Now in preview: customize Teams with built-in Power Platform capabilities

Ryan Cunningham, Director PM, Power Apps, Dienstag, 22. September 2020

The public preview of fully embedded Power Platform capabilities in Microsoft Teams is now open. Starting today, millions of Teams users can make and use custom tabs, personal apps, chat bots, and more using a powerful onboard database and approachable low-code tools from the Power Platform.  As the world continues to adapt to the reality of Remote Work, tailoring the digital workplace to meet the needs of rapidly transforming businesses has never been more important. That’s why we are including these new capabilities at no additional cost for millions of Teams customers.

Achieve your app development goals with Power Platform and Azure

Charles Lamanna, CVP, Low Code Application Platform, Dienstag, 22. September 2020

This year at Microsoft Ignite, I’m continuing the conversation about how Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft Azure work together to enable professional developers to build and deliver applications faster and more cost effectively. Today we’re announcing a set of new capabilities across Power Platform.

Power Apps at Microsoft Ignite Virtual Conference

Clay Wesener, Principal Group Program Manager, Power Apps, Dienstag, 15. September 2020

As has been the case this entire year due to these unprecedented circumstances, we will be delivering Microsoft Ignite virtually this year September 22-24. If you have not registered already, there’s still time so we hope you take a few minutes and Register Here. Power Apps will be featured prominently during live sessions as well as several on-demand sessions. Additionally, you can join live Ask the Expert sessions to ask additional questions specific to your organization.

Announcing the new solution import experience with connections and environment variables

Casey Burke, Senior Program Manager, Dienstag, 15. September 2020

Today we’re excited to announce a broad set of new ALM capabilities for importing solutions. In addition to these modern new interfaces, now you can establish connections as well as set values for environment variables.  We’re also excited to announce that environment variables are now generally available. Together, these features address some of the largest application lifecycle management problems facing the Power Platform.

September 16th Power Apps community call: Canvas App Design, components, themes and connecting Power Virtual Agents to MS Graph

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, Montag, 14. September 2020

For the September Power Apps community call hosted by Todd Baginski has guest speakers Geetha Sivasailam walking through a collection of Power Apps tips and tricks for incredible designs. Emmanuel Gallis will then share his component and theming tools for making Power Apps application creation even faster and our final guest presenter Tomasz Poszytek will share how to connect your Power Virtual Agents Chatbots to Microsoft Graph using Power Automate flows.

Power Apps portals Web API support (public preview)

Neeraj Nandwana, Freitag, 21. August 2020

Portals Web API enables building a richer user experience inside Power Apps portals pages. You can use Web API to create, update, and delete operations across Common Data Service entities (excluding configuration entities) from your portal pages.

Troubleshoot Forms in a Model Driven App

Mark Spilde, Sr. Product Manager, Mittwoch, 19. August 2020

You can now troubleshoot forms in model driven apps using the new monitoring tool.

A Closer Look at Data Platform Capabilities in Project Oakdale

Marc Mercuri, Dienstag, 11. August 2020

Project Oakdale delivers a built-in, low-code data platform for Teams and enables everyone to easily build and deploy apps and intelligent chatbots in Teams with Microsoft Power Apps and Microsoft Power Virtual Agents. This follow up post provides additional detail on some of the key capabilities in Project Oakdale as well as some of the differences between Project Oakdale and the Common Data Service.

August 19 2020 Power Apps Community Call: Belinda Allen with Power Apps Cookbooks, Brian Knight on Practical AI Builder and Paul Stork Integrating data sources with Flows

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, Dienstag, 11. August 2020

Hosted by Power Apps MVP Todd Baginski the August Power Apps community call is adding some sizzle to this summer’s Power Apps community call lineup with three of the hottest Microsoft Power Platform MVPs covering their favorite topics

Power Apps checker now analyzes modern web syntax (up to ES9)

Austin Jones, Mittwoch, 5. August 2020

To ensure Power Apps checker continues to broaden analysis coverage as languages evolve, we recently migrated our web language rules to an ESLint plugin and now offer support for ECMAScript 2018 (ES9) syntax plus ES6 globals.