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Do more with data – From Data Export Service to Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse

Sabin Nair, Principal Program Manager, November 23, 2021

Today, we are announcing deprecation of Data Export Service (DES); an add-on feature available via Microsoft AppSource which provides the ability to replicate data from Microsoft Dataverse to an Azure SQL store in a customer-owned Azure subscription. Data Export Service will continue to work and will be fully supported until it reaches end-of-support and end-of-life a year from this announcement date, in November 2022. This notice is to allow you sufficient time to plan and onboard to Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse which is a successor to Data Export Service.

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GA release of Large file and Image support in Power Apps canvas and UCI

Lance Delano, Principal Program Manager, October 18, 2021

GA Support for File and Image in Power App Canvas

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Announcing Public Preview of Maintenance Window Management!

Sachin Mathur, September 2, 2021

Maintenance Window Management is a brand new capability for admins to configure App & DB update maintenance schedule at an environment level utilizing the Power Platform Admin Center.

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Announcing Monitor model-driven apps using Application Insights (Preview)

TJ Vassar, August 1, 2021

Use Application Insights to monitor & analyze service telemetry data produced by UCI page and form loads, Platform API calls, custom plug-ins, and more.

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Multi-table lookups now available! (Preview)

Nathan Helgren, July 6, 2021

Multi-table lookups (also sometimes known as Polymorphic Lookups) allow the creation of a lookup in one table that looks up records in multiple other tables at once. This provides much greater flexibility in retrieving data within your environments. With multi-table lookups, you can perform a lookup on 2 or more tables at the same time and locate the record you want from the referenced tables.

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New support for image and file data types in Dataverse customer managed key (CMK) environments

Nathan Helgren, June 18, 2021

All CMK organizations as of version: 9.2.21052.00103 can now support the use of the Dataverse file column (aka file data type) and Image column (Image Data Type)

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Important New Feature: Relationship Validation for Solutions

Nathan Helgren, June 4, 2021

Until now it was all too easy to create and publish a solution and overlook the backing relationships needed for the lookups that are present in the tables. A new feature will help eliminate this issue. Before October, you will need to validate your existing solutions now to make sure you have included all required relationships for your lookups.

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Important Upcoming Change: Publishers can modify table properties on non-customizable tables through solutions

Nathan Helgren, June 4, 2021

A feature update is being released in October that will allow a publisher to modify table properties within their solutions even though Allow Customizations is set to off. You will need to validate your existing solutions to make sure you have no table property changes that you do not wish to occur.

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Increased Alternate Key Limits

Nathan Helgren, May 4, 2021

Dataverse is increasing the limits for Alternate Keys (previously known as Entity Keys). Prior to this change, each table was limited to 5 alternate keys.

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Dataverse demystified | Using the Power Platform’s advanced data backend for all your apps

Marc Mercuri, May 4, 2021

Check out the new demo-filled Dataverse episode of Microsoft Mechanics. The interview covers the topics we get asked about most and covers everything from building low code Power Apps with Dataverse for Teams to defining business rules to creating search powered chatbots with Power Virtual Agents to a tour of pro dev capabilities in Dataverse.

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