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January 2020

Driving Employee Training Using Microsoft Power Platform

Shailja Nair, Wednesday, 29 January, 2020

How do you enable a line of business with 4000+ employees, across multiple geographic locations, to attend a mandatory in-person training event closest to their location, with a limit of 150 attendees per session and a target completion of 12 weeks Microsoft BAG (Business Applications Group) Operations team used Power Apps Portals from the Microsoft Power Platform to quickly and painlessly enable employees to register, manage, and complete the mandatory training.

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Introducing simplified AI Builder experience in Power Automate

Antonio Rodrigues, Wednesday, 29 January, 2020

In the January 2020 update, AI Builder introduces a new and simplified way to use AI Models in Power Automate. It is now easier to provide your data to the AI Model, and to use the output without the need to manually transform data.

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Microsoft Stream videos and channels in canvas apps

Filip Karadzic, Senior Program Manager, Tuesday, 28 January, 2020

Enhance your canvas apps with playback of Microsoft Stream videos and channels.

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Introducing Test Studio to build end-to-end tests and maintain your app quality

Aengus Heaney, Senior Program Manager, Tuesday, 28 January, 2020

Use Test Studio to build end-to-end tests, and maintain your app quality by continually validating your app works as expected when new changes are deployed.

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Introducing the SAP ERP connector

Sameer Chabungbam, Principal Program Manager Lead, Wednesday, 22 January, 2020

SAP is one of the largest providers of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software in the market today, handling an enterprise’s business applications like accounting, sales, payroll, finance, production, human resources, etc. We are happy to announce the public preview of a new SAP ERP connector for Power Apps and Power Automate. The SAP ERP connector allows you to connect your flows and apps to an SAP ERP system – either SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA. In this post, we will walk you on how to get started with this new connector.

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Deprecation of the regional Discovery Service and its replacement with the global Discovery Service

Mik Ferland, Program Manager, Tuesday, 21 January, 2020

Microsoft is announcing the deprecation and shut down of all regional endpoints for the Discovery Service and the Discovery APIs in the Organization Service (SOAP endpoint). They are replaced by a single global discovery service accessed through the existing ‘discovery’ OData V4 RESTful endpoint. Please ensure your administrators and IT professionals have the information they need to prepare for these changes.

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Power Platform Content at Community Summit Barcelona March 10-12

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, Tuesday, 21 January, 2020

March 10-12, 2020 the Power Platform product team will be in Barcelona for the Community Summit which brings users and partners of the Microsoft Business Applications platform together to learn, collaborate, and connect about Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Applications.

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Update to the Power Platform Center of Excellence Starter Kit

Manuela Pichler, Principal Program Manager, Monday, 13 January, 2020

Announcing Updates to the Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit – a set of templates that are designed to help get started with developing a strategy for adopting and supporting the Power Platform, with a focus on Power Apps and Power Automate.

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Jan 17 Webinar: Integrating Bot Framework Skills with Power Virtual Agents

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, Saturday, 11 January, 2020

We are excited to announce that the modular and reusable conversation Bot Framework skills can be integrated with Power Virtual Agents. January 17th 12:00pm PST Senior Program’s Pawan Taparia and Managers Murali Kumanduri from the Power Virtual Agents team will be hosting a live webinar to walk through what Bot Framework Skills are, how to integrate Bot Framework Skills with Power Virtual Agents and what was just updated with SDK version 4.7 launch.

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January 2020 Power Apps community call: Introduction to Solutions and Power Virtual Agents

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, Friday, 10 January, 2020

Kicking off 2020 we will be covering two of the hottest Power Platform topics: Power Apps solutions and Power Virtual Agents.

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