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Annoyances, Features

Your Power Apps user settings are probably wrong

Are the date, time, number and currency fields looking funny in your app that uses Dataverse? Here's where to fix the settings & why managing them is so complex.

March 16, 2023
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Features

Share links with access to records in Model-driven Power Apps

Did you know users can now gain access to records in Dataverse even without any security roles? Time to explore how the new sharing links work.

May 24, 2022
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Annoyances, Tips

Sharing Dataverse for Teams apps outside the team

Using the "share with colleagues" feature to publish Teams based Power Apps into more than one team can be a bit tricky. Here are the steps needed to use your app outside the hosting Dataverse for Teams environment.

May 11, 2022
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Tips

Dataverse environment administration mode and storage consumption

When you restore the backup of a Dataverse environment into a new environment, it won't remain forever in its original state. As a result, storage consumption can creep up on you.

May 3, 2022
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Tips

Making Model-driven Power Apps visible (and hidden)

Managing end user access to Model-driven apps isn't as straightforward as with Canvas apps. Here's how the list of Power Apps actually works and what the "share" feature does & doesn't do for Model-driven app.

May 2, 2021
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Features

Dataverse for Teams as your CoE platform

Power Platform Center of Excellence Starter Kit can now run inside a Microsoft Teams based environment. How can all those features fit in there?

April 13, 2021
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News and events

PPAC is your new Dynamics 365 Admin Center

Power Platform Admin Center has taken the place of the old CRM era admin tools. Where are the features now and what's different for Dynamics 365 admins?

July 3, 2020
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Features, News and events

First impressions on Power Platform 2020 Release Wave 1

On Jan 27th Microsoft published their plans for the upcoming 2020 Release Wave 1. We have a lot to digest once again, so here are my top picks from the Power Platform side of Microsoft Business Applications. If you don't have time to read through 100+ pages, then maybe you should start checking out these features and work your way through the rest.

January 28, 2020
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Analysis, Licensing

Licensing is NOT a security mechanism

Licensing remains a topic that no one claims to like yet everyone keeps on talking about. October 2019 saw what was undoubtedly the biggest number of changes to Microsoft Business Applications SKUs (i.e. items that MS sells), with the end…

October 28, 2019
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Features

Keeping Dynamics 365 Apps Up to Date

We’re living in the “post-October” era where many of the new Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement features promised in the Oct ’18 Release are materializing into the live environments. Not all of them, though, since that space train carrying the Business…

November 5, 2018
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