Gain deep insights into your Power Platform adoption with the CoE Starter Kit

Manuela Pichler, Principal Program Manager, Monday, May 4, 2020

The Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit is a set of templates that are designed to help get started with developing a strategy for adopting, maintaining and supporting the Power Platform, with a focus on Power Apps and Power Automate. A core part of the CoE Starter Kit is a Power BI Dashboard that provides you with a holistic view with visualizations and insights into resources in your tenant: environments, apps, flows, connectors, connection references, makers and audit logs. In this post, discover what’s new and what you can learn from the dashboard.

New Data Loss Prevention capabilities in public preview

Anupma Sharma, Power Platform Admin Governance, Monday, April 27, 2020

Power Platform Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies now support following new features in Public Preview –  Powerful Controls : Ability to block connectors in addition to existing ability to classify connectors as ‘Business’ or ‘Non-business’  Intuitive UX : Ability to configure DLP Policies using Power Platform Admin Center (PPAC) UX Strong Fundamentals : Ability to classify HTTP connectors using PPAC UX 

Announcing the public preview of canvas components and Power Apps component framework

Hemant Gaur, Principal Program Manager, Thursday, February 27, 2020

Today, the Power Apps team is excited to announce the public preview for two core canvas apps UI extensibility areas – Canvas components and Power Apps component framework. Both these features contribute directly towards Power Apps mission – Empower every developer to do more.

Update to the Power Platform Center of Excellence Starter Kit

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

Update to the Power Apps and Power Automate Administration and Governance Whitepaper is now available

Manuela Pichler, Principal Program Manager, Thursday, December 19, 2019

Learn about administration and governance of the Microsoft Power Platform by reading our updated Power Apps and Power Automate Governance and Deployment Whitepaper.

Exporting CDS data to Azure Data Lake is Generally Available

Sabin Nair, Principal Group Program Manager, Thursday, October 31, 2019

Preview announcement for Export to data lake service. The Export to data lake service enables continuous replication of Common Data Service entity data to Azure data lake which can then be used to run analytics such as Power BI reporting, ML, data warehousing or other downstream integration purposes. It simplifies the technical and administrative complexity of operationalizing entities for analytics and managing schema and data. Within a matter of minutes, customers will be able to link their Common Data Service environment to a data lake in their Azure subscription, select standard or customer entities and export it to data lake. Any data or metadata changes (initial and incremental) in the Common Data Service is automatically pushed to the Azure data lake without any additional actions.

Establishing an Environment Strategy for Microsoft Power Platform

Denise Moran, Program Manager, Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Environments are containers that administrators can use to manage apps, flows, connections, and other assets; along with permissions to allow organization users to use the resources. The purpose of this article is to walk through important details about environments in the Power Platform and discuss recommended ways to benefit from proactively managing them.

Announcing PowerApps updates at the Microsoft Business Applications October Virtual Launch Event

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, Tuesday, October 8, 2019

The Microsoft business applications virtual launch event is almost here! You don’t want to miss this opportunity to get a first-hand look at the new innovations we’re rolling out for PowerApps. Register today for this free event, and then tune in to the live stream on October 10, 2019 from 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Pacific Time.

Announcing the general availability of the PowerApps component framework for model-driven applications and PowerApps CLI

Hemant Gaur, Principal Program Manager, Tuesday, October 1, 2019

The PowerApps component framework for model-driven applications along with PowerApps CLI have been released to general availability.

Provisioning and administration updates are now live in the Power Platform Admin center

Varun Dewan, Senior Product Manager, Monday, August 19, 2019

Announcing some great improvements that are now available globally in the Power Platform Admin center.