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How to Run a Manufacturing Facility Using the One Microsoft Cloud

Shayne Boyer, Principal Cloud Advocate, 29 April 2021

A manufacturing plant using Microsoft Power Platform to solve machine monitoring and servicing.

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Updates to the Azure File Storage and Excel Online (Business) connectors

Lance Delano, Principal Program Manager, 19 April 2021

Azure File Storage and Excel Online (Business) Connector upgrade

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Announcing data source environment variables

Casey Burke, Senior Program Manager, 14 April 2021

Today we’re excited to announce a vast new set of capabilities that provide enterprise grade application lifecycle management for the data sources used within canvas apps and cloud flows. Environment variables are now natively built into authoring experiences across canvas apps and flows as well as solution and solution import experiences. We’ve also added several new API’s to simplify working with environment variables in code and within automated ALM pipelines.

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Search quick actions are now customizable in model-driven Power Apps

Srihari Srinivasa, Principal Program Manager, 01 April 2021

With the addition of quick actions to the new global search experience, discovering and acting on information in model-driven apps is a lot easier. Quick actions are evolving to be configurable, so you can extend them in ways that is useful for your unique scenarios.

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Key ALM updates

Casey Burke, Senior Program Manager, 25 March 2021

This blog will cover several recent improvements for application and environment lifecycle management as well as a glimpse into our ALM roadmap. If you haven’t already, now is the time to adopt solutions and an ALM strategy!

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Power Apps makers fix your solution woes with smart XML Diffing

Alfredo Cerritos, Software Engineer II, 24 March 2021

New to Power Apps, Smart XML Diffing can be a real time saver for you and your development team. The tool is a quick gateway to review the changes between component solution layers.

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Source code files for Canvas apps

Greg Lindhorst, Principal PM Architect, 14 January 2021

Imagine using GitHub and Visual Studio Code with the text formulas of a Canvas app. Teams can collaborate on apps: they can work on private branches, diff changes, create pull requests for review, and merge into master. We are very pleased to announce the experimental release of a tool that enables these modern miracles. It is but the first step as we make application lifecycle management easier for formulas and Canvas apps.