Author: Shane Young

As mentioned last month, the Power Platform release wave two commenced in August. While not all of the planned features were released on schedule, some useful updates were made to model-driven apps. Model-Driven Last month we discussed polymorphic lookups in Dataverse (Preview). This month, the changes come in the form of advanced lookups in model-driven apps. Advanced lookups allow users to… Read More

I am headed out on a family vacation so I plan to keep this one short and sweet but did not want to miss the opportunity to tell you about some of the great things happening across the Power Platform. There is a little bit for everyone. Power Platform release wave 2 plan: Ride the… Read More

The year is halfway over! That is crazy to think about, so I won't. Either way, welcome to the second half of the year where Power Platform continues to rise higher and higher like the mercury here in the Northern Hemisphere. I hope you are staying cool, sitting by the pool, reading all of these… Read More

With Build being this month a lot of the announcements came out via Build and while it is a developer conference I would say most of the stuff is not traditional dev focused. I would also mention that almost nothing here is applicable today, they are more where are we headed. Speaking of headed, if… Read More

Greetings true believers! April has everything from Power Apps printing to spiffy new connectors, and even smarter AI. Sorry, I am a day late but thankfully not a dollar short. My kids had soccer (football for the rest of world) tournaments all weekend and.... I am just behind. It happens.  Power Apps: 1 - Paperless… Read More

Hello Power Platform Friends. Spring has finally sprung here in Ohio spring, so I am dying to get outside and will keep this short. Start them early! Nisha Sinha is a sixth-grader in Vancouver, Canada who wrote a kudos app for her school using Power Apps. Now students and teachers can send each other creative… Read More

Hello Power Platform Pals. Are you looking for the scoop on what Microsoft announced today at Ignite for our precious Power Platform? Then look no further. I am going to give you the breakdown of what they said and a bit of commentary on what I think of the announcement. If that doesn't sound like… Read More

Surprisingly, there was a lot this month. With Ignite coming in just a few days I am happy to report lots of little new things made their way to preview. Dataverse for Teams got some new pieces, Power BI got more security and a few more fun things. So, give it a read and get… Read More

What a fun month. Why? Because there is no theme. (My 3rd grader has been asking for help on his writing work and they are discussing themes) All of the topics are quick little wins, instead of those months where everything is about one topic. We got stuff for pro developers, kids, Power BI lovers,… Read More

Welcome to 2021. After a crazy year that saw the pace of change in Power Platform accelerate, December was a relatively quiet month. Which was nice and had visions of catching up dancing in my head. Well, that failed, I am as behind as ever. Anyway, you do not care. All you want to know… Read More

This month the theme seems to be the product formally known as Common Data Service. Thankfully they didn't change its name to a symbol, instead, they now call it Dataverse

This month there was lots of fun with Flow and Power BI. I feel like my favorite child, Power Apps, was slacking. O'well. You know what is really crazy? I had a big glass of positivity while I was writing this so everything is so exciting. ? I never know what is going to happen… Read More

With Ignite being this month there is a lot going on but let us be clear. The most important announcement this month is Project Oakdale. That is the code name of the Power Platform directly integrating with Microsoft Teams and it is a major game-changer. I will try to cover more than just that but… Read More

I am so excited! (Sorry I tried to write a boring press release style article but that is not me. ?) At Ignite today Microsoft announced that Project Oakdale is available in public preview. Project Oakdale is the addition of a data platform into Microsoft Teams. Now you can build apps, workflows, dashboards, and chatbots… Read More

Ignite is right around the corner but August had a few PowerApp updates that you should know about.