How to Run a Manufacturing Facility Using the One Microsoft Cloud

Shayne Boyer, Principal Cloud Advocate, Thursday, April 29, 2021

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

Power CAT Adoption Maturity Model: Repeatable patterns for successful Power Platform adoption

Manuela Pichler, Principal Program Manager, Wednesday, April 28, 2021

The Power CAT team (Customer Advisory Team) is a team of solution architects within Microsoft Power Platform engineering focused on helping customers accelerate their Microsoft Power Platform adoption. In collaboration with some of our most successful customers, we have identified consistent themes, patterns, practices and behaviours that underpin the progress of successful organizations as they implement comprehensive digital transformation with Power Platform. The result of this work is the Power CAT Adoption Maturity Model.

Join us for Microsoft Business Applications Summit! May 4th, 2021

Heather Newman, Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Join CVP, Charles Lamanna, and Ryan Cunningham, and the Power Apps Team on May 4th, 2021 at Microsoft Business Applications Summit!

Improve data density with High-Density Headers in model-driven apps.

Mark Spilde, Sr. Product Manager, Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Build high productive forms with High-Density form headers.

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

Lance Delano, Principal Program Manager, Monday, April 19, 2021

Azure File Storage and Excel Online (Business) Connector upgrade

April 2021 Power Apps Community Call: persistent apps in Teams tabs, custom functions libraries and gestalt design principles

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, Sunday, April 18, 2021

The April Power Apps community call will be covering: ‘Make your Power Apps sessions persistent when switching Teams tabs!’. Power Apps custom Functions Library and Rory Neary will deliver the final technical session on Make your Power Apps user experience awesome with Gestalt design principles. When: March 17, 2021 8AM Pacific Time Where: https://aka.ms/powerappscall-join

April 22nd Vancouver Power Apps User Group: Building a quiz app with Power Apps and Sharepoint by May Alhajri and Scott Durow

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, Saturday, April 17, 2021

In this months Power Apps User Group, May Alhajri will build a quiz by using Power Apps and Sharepoint as our data source. When: April 22nd, 2021 6pm PST Where: https://aka.ms/VancouverUG

Product Update: F&O apps now available in ISV Studio!

Zankar Desai, Principal Product Manager, Wednesday, April 14, 2021

ISV Studio is a technical benefit of the ISV Connect program and is designed to be the platform that allows an ISV to monitor the success of their published apps. ISV Studio now shows telemetry for F&O apps in addition to Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement apps.

Announcing data source environment variables

Casey Burke, Principal Product Manager, Wednesday, April 14, 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. 

Now available: CoE Starter Kit in Dataverse for Teams (and other improvements)

Manuela Pichler, Principal Program Manager, Thursday, April 8, 2021

We are excited to announce that the CoE Starter Kit can now be installed in Dataverse for Teams environments. You can now make the Admin, Governance and Nurture templates in the kit a core part of your collaboration with admins, makers and end users in Teams.