Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Release Waves
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.
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.
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.
