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Author: Jo Karnes
Power Platform Center of Excellence Starter Kit App Review – Core Apps
Continuing our Series on the Power Platform Center of Excellence Starter Kit! Get an overview of some of the core apps that are included with the kit.
Power Platform Center of Excellence Starter Kit App Review – Power Platform Admin View
This is a series on the Microsoft Power Platform Center of Excellence starter Kit, and the various Apps, Dashboards, and Features that are included in it. The topic of this post is to discuss the Power Platform Admin View App. At the core of the Starter kit, the Power Platform Admin View App is designed…
Power Platform Center of Excellence Starter Kit App Review – Command Center
This is a series on the Microsoft Power Platform Center of Excellence starter Kit, and the various Apps, Dashboards, and Features that are included in it. The topic of this post is to discuss the Command Center. Included in the Power Platform CoE starter kit, is a fairly recent (2022) addition to the starter kit,…
Governance Models for the Power Platform
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…
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…