Power Platform Boost Podcast

Nick and his family have been visiting Norway and Ulrikke and her family took them troll hunting. We talk about Power Platform environments that you can now group, personal pipelines, and news for ALM. We also highlight community content from Diana Birkelback, Matt Collins Jones, and Andrew Buteenko. 
 
News

• Environment groups (preview)
• PCF Learning Roadmap by Diana Birkelback 
• Introducing new copilot answer control (Publ...

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• New FetchXML Features and Documentation by Mark Carrington
• new Microsoft Power Platform security features 
• Serving up a seamless deployment by Anna Black
• Environment vs. Source code centric ALM approach by Benedikt Bergmann
• Block Unmanaged Customisations by Parvez Ghumra
• Pipelines for All Public Preview
• Creating Service Principals Really Easily Using Pac Cli by Carl de Souza
• What every Admin needs to know by Michael Roth and Craig...

Not a lot of news and updates this time, because this week, we have been busy at MVP Summit in Seattle, and then this weekend we traveled to Vancouver for the Canadian Power Platform Summit. That's two summits in a row! Join us from the AV studio at Microsoft's offices in Vancouver as we chat about the #MVPbuzz of the week that we have had and why we think it's valuable to go to the MVP summit. We also recap the Cana...

🎉 ONE YEAR OF BOOST!! 🎉 

Time flies when you are having fun, right? We still can't believe it has been a whole year since we started this podcast already, we are having so much fun! 

We want to give a huge 😍 THANK YOU 😍 to each and every one of you who have listened, watched, shared, liked, and commented this past year. It means the world to us. As a token of gratitude, we decided to give you a gift. It's a ✨ ...

Join us as we cover whether we would trust Michael Roth and Chris Huntingford to govern our environments, how Nick kicked Thomas Sandsør out of his comfort zone at ACDC2024, how Zoe Wilson and Kevin McDonnell are breaking copilot myths, how the detective Vivian Voss discovered how Customer Insights break if you enable blocking unmanaged customizations, how Mónica Perez showed us how to make your Canvas Apps optimize for devices, an...

In this episode, Ulrikke is recording from 25 degrees in Spain and Nick from -10 in Canada. We talk about the new feature where you can block unmanaged customizations, the new Power Pages concepts diagram from Dani Kahil, how you can deploy a copilot to SharePoint with single sign-on, a collection of copilot learnings from Katerina Chernevskaya and Yannick Reekmans' new blog post about how to call the Dataverse/D365 REST API f...

Join us as we recap ACDC 2024 - a three-day hackathon competition where we went head over the weekend. We also talk about a new decision tree for Power Pages, Solution layers, FetchXML, concurrency control in Power Automate, Microsoft Copilot, AI Builder, and Microsoft AI Tour. We are so excited about the Canadian Power Platform Summit, our joint session at EPPC, and all the other conferences we get to go to this year. 

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Join us as we talk through the parts of the 2024 Release Wave 1 for Power Platform highlights for each of the products and aspects of Power Platform. And, isn't there something missing? Find out by listening to this freshly squeezed episode - or, pre-recorded, so maybe not so fresh 🤪 

And a disclaimer; this episode was prerecorded based on the pre-released release notes, and these are living documents, so changes might have be...

GAME ON! We talk about game development on the Power Platform and if you are a participant at Arctic Cloud Developer Challenge, you don't want to miss this episode. Wink Wink ;) We also talk about Data Activator for Microsoft Fabric, Marc Smith's 30 day mentoring challenge, and Dynamics Hotdish's episode about Rethinking Azure DevOps Practices and Insights with Neil Benson. We finish of by going through which confere...

In this episode, Nick and Ulrikke reflect on the year and discuss their favorite updates and features from the Microsoft Power Platform. They highlight the impact of copilot and AI, the benefits of solution pipelines and managed environments, and the potential of Project Sophia. They also discuss the value of applied skills assessments and the importance of community events. The hosts share their personal experiences and plans for ...

This time we are all over the recent blog posts, where we highlight content from Cloud Advocates like Scott Durow and community champs like Matt Devaney and Luise Freese. And, we cover the ongoing war on "Unmanaged vs. Managed solutions" and provide a bit of context and our humble opinions.

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• Accelerate developer productivity with Microsoft Power Platform by Scott Durow
• Pro Dev Mailing List: Power Platform ...

Ulrikke and Nick are back recording in the same room with another #superexciting episode of the Power Platform BOOST Podcast. Microsoft Ignite was last week and community members everywhere may have got caught up in a game of "take a drink" every time the word "copilot" was mentioned. (Seriously - please do drink responsibly). The dynamic duo talks about copilots, AI, payment gateways, Power App improvements, co...

Nick #SuperExcited Doelman and Ulrikke #WoopWoop Akerbæk start this episode talking about Microsoft Cloud for Non-profit and the new Power Platform Enterprise Templates; Power for HR. Nick shares his hands-on experience with Low Code Plugins, and then we shout out to some great community contributors for their excellent work, like Thomas Sandsør, Elaiza Benitez, and Lisa Crosby among others.

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• Microsoft Industry Cl...

This time we bring you news and updates for Power Automate mostly, but also the notification about the missing Environment Variable and how it's tied to the Dataverse Low Code Plugins now being public preview. Nick did the Microsoft Applied Skills challenge and Ulrikke shouts out to community friends for helping her through tough times.

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Microsoft again named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterp...

We recorded this episode at Ulrikke's house! We are all over the place because we are so excited to be in the same place. Ulrikke shares news about Power Pages, we talk about creating games with Canvas Apps and Flows,  we rant about copilots (just a little), and Nick talks about the new tool Ivan Ficko created for Flow Execution History. 

Microsoft News

• Power Pages ALM with Solutions, Pipelines and Enhanced data model gener...

Microsoft Power Platform Conference 2023 is wrapping up and Nick and Ulrikke discuss the Adam Grant keynote, sessions on Power FX, and Business Process flows.

Ulrikke discusses how to plan and prepare to deliver a session at conferences, and Nick provides some tips and strategies on getting the most out of attending a conference.

Microsoft Power Platform Conference 2023
Keynote - Think Again: The Power of Know...

Today at #MPPC23, Nick learned about Managed Environments and governance from Michael Roth. Ulrikke presented a session on Styling Power Pages where Microsoft announced that Google Fonts will available soon. We got some great insights from Women & Allies Low Code panel discussion, where Azure McFarlane, Mo Osborne, Sangya Singh and Scott Durow.

Event site:
Microsoft Power Platform Conference

Sessions:

The first full conference day of the Microsoft Power Platform Conference is wrapped up with a lot of community spirit and amazing announcements.

Event site:
Microsoft Power Platform Conference

Sessions:
Creating Your First Power Automate Approval Flow in Under 25 Minutes!
Extend Your Dynamics 365 to External Users with Power Pages
Low Code Power Pages ALM

Community:
Neil Benson
Ste...

Nordic Summit is one of our favorite community events, and this year we're in Copenhagen, Denmark. Nick has fun teaching a workshop on Power Pages on Friday. Today, Saturday, we have enjoyed being with this inclusive bunch of #PowerAddict friends, learning lots of new things, and connecting with the community. 

Between us, we went to these great sessions by some of our favorite speakers:

• 👀 Looking Good, Exciting, and ...