Category: Release Waves

Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Release Waves

2021 release wave 2, Canvas Apps, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power Platform, Unified Interface (UCI)

Power Platform 2021 Release Wave 2 Maker Portal Updates – Converged Apps

In preparation for our upcoming NYC BizApps event on October 27, 2021, and the Power Platform 2021 Wave 2 release (weekend of October 23/24), I am writing a series of blog posts related to some of the most sought after updates. In this post we will review the new converged apps.

Converged apps allows us to converge a Model-Driven App and a Canvas App into a single app. This does not change the ability to create standalone Canvas Apps, but only the ability to have them available in a single app. The link below details the changes that were announced at the end of July.

2021 release wave 2, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power Platform, Unified Interface (UCI)

Power Platform 2021 Release Wave 2 Maker Portal Updates – App and SiteMap Designer

In preparation for our upcoming NYC BizApps event on October 27, 2021, and the Power Platform 2021 Wave 2 release (weekend of October 23/24), I am writing a series of blog posts related to some of the most sought after updates. In this post we will review the new app designer and sitemap designer.

2021 release wave 2, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power Platform

Power Platform 2021 Release Wave 2 Maker Portal Updates – Solution Explorer

In preparation for our upcoming NYC BizApps event on October 27, 2021, and the Power Platform 2021 Wave 2 release (weekend of October 23/24), I am writing a series of blog posts related to some of the most sought after updates. This first update is the redesigned solution explorer.
There are quite a bit of update with the new solution explorer, so I will not review all of them, but just some highlights about them.

2021 release wave 1, Azure, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power Platform

New Dataverse functionality in creation of App Users

In late 2019, I wrote a blog article on how to configure oAuth authentication for Dataverse by creating an App Registration record in Azure, and the configuring the App Registration/User account in your Dataverse environment so that it can be consumed as an Application User or Service Principal.

2021 release wave 1, Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Unified Interface (UCI)

2021 release wave 1 plan – First Look – Power Apps Model-Driven Apps

A few days, on January 27th, Microsoft release the documentation for the 2021 release wave 1 plan. As there are hundreds of doc pages containing the features that will be released between April and September 2021. You will be able to get access to some of these features starting the beginning of February (in preview mode), and then it will be rolled out to the different regions in April.

2020 release wave 2, Dynamics 365, Unified Interface (UCI)

Email enhancements in 2020 Wave 2 Release Plan

With the release of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform 2020 Release Wave 2, Microsoft has made several enhancements related to the email experience in model-driven apps. This post will cover the email file attachment enhancements as well as the new experience for email templates.

2020 release wave 2, Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Unified Interface (UCI)

Document Generation Enhancements in 2020 Release Wave 2

With the release of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform 2020 Release Wave 2, Microsoft has made some enhancements to the document generation capabilities and file attachments in model-driven apps. This first post will cover the document generation capabilities and the generation of pdf documents based on document templates.

2020 release wave 2, Customer Service, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, Power Apps

Customer Service Workspace (Preview) in 2020 Wave 2 Release Plan

For anyone who has experience with Microsoft Omni channel interface, and has enabled the 2020 Wave 2 Release Plan, there is a new app that appeared with the name Customer Service Workspace (Preview). As noted in the release plan, the multisession app allows customer service agent to multitask on several customer cases simultaneously and seamlessly switch among issues without losing context of the in-progress work.

2020 release wave 2, Portals, Power Apps, Power Platform, PowerApps Component Framework (PCF), Unified Interface (UCI)

Power Platform 2020 Release Wave 2 plan

Today, July 8, 2020, Microsoft released the Power Platform and Microsoft Dynamics 365 2020 Release Wave 2 plan documentation with a list of all the features that will be made available in the Wave 2 timeframe which starts October 2020 until March 2021. Going through all of the features is almost impossible unless you want a few hundred pages of documentation.