Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Release Waves
If you have launched the preview maker portal in the last week or so, you might have seen some big changes in the navigation and the ability to customize this to fit the needs of the maker. In this post, I will demonstrate some of the new highlights of the new preview portal (currently in Preview), and discuss some of the benefits.
uary 5th, Microsoft announced the ability to call Dataverse actions directly from within Power Apps instead if having the need to call a Power Automate flow to create this action. This new feature will heavily improve performance.
Yesterday (January 25, 2023), Microsoft release their plans for Microsoft Dynamics 2023 Release Wave 1. These release plans are available in various formats and can be accessed on the Microsoft Learn site, the Microsoft Release Planner or can be downloaded as PDFs.
As part of the 2023 Wave 1 Release Plan, Microsoft simplified the process of connecting to external data and creating virtual tables from within the Maker portal. This process makes creating these connections very easy, and results can be seen in a manner of minutes. Configuration is now at the fingertips of citizen developers as well.
Cards for Power Apps are a new way to design and deliver mini-apps to Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Teams using Power FX/low-code.
In late July, Microsoft announced the preview of Dependent Assemblies, which would allow the ability to register individual assemblies, and upload a nuget package that contains both the plugin assembly and the dependent assembly. Previously, the only way this was available was the use of the ILMerge tool to manually merge dependent assemblies.
In late July, Microsoft announced the preview of Dependent Assemblies, which would allow the ability to register individual assemblies, and upload a nuget package that contains both the plugin assembly and the dependent assembly. Previously, the only way this was available was the use of the ILMerge tool to manually merge dependent assemblies.
The Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio provide the ability to quickly create, debug and deploy plugings. There are some other capabilities that are still currently in preview, such as the deployment of custom workflow activities, web resources and other integration components.
On Monday last week, Microsoft announced the preview of Formula Columns in Dataverse. Formula Columns have been available in Dataverse for Teams for quite some time now, but are now (as part of the next release wave) will become available in Dataverse as well.
Earlier this year in March, as part of the 2022 Release Wave 1, Microsoft introduced the Modern Advanced find to replaced what we have known as Advanced find for the past 20 years or so. It was definitely time to modernize this, but there were a few shortcomings to this new release which caused many customers to hold off and wait until the missing functionality has been developed and made available to customers.
