So, your organization has made a decision to leverage the Power Platform, but the first question you need to ask is: “How will it be managed by the organization?” Microsoft has touted the platform as a way for business users to create low-code option for their organization, but this simplistic marketing pitch shouldn’t be the…
Author: Jo Karnes
Microsoft Power Virtual Agents – (Or, how to talk to a Machine)
One of the Big Pillars of the Power Platform is Microsoft Power Virtual Agents (or PVA’s). What is a Power Virtual Agent? Its a Chatbot! Microsoft has been delving into the Chatbot space for awhile now, especially in Teams, however, chatbots in teams have historically been developed with the Bot Framework. The Bot Framework is…
Creating a Unified Dynamics Search Experience in Canvas Apps
Recently, I had a client who was interested in building a PowerApp Canvas App for Mobile Devices that would take some of the more routine aspects of their Dynamics sales process, and provide their sales people with an easier way to do some of the tasks associated with capturing customer information. This particular client’s users…
How to Print a Form in PowerApps (redux)
Back in 2018, I wrote a blog post on how to print a form in PowerApps, which essentially involved creating an HTML report and then dumping that out to an email to be printed. While it wasn’t very pretty, it got the job done since there was no native printing support in Power Apps. Well…
Hands on with SharePoint Syntex
As of October 1st, Microsoft has released SharePoint Syntex to Microsoft 365. Now, what exactly IS SharePoint Syntex? SharePoint Syntex comes from the Project Cortex initiative from Microsoft, and it is essentially a Machine Learning service that can pull information from your documents and add it as Metadata in a SharePoint Library. As someone who…
Reduce your PowerApps licensing cost to SQL Server with Layer2 Cloud Connector
Not too long ago, Microsoft changed the way they licensed PowerApps. Before, you were able to use may of the connectors (especially SQL Server) with the licensing that came with PowerApps for Office 365. Microsoft turned that connector, and may others into “Premium Connectors”. In order to use these, you now have to license your…
Mobilize Exchange Online Powershell with Azure Functions, Flow, and PowerApps – Part 2
So, in the Previous post, we created an Azure Function that we can pass a query to and cancel a departing user’s meetings. But that’s only part of what we wanted to accomplish. Now we need to make it mobile friendly, so let’s dive in and use PowerApps and Flow to make it happen! Make…
Mobilize Exchange Online Powershell with Azure Functions, Flow, and PowerApps – Part 1
So, I recently had a colleague of mine come to me with a requirement for a PowerApp he was building. The customer wanted to be able to click a button in PowerApps, and export a SharePoint list to a CSV file. “I can do it through Powershell, but they want to be able to just…
Integration with Microsoft Teams
As Microsoft continues to make a big push with their Teams functionality, an area that can sometimes get lost in the shuffle is it’s ability to Integrate with other services Outside of the functionality in Teams, and Office 365 in general. As the functionality in Teams continues to grow, it has become apparent that Microsoft…
Live from Microsoft Build 2019!
Currently, I’m sitting at the Microsoft Build Conference in Seattle, enjoying the Conference Life, and gaining clarity on what Microsoft’s goals for their products look to be in the future. If you’re not aware, Build is the Microsoft Conference that really focuses on Development with Microsoft products, so this conference can really help highlight Microsoft…
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