and mange AWS resources. Until this past update the home page of the console showed your most recently used services and a set of static links organized in sections like Getting Started with AWS and Build a Solution.
What's New with Power Platform - December 2021
Happy New Year and warm wishes to everyone as we move into 2022 together. Microsoft continues to spoil us with continued updates to the platform as we look to hold true to our New Year’s Resolutions. Say no to spreadsheets. (No excel as a data source) Release wave 2 for Power Platform is wrapping up for 2021 with a few tweaks to mention. Hope everyone enjoyed time with their families as we move forward into 2022.
What is Microsoft Teams Essentials
December 1st, 2021, Microsoft announced the availability of Teams Essentials, a new product built for small businesses. In this article, you’ll learn what is Microsoft Teams Essentials, how it compares to other editions of Teams, and about pricing and availability. What is Microsoft Teams Essentials? Microsoft Teams Essentials provides small businesses with unlimited group calls for up to 30 hours, group chat, file sharing, and calendaring.
Big Announcements at AWS re:Invent 2021
Amazon Web Services|Backup & Storage|Cloud Computing|VMware Michael Otey | Dec 02, 2021 This year’s AWS re:Invent conference is taking place from Nov. 29 through Dec. 3, 2021 at the Venetian Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. The re:Invent conference is the biggest AWS event of the year. Unlike last year’s conference which was only online, this year’s re:Invent is a hybrid event that is both in-person and online. AWS re:Invent in-person attendees needed to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and wear masks.
What's New with Power Platform - November 2021
Microsoft Ignite kicked off this month with positive news for Power Platform with developers and Microsoft Teams continuing to be the focus. New connectors, artificial intelligence, and a much-needed makeover for Power BI, all new in Power Platform for November. Hope you enjoy all the latest updates! Why isn’t your app in Teams? With Teams growing at lightning pace, we are starting to see it become the center for engagement for businesses.
Microsoft Loop is Rebrand of Fluid Framework
At its Ignite conference yesterday, Microsoft announced that some parts of its Fluid Framework are being rebranded as Microsoft Loop. Or at least some parts of it. First announced in 2019, the Fluid Framework provides users with what Microsoft describes as ‘atomic units of productivity’ that can be shared and worked on independently of a parent application.
Microsoft Ignite November 2021 – Highlights for IT Pros
The second installment of Microsoft Ignite November 2021 kicks off today, November 2nd, at 4.15 CET with the opening keynote by Satya Nadella. The conference runs through to November 4th. Many of the sessions can be watched on-demand after the event but not all of them. In this article, I’m going to cut through all the marketing spiel and highlight my picks for the sessions that will be most important for Petri readers.
What's New with Power Platform - October 2021 Edition
Lots to cover this month! So, let’s get started with what’s new with Power Platform in October 2021. Release wave 2 has been rolling out, but Microsoft has released some updates above and beyond the release wave. Performance improvements, quality of life improvements, and as always, new Power Automate connectors have been introduced this month. Hope you all enjoy all the new changes! App.StartScreen Power Apps property A new App property was introduced this month, called StartScreen.
Windows 11 New Features, Release Date, and System Requirements
Windows 11 is generally available this week on October 5th. But while some have dismissed it as just Windows 10 with a fresh coat of paint, there are changes that Microsoft says lead to improved performance, reliability, and security. In this article, I’m going to look at the new features in Windows 11 and how Microsoft’s new desktop operating system compares to Windows 10. Finally, I’ll discuss whether you should upgrade to Microsoft’s latest and greatest.
What's New with Power Platform - September 2021
Automate together Collaboration has now become much easier in Power Automate. The new co-presence feature will allow multiple users to edit a flow simultaneously. If you have ever used Excel or Word online collaboration, you will recognize the new user icons next to the save button that indicate all of the users editing the flow with you. There are also new warning messages in case two editors implement conflicting changes to avoid deletion or duplication of changes.
What’s New with Azure – July 2021 Edition | Petri
July – a month that many take a vacation in, and it’s the start of the commercial year for Microsoft. That year kicks off with Microsoft Inspire, a conference for the partner community to learn about what Microsoft is launching and how Microsoft wants their partners to sell to customers. Most of the content is the commercial stuff that bores many of us. But this year had one interesting announcement that media insiders have been expecting for around a year.
What’s New with Power Platform – July 2021 | Petri
I am headed out on a family vacation so I plan to keep this one short and sweet but did not want to miss the opportunity to tell you about some of the great things happening across the Power Platform. There is a little bit for everyone. Power Platform release wave 2 plan: Ride the wave! Microsoft has released their wave 2 plan for the Power Platform and for Dynamics 365. Starting August 2, certain Power Apps preview features will be available for early access.
Windows Server 2022 Gets Hotpatching Support, and Much More
Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2022 was released to OEMs for testing earlier this month. And in a presentation last week, we got more detailed information about the features included in this release. Best on Azure Microsoft is pushing Azure as the best platform for hosting Windows Server 2022. And for the first time, there will be an ‘Azure Edition’ of Windows Server connected to the 2022 release, which offers features not available outside of the Azure public cloud and Azure Stack.
AvePoint Lands on the Nasdaq Today
In the world of Microsoft 365, there is an entire economy dedicated to providing services that link into Microsoft’s productivity portfolio. These are often known as MSPs or managed service providers and sometimes known as VARs, or value-added resellers. While MSPs and VARs are different types of services, the net result is that under the umbrella of Microsoft 365, the MSP and VAR ecosystem is vibrant and with Microsoft on a healthy trajectory upward, the outlook continues to be positive.
What's New with Power Platform - June 2021
The year is halfway over! That is crazy to think about, so I won’t. Either way, welcome to the second half of the year where Power Platform continues to rise higher and higher like the mercury here in the Northern Hemisphere. I hope you are staying cool, sitting by the pool, reading all of these delightful updates. Though I will see most of them are very specific, nothing all-encompassing or earth-shattering this month. Power Apps adds support for NFC tags Very handy.
What's New with Windows – June 2021 Edition | Petri
Microsoft launches Windows 11, Windows Server 2022 gets hotpatching, and ARM64EC promises to make it easier for developers to port x64 apps to ARM. It’s a bumper news month and possibly the most interesting in many years for Windows. Microsoft launched Windows 11 at a special event on June 24th. And while a leaked build surfaced on the Internet a week before the event, that didn’t dampen enthusiasm for Microsoft’s reimagined version of Windows. So, let’s get started.
What's New with Azure– June 2021 Edition | Petri
July is here and we are halfway through the year. Am I the only one that feels like 2021 is zipping by? I have been working non-stop for the last 6 months preparing for and migrating legacy workloads from a data center to Microsoft Azure and I have barely had time to look up from my monitor. But that ends next week – I will be looking back on this series of articles and finding things that I need to start playing within the lab! And maybe I’ll try to get a gaming controller for my iPad.
How to use Stellar Repair for Exchange to Recover a Corrupted EDB File
This post was Sponsored by Stellar Repair, you can learn more about their EDB Recovery Tool here. Exchange Server is Microsoft’s enterprise email, calendaring, contact, scheduling, and collaboration platform. It is an enterprise-class server that is primarily focused on sending, receiving, and storing email messages for all of the users in the organization. The current version is Exchange Server 2019.
Everything You Need to Know About Power Platform May 2021
With Build being this month a lot of the announcements came out via Build and while it is a developer conference I would say most of the stuff is not traditional dev focused. I would also mention that almost nothing here is applicable today, they are more where are we headed. Speaking of headed, if you are in my half of the world we are headed into summer. So that is exciting.
Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure – April 2021 Edition - Petri
I’ve been drowning in project deadlines for the last month and I’ve not had a chance to keep up with the improvements in Microsoft Azure IaaS. So this month’s article is as much for me as it is for you! New General Purpose VMs The most common virtual machine family that I use in Microsoft Azure is the D-series family from the general-purpose category. These are machines with high-spec Intel processors that come with 4x RAM, for example, 2 virtual CPUs (1 core with Multithreading) and 8 GB RAM.
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