Shane Young

Happy back-to-school season Makers! This month we’re looking at some features across Canvas Apps, Power BI, and Power Automate.   One click and your Canvas App is offline ready  Built-in offline mode for canvas apps is moving from Experimental Preview to Public Preview in September 2023! Makers will be able to quickly take their canvas app…

It was a busy August and I took the long weekend off, so I’m a few days late to cover everything that’s new with Microsoft’s Power Platform in August 2023. Either way, let’s get started with the most interesting Power Platform updates that came in August, say goodbye to the summer, and here is hoping…

Summer is in full swing, and it is hot out there! Speaking of hot things, Microsoft just released last month the 2023 Release Plan Wave 2 for its Power Platform, which details updates coming between October 2023 and March 2024. Let’s take a look at what’s in the pipeline!   Power Apps: More upcoming AI-assisted features…

As Microsoft is still busy implementing AI-powered Copilot experiences across all of its cloud services, this month we’re going to take a look at some of the quieter features Microsoft added to its Power Platform to help makers be more efficient and secure when building apps. Delegation improvements for Power Apps Anybody who’s ever built…

As a true Power Platform guy, I watched the breaking headlines from Microsoft Build 2023 last month and came away with 2 words to caption the bulk of it: Copilot Everywhere! Microsoft’s powerful AI service is making its way into various Power Platform and Microsoft 365 products. Imagine having an intelligent assistant at your fingertips…

This month, as promised, we’re seeing the Microsoft Power Platform lean into AI enhancements. Many of these new AI-powered features are genuinely useful, and they should certainly improve as users provide feedback to the company. As I always advise, you shouldn’t use experimental features in production apps, but once they cross the threshold to preview,…

Did someone say it’s already Spring? It sure feels like it with all of the Microsoft Power Platform changes and new AI-enhanced features that the company touted in March. Don’t worry though, we’ll whet your appetite and provide some links below. New Microsoft 365 Copilot If you missed the announcement of the Microsoft 365 Copilot…

As part of Microsoft’s ongoing investment in its Power Platform, the company recently published its Power Platform 2023 release wave 1 plan, which details new features that will be released between April and September 2023. In the meantime, the company introduced several new features for PowerBI and Dataverse in February, so let’s take a look at the…

There have been some exciting new developments within the Power Apps and Power Automate spaces in January. We’ve had an interesting spin on pay-as-you-go licensing, a new Shared Device Mode for frontline workers, a cool new way to work with SharePoint data in Dataverse, plus that big AI revolution that everyone is talking about. Overall,…

Power Automate is a workflow service that allows you to automate many different actions across common apps and services. You can use it to automate just about anything you do by using what we call “flows”, which are a series of instructions you tell Power Automate to do for you. In this article, we’ll show you…

Happy new year, Power Platform Community!  As we all move into the new year, let’s take a look at the latest updates Microsoft announced for its Power Platform in December. We’ll be highlighting the ones we are most excited about in this article. Power BI Slicer Type The Power BI team has moved the Slicer…

After a series of exciting Power Platform announcements from Ignite in October, Microsoft has been focusing on its Power Automate desktop app this month with a new client update and process mining features. In November, we’re also getting a preview of a PowerFX formula repair tool and Power Apps developer tools. Microsoft also had an…