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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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Tips

A few notes on the Timeline: model-driven Power Apps form tweaks

Notes rollup, multiple Timelines per form, customizable actions, modal dialogs for detail forms - there's so many settings to optimize with this control in 2022 Release Wave 2.

October 26, 2022
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Configuration, Tips

How to control the lookup view columns for a customer field

The customer lookup column in Dataverse has special behaviors that you need to know when configuring fields for Model-driven Power Apps form.

January 7, 2022
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Licensing, News and events

Is Dynamics 365 data now “free” in Microsoft Teams?

At Microsoft Inspire 2021, an announcement was made on supporting Collaborative Apps scenarios in Teams at no extra cost. What does this mean for Dynamics 365 customers in terms of exposing their CRM data to wider audience?

July 14, 2021
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Licensing

Why Power Platform licensing is complex, part 2: multiplexing

The low-code tools are making it easier than ever to have data flowing between different systems and presented in a custom UI that may bypass the original enterprise applications altogether. However, this does not free you from the requirement of having a license for these systems. Welcome to the world of multiplexing.

May 7, 2020
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Licensing

Why Power Platform licensing is complex, part 1: products

The changes in how Microsoft positions the various products in its portfolio are a common source of confusion and misunderstanding on Power Apps licensing. This blog post will examine the impact that the rise of Power Platform has had on the surrounding product offerings of Office 365 and Dynamics 365.

April 20, 2020
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News and events

Time to go Forward with 2020 Wave 1 (webinar)

The Business Applications 2020 Release Wave 1 is here - and so is the first ever webinar for Team Forward Forever. Come and join us on Monday, April 6th!

April 1, 2020
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Personal

Why we’re betting on the Power Platform

We have launched a new technology agency, Forward Forever, that focuses 100% on Microsoft Power Platform. Here is some background information about the analysis we've made of the market direction and 3 main factors that are driving the change.

March 3, 2020
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Analysis

Microsoft FY20 Q2 earnings and the rise of CDP

The revenue growth from Microsoft's cloud business across Azure, Office and Dynamics is not slowing down, based on the recent quarterly results. But how will they keep up this momentum in the future? In the earnings call Satya Nadella talks about one key concept we can expect to hear a lot more in the future: Customer Data Platform (CDP).

January 30, 2020
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Licensing, News and events

Application/Platform Separation in New PowerApps Licensing Model

Ever since Spring 2018 when the XRM and PowerApps platforms merged on a commercial level, I’ve found myself spending an ever increasing number of hours per week involved in licensing discussions and scenario planning. My initial exploration of the platform…

August 12, 2019
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