Exporting CDS data to Azure Data Lake is Generally Available

Sabin Nair, Principal Program Manager, 2019年10月31日

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, 2019年10月30日

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.

Changes to OS requirements for PowerApps mobile app

Kavishi Agarwal, Program Manager II, 2019年10月29日

Changes to OS requirements for PowerApps mobile

Azure Active Directory authentication in the SQL Server connector

Sameer Chabungbam, Principal Program Manager Lead, 2019年10月21日

We recently added support for Active Directory authentication in the SQL Server connector. This has been one of the most requested feedback from our customers. In this post, I want to give an overview of how you can use this feature, and some of the underlying design changes we had to bring about in the platform.

Introducing Monitor to debug apps and improve performance

Greg Lindhorst, Principal PM Architect, 2019年10月18日

You now have a new tool to better understand, debug, and improve your apps.  Similar to a network trace, Monitor provides a running list of all the activity within your app.   You can examine what data requests are made from your app, how long they took, how much data was returned, and which resulted in an error. 

On-premises data gateway management via PowerShell (Public Preview)

Arthi Ramasubramanian Iyer, 2019年10月16日

Pubic preview- PowerShell gateway

Add-on allocation for PowerApps, Microsoft Flow and AI Builder is now available

Evan Chaki, Principal Group Program Manager, 2019年10月15日

We announced in July licensing options for PowerApps and Microsoft Flow.  These are available to purchase from the Office admin center and you can now allocate add-ons in the Power Platform Admin center.

Island Council of Tenerife organizes community events using the Power Platform

Sameer Bhangar, Principal Program Manager, 2019年10月15日

Look at how the Insular Management for Sport, Culture and Leisure (IDECO), a company of the Island Council of Tenerife, the governing body for the Canary Islands, is using PowerApps for Ansina, their program of sociocultural dynamization and social intervention tailored towards the elderly.

Canvas Rules feature deprecation

Emma Cooper, Senior Program Manager, 2019年10月14日

Rules in canvas apps is a feature that let you record actions to be performed under a condition which you can write an expression for. The current implementation of the Rules feature will be phased out.

PowerApps Portals are now Generally Available

Dileep Singh, 2019年10月14日

I am excited to announce that PowerApps Portals are now generally available.