The table creation experience in the Maker Portal has been somewhat slow, but now Microsoft has released some new features (in GA) that will make the creation of tables easier and more versatile, including uploading tables from Microsoft Excel or conversation-based table creation powered by Copilot.
The AAD Users virtual table that was added to Dataverse has been a lifesaver for a lot of applications, especially when using Power Apps licensing as they provide the full subset of Active Directory users. When using Power Apps licensing, not all users are automatically synched to the Users table, so that is a great addition.
through an opt-in preview. These controls are based on Microsoft’s Fluent design system, which most of the Microsoft product experiences follow (such as Microsoft Office and Microsoft Teams).
the team members on a project I am on mentioned that they were trying to change the width of a field in our unmanaged environment, but were not able to do this. This to me seemed a little weird, so I decided to investigate.
Up until recently the email description field or the body of the email have been stored within the Microsoft Dataverse data store. This is going to be changing in the coming months where the email description field will be moved to an Azure Blob Storage
In the last week or so, depending on your region, you might have encountered some changes in the way Security roles are accessed from the Power Platform Admin Center. While this seems to be available at this time in most Geographies, some of them might still be missing.
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.
Yesterday 3/16, Microsoft announced copilot will become available in both Microsoft 365 products as well as the Power Platform. Copilot introduces a new way of enhanced working powered with AI. These AI capabilities are available in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Power Apps, Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents and will likely become available in other Microsoft products in the future. See the articles are links below for additional information.
On March 8, Microsoft made an additional announcement that Cards for Power Apps can be sent automatically via flows using a new connector and an updated Teams connector. The cards authoring experience has also been improved making it easier to design cards that fit our business needs.
Last week, March 1, Microsoft announced the General Availability of Pipelines within the Power Platform, which will bring deployment automation capabilities into managed environments to better support makers, admins and developers. In this post, I will go over how to enable the managed environments within your tenant and configure Power Platform Pipelines for your deployment.
