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2021 release wave 2, Canvas Apps, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power Platform, Unified Interface (UCI)

Power Platform 2021 Release Wave 2 Maker Portal Updates – Converged Apps

In preparation for our upcoming NYC BizApps event on October 27, 2021, and the Power Platform 2021 Wave 2 release (weekend of October 23/24), I am writing a series of blog posts related to some of the most sought after updates. In this post we will review the new converged apps.

Converged apps allows us to converge a Model-Driven App and a Canvas App into a single app. This does not change the ability to create standalone Canvas Apps, but only the ability to have them available in a single app. The link below details the changes that were announced at the end of July.

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2021 release wave 2, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power Platform, Unified Interface (UCI)

Power Platform 2021 Release Wave 2 Maker Portal Updates – App and SiteMap Designer

In preparation for our upcoming NYC BizApps event on October 27, 2021, and the Power Platform 2021 Wave 2 release (weekend of October 23/24), I am writing a series of blog posts related to some of the most sought after updates. In this post we will review the new app designer and sitemap designer.

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2021 release wave 2, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power Platform

Power Platform 2021 Release Wave 2 Maker Portal Updates – Solution Explorer

In preparation for our upcoming NYC BizApps event on October 27, 2021, and the Power Platform 2021 Wave 2 release (weekend of October 23/24), I am writing a series of blog posts related to some of the most sought after updates. This first update is the redesigned solution explorer.
There are quite a bit of update with the new solution explorer, so I will not review all of them, but just some highlights about them.

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Dataverse, Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Unified Interface (UCI)

Removing your Command Bar Unmanaged Active Layer in Model Driven Apps

In the last few months I have been working on upgrading the customer´s unmanaged environments to managed. The customer had been working with unmanaged environments for about 5 years, and after joining, this has been one of the first things that I determined would be needed for this customer.

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Dataverse, Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power Platform

Admin Center Changes for Users, Teams and Roles

A couple of months ago, I wrote a post about changes on the creation of Application Users and the ability to manage this via the Power Platform Admin Center. Not much time has passed, and a few additions have been added to the Admin Center, which allows to manage Users, Teams and Security Roles. We are still missing some functionality to reach parity with the classic interface, but we are on our way.

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Canvas Apps, Power Apps, Power Platform, Unified Interface (UCI)

Custom Page and Command Bars in Model-driven Apps

In the last few days, Microsoft made some big announcements related to new features that are not available in public preview. These are the Public Preview of Custom Pages for converging mode-driven apps and canvas apps as well as the command designer for model-driven apps with Power FX (which is still in preview).

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2021 release wave 1, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power Platform, Unified Interface (UCI)

New Model-Driven App Designer

Yesterday, June 8th, Microsoft announced the public preview availability of the new Model-Driven App Designer (or Modern App Designer). You can read about the announcement on the Microsoft Power Apps blog in the link below

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Canvas Apps, Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power Platform, Unified Interface (UCI)

Fix Embedded Canvas App error in iOS 14 devices

A few days ago, while performing some QA tasks on a project that I am working on, we noticed that one of our embedded Canvas Apps was no longer working on an Apple iPad device. We were getting an error that was related to cookies not being enabled on the device, but after looking at the organization policy and the settings on the device we found out that was not the case.

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2021 release wave 1, Azure, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power Platform

New Dataverse functionality in creation of App Users

In late 2019, I wrote a blog article on how to configure oAuth authentication for Dataverse by creating an App Registration record in Azure, and the configuring the App Registration/User account in your Dataverse environment so that it can be consumed as an Application User or Service Principal.

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