Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services Trial Failure

When we need to create Proof of Concepts, test products that we need to implement for our projects and or provide demos to our clients, at many times consultants and even partners use demo environments and products provided by Microsoft (and other organizations) in order to assist them in these cases.

Merging Solutions from multiple instances

Have you worked on a project with multiple teams where you need to update the changes from all instances into a single integration instance? There are multiple options for doing this, some manually and some automated, but in this post I will discuss a little hack (using Azure DevOps for deployment) that can be used to deploy the separate solutions into a single solution in the target instance.

Power Apps Named Formulas

Last Friday, September 16th, Microsoft introduced Name Formulas to Power FX. Named Formulas, and old concept that has been part of Microsoft Excel for a long time has now been brough to Power FX (currently experimental only). With Named Formulas we can simplify app initialization, reduce load time and logic and improve overall app maintenance

Microsoft Announces Power Pages

In today’s keynote session of Microsoft Build, Charles Lamanna, Corporate Vice President of Business Applications and Platform announced the preview of Microsoft Power Pages, the fifth product in the Microsoft Power Platform family. Power Pages is not entirely a new product but the evolution of Power Apps Portals. For many …

Collaboration enhancements in 2022 Release Plan Wave 1

Collaboration seems to have been on Microsoft’s roadmap for some time now, and with the updates to the Power Platform in the 2022 Wave 1 Release Plan, there are a few enhancements in this collaboration space for Model Driven apps. In this post, I will go over some of these enhancements and demonstrate how this functionality is used and displayed in your dataverse environment.

Modern Advanced Find in Unified Interface – 2022 Release Wave 1

The Advanced Find features in the Microsoft Dynamics and the Power Platform has gone back since the inception of the product, and not many changes have been done throughout the years. We have seen some of the plans in the last release with table level filtering, but with the upcoming release of the Power Platform 2022 Release Wave 1, the Advanced Find is getting a makeover.

2022 Wave 1 Release Power Apps Read Only Grid

In the last Power Platform Release Wave, 2021 Wave 2, Microsoft released some enhancements to the grid control that is displayed in views and subgrids. In the upcoming release, 2022 Wave 1, Microsoft has replaced this grid control with a new read-only that will be part of this release.

Embedded Canvas App Performance Enhancements

In the last few months, I have been working on a migration project for a customer from a legacy system to Dataverse, and one of the functionalities included an embedded Canvas app containing multiple screens and quite a bit of functionality. The main issue that was encountered is that within some geographical regions it was taking a longer time than expected to load the app.

Audit Retention enhancements in Power Platform Admin Center

A couple of days ago, on February 11th, Microsoft introduced a new set of audit features that will help administrators manage internal and external auditing requirements within Dataverse. Currently auditing is used to track changes that are made on the organization records and user access so that these can be reviewed at a later date.

The main issue that is encountered by many organizations relates to the retention policy of audit logs. Until this new changes, there was no retention policy for auditing, and auditing would be kept forever unless manually deleted by the system administrator.