September, 2025 - Aric Levin's Digital Transformation Blog

Canvas Apps, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, Government Cloud, Power Apps, Power Platform

Using Power Apps Desktop App for Government Tenants

If you have worked throughout your career in multiple industries including government and are trying to build a Power App for your governments clients that should run on the mobile or desktop client, you might have encountered some connection issues and errors that will not allow you to connect.

By Aric Levin September 27, 2025 November 3, 2025

Copilot, Dataverse, Power Apps, PowerApps Component Framework (PCF)

PCF Control in Side Pane in Model Driven Apps

Side Panes in Model Driven Apps have been around for some time now, and we have used them for showing Entity Lists, Entity Records and web resources. In addition to the standard types that we can display in the side panes we can also display custom pages and PCF controls

By Aric Levin September 18, 2025 October 28, 2025

My name is Aric Levin, and I have been a technology evangelist for over 20 years. I am an expert in the areas of Software Development and Architecture, and over the past 13 years, my focus has been on Microsoft Dynamics CRM/365.

I graduated in 2004 with a degree in Computer Science, while working full time in various technology related position. In 2005, while working as Chief Technologist for a Marketing Company, I was introduced to Dynamics CRM (version 3), and soon after started working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

In 2007 I started doing consulting work for various companies and government agencies, and changed my focus to working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.