Something that is causing a lot of confusion in the Power Platform community at the moment is trying to figure out the impact of request limits. Particularly for organizations with "legacy" Dynamic CRM instances that load data from back end systems into Dataverse on a regular basis. Many of these integration processes were built long before Dynamics CRM transitioned to the … [Read more...] about Power Platform Requests – Base Request Capacity
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Power Automate Desktop – UI Flow
In a recent blog post I showed how you can use the Form Processing capabilities in AI Builder to extract the details of invoices received as email attachments. In this post, I am going to expand on this and take this invoice information and use a UI Flow to submit the invoice details to a legacy application. UI Flows provide RPA, Robotic Processing, Automation, capabilities to … [Read more...] about Power Automate Desktop – UI Flow
Dataverse Anonymization
Many organizations require that personal data in non-production Dataverse environments is anonymized. This may be company policy or a legal requirement such as GDPR which governs the collection and processing of personal information in the European Union. Here is a quick tip on how to use the Bulk Data Updater for XrmToolBox to anonymize Dataverse data. In case you are not … [Read more...] about Dataverse Anonymization
Dataverse Metadata in Synapse
When you configure Synapse Link for Dataverse it exports your Dataverse data into a Synapse data lake as CSV files. A database with external tables is created automatically in the Serverless SQL pool providing access to the data in the CSV files. You can then connect to the serverless SQL pool and use SQL to query the data. The tables in the serverless pool are in a raw state. … [Read more...] about Dataverse Metadata in Synapse
Synapse Link for Dataverse – Option Sets
On November 23 Microsft announced that DES (Data Export Services) will be deprecated and will reach end of life in November 2022. Microsoft is recommending that customers use Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse instead. DES has been around for a number of years and generally works well pushing Dataverse data to SQL Azure or to on-premise SQL Server using a data gateway. Azure … [Read more...] about Synapse Link for Dataverse – Option Sets
Custom Pages – Multiple Screens
The introduction of custom pages within model-driven apps is the start of the long-awaited convergence of model-driven apps and canvas apps. Adding a custom page to your model-driven app gives you complete control over how the user interface looks and behaves. Coupled with the ability to connect to multiple data sources you can now create a single Power App with massive … [Read more...] about Custom Pages – Multiple Screens
Power Apps Automated Testing with Playwright
Playwright is an open-source web testing library developed by Microsoft that can be used for testing modern web apps. You can use Playwright to create test scripts for your Power Apps and use these to run automated tests. Some of the benefits of using Playwright are it supports the three major browser engines Chromium, WebKit and Firefox. auto-wait for elements to be … [Read more...] about Power Apps Automated Testing with Playwright
Power Automate Desktop – Document Automation
At Ignite this year Microsoft announced that anybody running Windows 10 can now use Power Automate Desktop for free. Power Automate Desktop empowers users to automate repetitive tasks they run on their Windows desktops. In this post I wanted to demonstrate some of its extensive capabilities by using Power Automate Desktop for Document Automation extracting the contents of … [Read more...] about Power Automate Desktop – Document Automation
Identity Reader – AI Builder
On Friday Microsoft announced the addition of the ID Reader model to AI Builder. I thought I might give it a quick go and I must admit I was pretty impressed. It is incredible some of the AI capabilities in the Power Platform that you can leverage without any coding skills. This prebuilt model allows you to extract identity information from passports and also US driving … [Read more...] about Identity Reader – AI Builder
MB-600 – Solution Architect – Supportability
I recently did the Microsoft MB-600 exam which is the final exam to qualify as Dynamics 365 + Power Platform Solution Architect Expert which is a bit of a mouthful. I think the title reflects the fact that being a Solution Architect is transitioning from being based on Dynamics 365 to the Power Platform. I would expect the certification title will change to "Power Platform … [Read more...] about MB-600 – Solution Architect – Supportability
