Holiday Special (#21)

🎉 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

 #BOOSTquest about Managed Environments

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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

#BOOSTquest

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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

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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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