January 8, 2025 • 41 mins
News
- Power Platform Plan Designer (Preview) by Nick Doelman
- How NOT to use Copilot on LinkedIn by Femke Cornelissen
- 25 experts predict how AI will change business and life in 2025 featuring Charles Lamanna by Fast Company
- Power Platform Weekly - Special Edition 4th anniversary by Carina M. Claesson, Daniel Laskewitz, Ed Gonzales, and Magnus Sørensen.
- By Nathan Rose:
- Hydrate Development Environments via Pipelines by Matt Collins-Jones
- Preview PDF files from Base64 content in Power Pages using the PDFJs library by Michel Mendes
- Power Automate Flow To Host A Web Page/Web Application by Matthew Devaney
- Website Tracking In Realtime Marketing by Megan V. Walker
- Looking to get Power Platform Certified in 2025? by Howdang Rashid
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Tallinn Technology Town Hall
January 30-31st
Developers guide to Power Pages - Nick
Canadian Power Platform Summit
March 21-22nd
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April 24-25th
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Session with Andrew Wingate: "Business Central + Power Pages = TRUE"
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May 26-28th
Nick's session on Powerlifting and mental healt
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And we're sharing this because we understand that
our listeners are probablyfeeling the exact same thing.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm sure a lot of you are out there going, oh, over
the break, I'm going to do this,I'm going to do that, and then
things may have not happened andyou comment and you write to us
the thing that you weresupposed to do over the holidays
that didn't get done, so thatwe can all share in the common
(00:31):
and then we can embrace eachother with love and generosity.
We're only human and we need abreak every now and again, and
it's okay.
Hello everyone and welcome tothe Power Platform Boost podcast
(01:02):
, your timely source of PowerPlatform news and updates, with
your hosts Nick Dolman andUlrike Ackerbeck.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Hello and Happy New Year.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Happy New Year.
How are you?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, I'm doing okay.
I think I'm fighting off alittle bit of a cold kind of of
thing, so I'll try not to coughtoo much in the microphone
during this recording.
Oh, but no, it's all good.
I had some.
I took some some good drugslast night and had a really good
sleep, so I'll be fine.
I'm not one of these man fluguys that every little thing
(01:38):
kind of takes me down.
I'm kind of like no, no, let'sjust power through it, we're
fine, I know.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, we're fine, yeah.
And plural yeah, we're fine,yeah, yeah, how?
are you, I'm good.
I had a very relaxing Christmasholiday with the kids, went to
the Canary Islands, where my dadis, and have an apartment there
, so it was all good, juststayed by the pool, did some
(02:04):
reading, did not do any workthat I was supposed to do, so
those things were right.
On Friday afternoon I tookFriday off as well, because we
got back the night of Friday,friday morning, but I opened my
laptop to kind of get a bit of asoft start.
You know, just go through theinbox and just warm up and
(02:25):
that's when it hit me.
The to-do list is like oh shoot, I promised to do this and this
and this and that the wholeweekend I've been.
It's been crappy weather, youknow, fortunately for me,
because then if it's goodweather I need to be outside,
but it was crappy weather allweekend through.
So I've been by my computerjust doing all the things I said
(02:47):
I was supposed to do over theChristmas holidays.
So you know, and that goes forthe PCF controls.
Oh, I'm sorry, no, no, no, I'mthe same.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Like it's a case of, oh, we think we have all the
time in the world and we unplug.
And then it's like, oh, I'mgoing to do this, this and this,
and then you know reality hitsin and of course then your mind,
your whole mind, changes right,you want to get into the family
stuff.
You want to.
You know eating all this foodand you know watching the
christmas movies and doing allthose things and um for for
myself and my family.
We drove out to gasby z, whichis, you know, the far side of of
(03:21):
quebec, so you know that's along drive and doing stuff there
.
You know the far side of Quebec, so you know that's a long
drive and doing stuff there.
So you know all these things.
Like, yeah, the PCF control.
I looked at it on the weekendand like, oh, yeah, we were
going to do that, so we're stillgoing to do it.
Just, we haven't done anythingyet.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Because I now have some ideas.
Yeah, me too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, and I putpressure on myself, like I said
last time, from multiple anglesnow.
So I'm going to deliver this asa POC my idea to a customer, so
I have to get it done.
It's not like, but I can dowith a few more weeks to get it
up and running, so that's goingto be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Right, and we're sharing this because we
understand that our listenersare probably feeling the exact
same thing.
I'm sure a lot of you are outthere going, oh, over the break,
I'm going to do this, I'm goingto do that, and then things may
have not happened.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And actually what we would love for you to do is you
put a comment whatever you seethe post for this episode and
you comment and you write to usthe thing that you were supposed
to do over the holidays thatdidn't get done, so that we can
all share in the common, youknow, and then we can embrace
each other with love andgenerosity, as if we're only
(04:31):
human and we need a break everynow and again.
And you say that as if youdidn't do anything, but actually
you have produced quite a bitover the holidays.
You produce videos and blogposts and stuff.
So actually you're not one ofthe slacker ones, you're the
ones that get shit done.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Well, yeah, maybe, but it was also a case of
something and I guess we'll diveright into it because, yeah,
people did get stuff done.
And let's talk about the stuffpeople did do.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, let's do it Over the brain Segway.
So this is.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I'll done and let's talk about the stuff people did.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah let's do it.
The brain segue so this is.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I'll take this as like shame, shameless
self-promotion.
Um, over the now we've allheard about uh.
At las vegas, at the powerplatform community conference
where you were there, theyannounced this thing called plan
designer, which allows you youto put in you know some, some
parameters of.
This.
Is the type of app I want tobuild and here's what I want it
(05:28):
to do.
And then going through andgenerating the plan, user
personas, generating the apps,the data model, the whole thing.
So basically, you really cutdown on that planning time and
I've always been a proponent ofdon't just start building an app
from fingers, figures onkeyboards.
Draw it out on a whiteboard, doit in a mural board, do it fold
it like, do a design, get yourrequirements, get your user
(05:49):
stories.
This feature really helps thatand I was able to be part of the
private preview program.
I got to go in early innovember and play around with
this, try it out, see what itworks, see what didn't work,
provide some feedback.
In Ignite, ryan and Ryan, ryanCunningham and Clay Wesner
(06:10):
presented the plan designer, sothe public finally got to see
what was happening with it.
And then, when I was in theMicrosoft booth, this was
something primarily, we showedoff a lot.
A lot of people were veryinterested.
So finally everyone out therecan now try it.
So I wrote, I showed a, I wrotea blog video and did a video, a
blog video, blog and video onhow to configure your power
(06:33):
platform preview environment,how to get the plan designer
going.
I walked through a whole.
I built an event managementsystem kind of in the plan
showed you what works, whatdoesn't work.
So again, like I said,shameless self-promotion, but
check out that video and tryPlan Designer and let us know
what you think.
Definitely there's some gapsthere, which I hopefully will
soon get addressed in a fewthings, but overall it's pretty
(06:56):
neat, it's pretty exciting andthis to me is getting AI to do
some of that tedious stuff foryou.
And also, I could see sittingwith a customer going through
Plan Designer and building aproof of concept and your
clients or your end users canimmediately see very quickly
what this app could look likeand you could just continue to
work with that or just even usethat as a proof of concept to
(07:17):
build your real app.
So check out Plan Designer,like it's, you know, should be
rolling out to most of theregions by now.
Hopefully it only worked in theU S for me when I tried it, but
yeah, pretty exciting.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Well done and from just for playing with it and
being out there, being early andand getting the message out to
people.
So, yeah, definitely somethingto check out.
Other things to check out, um,from the co-pilot and ai world
(07:55):
would be how to not use co-pilot, for instance.
Um, there's a blog post byfemke cornellisen.
Cornellisen, yeah, uh she's fromthe netherlands yeah, from the
netherlands, from theNetherlands, yes, and this is
also one of those LinkedIn postslong LinkedIn posts that is
really valuable, where she drawsout how to avoid copy-pasting,
(08:16):
how to make sure that you editthe things that you put out,
that is created by co-pilots andhow to have a smart
conversation with a bot, andyeah, so very smart.
And then there's links to someblog posts that she's written as
(08:38):
well.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
So it's a lot of different links to her content,
whatever.
So I found it was really good Alot of stuff here.
It's great because we're alltrying to figure now I think
we're moving from the co-pilot,the generative AI stuff into the
agentic stuff and so now tryingto figure out actual use cases.
And I know a lot of us I knowmyself included are going down
(09:04):
rabbit holes realizing, okay,like we talked about last time,
okay, maybe just regular powerautomates a better solution for
this than trying to do the AIstuff.
So this is really helpful aboutsome of the stuff where Copilot
is where not to use Copilot.
So check out that link out,check out all her articles.
Her stuff is really amazing.
She's really generating a tonof content on Copilot and AI and
(09:28):
definitely a great resource tofollow.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, 100%.
She keeps popping up in my feedas well, and I love those posts
like that when you kind ofsummarize so that you have that
as a base to kind of dig deeper.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
He's the guy in charge of the within Microsoft
of the power platform, and hewas listed as one of the experts
in fast company.
Fast company is a magazine thatI used to love to read, the the
(10:05):
paper version of this.
Of course, it's all online now,and him, with 25 other experts,
predict the how AI will changebusiness and life in 2025.
So, of course, it wasinteresting, he was like the
first one listed and of course,he's talking about in 2025.
So, of course, it wasinteresting.
He was like the first onelisted and of course, he's
talking about agents and thosetypes of things the things we
talk about.
But you go through with all theother 24 people and again the
(10:26):
theme of agents and moving fromjust the generative AI to the
agentic AI transition, but alsoa couple very much red flags in
terms of AI is going to get tothe point where it's going to
generate video that'sindistinguishable from real life
video, and then how potentialscammers and the bad people of
(10:47):
the internet are going to beusing AI in terms of phishing
emails and things like that.
So we all get those emails thatit's from our bank or even from
our cable providers or whatever.
They look so real, and thenthere's the other ones where
they purposely don't look realbecause they're trying to fool
the people.
But now if they can kind offool us.
(11:07):
So again, everybody I mean I'vesaid this a thousand times Be
careful what you click on.
Don't trust anybody.
I know I've gotten emails orcalls from the insurance company
and I called up the insurancecompany.
I said I got a call from theinsurance company about
something.
This is a couple of years agoand I said you know what?
No offense, I'm going to hangup and I'm going to call you
(11:28):
back on your 1-800 number.
And the guy was like yep, noproblem at all, I understand.
And I went, looked up the and Icalled back and sure enough, it
was legit.
But again, these are the typesof things we have to do now.
Same with you know, get a callfrom your bank or things like
that.
So AI is just going to takethis to the next level.
So we have to be super diligent.
But I mean a lot of it wasn'tall negative.
(11:50):
There's a lot of positive stuffcoming out of here.
There was some peoplepredicting that things would be
much more voice activated.
I don't quite agree with that.
I think what you said last weekreally stuck with me about
people love the buttons, theylove the tactile things.
I think that's something thatwon't completely go away as much
as and that just you know fromtheir reality.
Yes, they might be using a lotof voice stuff, but reality, a
(12:11):
lot of people still keyboards.
We're going to be usingkeyboards well into the 2030s I,
I predict we and we can revisitthat when we do a podcast
episode in 2030 in our holosuitesomewhere and there'll be a
keyboard there yeah, exactly,we'll revisit this one.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
No, I, I totally agree with you and I don't think
, um, as much as they're leadingthe way, and that's an
important perspective to have aswell.
You know they're leading thefact, they're leading the way,
they, and that's an importantperspective to have as well.
You know they're leading theway, they're showing the
direction that we're going in.
And still, I know that a lot ofour customers are still on-prem
right.
So it's yeah, and of course,actually that's another segue,
(12:51):
because AI on-prem is a big deal.
Ai on-prem is a big deal.
More and more people go off thegrid and go back to having
their servers on-premise andenable AI there.
For security reasons, forprivacy reasons, they don't want
to send all their informationoff to these big companies, so
(13:12):
they create their own.
It's an interesting twist, Imust say, and especially when
you hear that it's because ofcost reductions and stuff like
that.
It's more cheap to have yourdata stored in your local
storage and have your local AIrun on it and then to have it in
the cloud, etc.
But I also know that it's morebalanced that maybe Charles want
(13:36):
to let in on.
So, yeah, let's put a pin on itand just to see how it will
turn out.
I don't think we'll be out of ajob and I don't think that I
don't know.
I love running mind experimentson this as well.
(13:59):
If none of what you can seeanywhere with your eyes you can
trust, what does that do tohumans?
So I tried to tell I saw mygrandmother yesterday and I told
we talked about a commercial ora video that she'd seen and I
said you know, that's not real.
She's just like, yeah, what doyou mean?
It's not real.
It's like you cannot trust asingle thing that you see with
your eyes on any digital devicefrom now on until the day you
die, because half of it is notreal.
(14:21):
And she struggled with it,right.
And she's not up to kind ofresource checking et cetera,
right?
So if you don't have theresources or the time to check
the source of what you'rewatching, then you kind of have
to assume that it's fake.
Or the time to check the sourceof what you're watching, then
you kind of have to assume thatit's fake.
And what does that do to us asconsumers of visual
(14:43):
entertainment and stimuli allthe time, when you can't trust
anything?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Well, think of elections.
I mean, that is going to be thebiggest thing.
We're going to be having anelection in Canada this year.
There was just one in the USAll of this information
generated.
Now I did hear someone talk toI forget where I heard this but
about potentially using ablockchain to come somehow sign,
you know, news reports orsomething, so you do have a some
(15:10):
sort of trust advisory there.
I'm not sure how that wouldwork, but, but again, this is
the new reality and this is thescary part of AI how it can
affect things.
All it takes is someone to puta video together of a prominent
politician doing some things andit's sort of like, well, yeah,
(15:33):
you put the parameters around it.
It could really affect theoutcome of things, like
elections or whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
So, yeah, so maybe no , but so maybe politics will go
back to being just aboutpolitics then, because if you
can't trust anything, you can'ttrust the smudging videos that
someone puts out there, thengoes both ways and suddenly it's
all about the politics againand not about the personal
vendettas.
So maybe it's a good thing, um,if we source check a little bit
(16:00):
more, and it makes us morediligent when we look up things
online.
So, um, but yeah, it's, uh,let's get back to the light and
easy news and updates from thepower platform, the world of
power platform.
Um, let's start at the top ofthe list, because now we've kind
of started at the bottom, goingdown, and start with Nathan
(16:23):
Rose.
You put three Hold on.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Before we do that, let's the first item there about
congratulations to the PowerPlatform Weekly.
Absolutely, let's be superpositive.
Four years I can't believe itthat they've been out.
So that's the newsletter, whereyou know it comes in every
Monday morning.
I think they took a break overthe holiday, like we didn't take
(16:46):
a break, but that's okay.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
No, they didn't, because they put out their the
special edition right.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
So that was.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Christmas.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, we were one of the special edition items um
about the podcast, so editionitems.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yeah, karina was so sweet and she reached out to us
with an interview and we uh youanswered the questions very well
about how we got started andwhy we're doing this and if we
had any tips and tricks forother podcasters out there to
keep the consistency, keep itgoing, and it just and you know,
kind of kind of made me think,oh, so we're one of the podcasts
(17:23):
that kept it going.
Now are we already there?
Because I still feel like wehave to prove that we're going
to keep it going.
Kind of new to the thing andsuddenly, oh, maybe we're
becoming a bit more seasoned andI like that.
So it's good, it's very nice.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
But congrats, I know this newsletter spun from the
newsletter Guido used to dobefore that, which ran for many
years, and they've completelygrabbed the torch and ran with
it.
And selfishly I do say, if Iposted something, I do look on
the Monday morning.
Did my article make it?
(18:02):
Yes, right, so yeah, absolutelyso.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
kudos to you.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Karina Daniel.
Oh, shoot, Now I'm forgettingthe names.
Magnus, and now I'm drawing ablank We'll list who I know, who
.
I see your face from the US.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Ed Gonzalez.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Karina Daniel.
Ed and Magnus.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, but anyways, congratulations, folks, keep it
going, you have our full support.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yep, definitely Very, very good, and we use it as a
base for this podcast a lot aswell.
So it's good to have that as abaseline.
And then we can move on toNathan Rose, our favorite rant
roaster of everything.
Truth on LinkedIn.
Absolutely love it bit.
(18:54):
You've put three posts in herethat he's put out lately, so
this seems to me like he'sreally starting to be consistent
.
And then push out content aboutPower Effects.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah, yeah, he's like Power Effects is his jam,
amongst other things.
But yeah, he has a whole seriesthere.
One's really interesting, likeyou know, about using Power
Effects, kind of comparing it toExcel, about the fact that
power effects is designed for aior ai, you know, ties into this
.
Again, not getting down the airabbit hole.
(19:26):
Uh, we just climbed out of oneum, but then also we talked
about uh one, about likerelationships as well with uh,
with um power effects as well,and that kind of was very
interesting.
So, uh, he does these posts.
You see a lot of linkedin andthat kind of was very
interesting.
So he does these posts.
You see a lot of LinkedIn whereit's kind of a series of like
you know, like 10 to 15 slideskind of thing.
I really like that formatbecause it's like it's not quite
(19:49):
a full blog.
You have to read through it's,give me the highlights, give me
the points, kind of scan through, check out those links.
We have three of them listedhere, but Nathan is one to
follow, especially if you'reinto Power Facts or learning
Power Facts.
Nathan's based out of NewZealand.
I believe he's from the USoriginally.
I know he was talking about hisvacation in the US as well,
(20:15):
hopefully.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I'm looking forward to meeting you, Nathan,
face-to-face sometime, hopefullythis year.
Yeah, me too.
It's perfect.
I'm sorry if you hear any noisein the background.
It's just my kids making foodafter school, no problem.
Yeah, it's a blizzard heretoday.
It's been snowing constantlyand it's going to keep going for
another two days.
So right after this, it's snowplowing time.
Whoop, whoop, that's the whoopwhoop who.
(20:36):
So right after this, it's snowplowing time.
Whoop, whoop, that's the whoopwhoop, whoop, whoop.
All right.
Another neat little thing thatwe saw this week was from Matt
Cullen-Jones about hydrating devenvironments.
So is using Power Automate.
Now this is funny because Ithink actually we spilled the
beans on this on the last oreven the episode before that
when you go and you import asolution and it shows you how
(20:57):
you can now grab it from a fileor grab it from a pipeline that
you've already run a managed orunmanned solution but it flashes
and then it disappears.
That was kind of what we said,and then we didn't break any in
the air or anything, but itwasn't fully baked.
Now it's fully baked and outthere.
So he's showing.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I'd say Matt has finished.
He's given us the whole pictureand the whole story.
Thank you, Matt, for doing that.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Yeah, definitely.
So he finished what we didn'tstart, or what we started a
couple of episodes ago.
So this is about how you usethat new feature or, yeah,
that's a feature Basically whenyou set up a new environment, a
new dev environment.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
You try to import the solutions.
We can now actually pick themfrom our pipeline if they've
already been deployed throughpipelines.
Of course, the unmanagedsolutions are kept there as well
, so you're able to import thosesolutions that have already
been part of the pipeline.
Now, if this environment you'vealready set it up as a target
environment, apparently it willstop that, which makes sense.
So, yeah, it's a great way to,as opposed to trying to find
(22:06):
your solutions or even withinyour building a DevOps procedure
, to kind of create your devenvironments, which I know
people have done, and that'snothing wrong with that.
But this is very low code,quick and dirty way Boom do,
environment, environment, oh, Ineed these three solutions.
Boom, boom, boom, done,imported away.
You go, start developing.
(22:26):
And it'd be interesting to seehow this ties into um with that,
which is another feature that'sstill kind of coming out
rolling out.
That's a little half-baked.
Is the github integration, umor the Git integration with
solutions?
I've tried it.
I've run into a few roadblocks.
I reached out to our friendYannick Riekmans, who's done a
lot with it, and I said, yannick, am I missing something?
(22:46):
And he kind of responded backgoing no, no, no, no.
It doesn't do what you want itto do in that respect yet.
So okay, anyways, keep an eyeout.
We'll talk about that this year.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
For sure, guaranteed, oh yeah, yeah, it's one of the
big ones, the.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
ALM story just keeps rolling.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Oh yeah, and also maybe people are a bit confused
about pipelines because you canonly deploy managed solutions
through pipelines.
But every time you usepipelines it always grabs both
unmanaged and managed solutionsand you can only deploy the
managed ones but now on the backend of it you can actually
import the unmanaged one.
So it's getting more advancedand it's kind of reaching out as
a little nugget, here and therea new functionality, and that's
(23:32):
not the last we've seen of thepipeline story.
It's just getting better andwe've hit our head against the
wall that wall a bit this year.
But we're seeing where it'sgoing and it's a very good thing
to watch, good space to watchand then, yeah, I was just going
(23:55):
to talk about we're going intothe Power Pages section Our
friend Michel Mendez.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Michel he, I think we call him.
We said Michael before, but Ibelieve it's Michel and please
correct us.
I met him in Ireland at theIrish Power Platform Summit we
had.
It was really cool to meet him.
He's a great guy, veryenthusiastic, but at any rate,
he has this really cool blogpost about using the PDF
(24:26):
JavaScript library in PowerPages.
This is something that comes upa lot.
People want to see a PDFrendered in a Power Pages site,
so he's shown a way how to dothat.
That's pretty exciting.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Very much.
It's actually a requirementthat I have coming up.
So when I saw this, I was superexcited.
I don't have to search to findout how to do this.
I can simply just copy the codeand he has all the code in
there.
So no excuse to not check itout and just go grab.
To be fair, you could do thiswith PowerPages as well.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
But Matthew Devaney from good old Winnipeg here in
Canada.
He has a Power Automate flow tohost a web page web application
technique that I know I youknow again, this isn't about me,
but I posted something aboutfive years ago which I based it
(25:29):
off of another MVP in Australiathat did something similar as
well and it's kind of followinga process called JAMstack, which
is JAMstack is JavaScriptapplicator, app management or
something like that's an acronymthere.
The idea is you create a statichtml file with power automate,
(25:50):
you throw that up on a web pageand then, of course, with that
you can fill in whatever detailsor update information that
calls through an http requestalso calls power automate, which
will write it back, whether toto Dataverse or SharePoint list
or whatever.
So again, this is why I lovethis kind of content, because it
shows a solution of, I think, avery elegant solution that's
(26:13):
not overly complicated, thatcould address a lot of web page
requirements in terms ofdisplaying data on a static
website.
You don't necessarily need tohave it talking to Dataverse
back and forth in something likePowerPages.
Sometimes you definitely do,that makes sense, but other
times you just need to displaysome information.
So this was pretty cool to seethat from Matthew Deviney.
(26:35):
It also reminded me of ourfriend Matt Snecker did a
presentation very similar atDirections in November and how
they build their event websitefor ColorCloud, for example,
using similar techniques to this.
Of course it's a little bitmore advanced because they have
a lot of more features, but italways goes to the thing right
tool for the right job andsometimes it's good to think out
(26:58):
of the box and sometimes thosetools like Power Automate can
really go above and beyondreally what you think they can
do.
So check out Matthew's his linkand, of course, subscribe to
his newsletter.
He's really super consistent ondeveloping blog articles and
he's very structured.
He has a table of contents.
You could tell he spends a lotof time, a lot of effort to make
(27:18):
his content consistent and veryreadable.
So thanks, Matthew for that.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, 100% is always solid and some of the times it
seems that it's scratching thesurface, but that's just to grab
your attention and then it justdives right in and gives you
all the little details that youneed to make it work.
So, yeah, absolutely good work.
And speaking of websites, justkeeping on the theme here, we
(27:43):
saw something this week from ourgood friend Megan Walker as
well, about how finally we cando website tracking in real time
marketing.
It's been lacking and now it'sfinally here.
She goes through what it isabout, why you need it and how
you can make it work and alsohow to enable the feature.
(28:04):
It's still in preview, uh, itwill give you a little snippet
that you can add to your site oryour pages and it'll give you
statistics, uh, about intelemetry, on website visits and
and also website link clicks,so you can set that up to track
your visitors and also then, ofcourse, use that to trigger um
(28:26):
orchestration and and otherthings in your marketing app to
make sure that you reach theright people.
It's so marketing these days.
You used to be about, you know,splashing your marketing um all
around the place, but now it'svery much about the, the bespoke
, uh, communication and thebespoke kind of message that you
(28:47):
want to get across, and youwant to get it across as pointy
as you possibly can.
So this is very good and animportant enhancement to the
marketing business application,for sure.
Yeah, well done, yep.
And then, last but not least,we have your mentee.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Well, yeah, Now I hope I remember how the
pronunciation of your name goesHudin Rashid, and if I got this
wrong, please correct us.
You know we have to screw upsomeone's name every episode.
I think, or don't have to.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I don't think we've failed one yet.
So yeah, definitely have to dothat.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I'm sorry, but on the flip side, he has a real, of
course, new year right.
What are things that are onpeople's you know goal list for
2025?
Oh, I need to get mycertifications or I need to make
sure I renew my certifications.
I renewed my pl 400 a few weeksago with, I think, three or
four days to spare before itexpires.
(29:44):
Yeah, I did it while I waschanging tires, actually, but
waiting in line, but that's awhole other story.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I had my laptop up and everything.
We won't say how many attemptsI did when while the dude was
changing your tires.
That's not while you werechanging the tires, just so that
people get confused that he hasa laptop in one hand and
changing tires or the other no,sitting in his car while the
dude changed the tires.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Okay, yes, yes, exactly so.
Anyways, he has done.
Uh, this is something that.
So, of course, your newcertifications are looking into
the certifications.
The it's given a good roadmapof the order, because that's
always a very common questionlike, okay, which one should I
do first, which one should Ifocus on?
Um, and it goes even above andbeyond just the power platform
(30:34):
one, so it's also incorporatingthe applied skills as well.
I love the applied skills.
Applied skills you go in, youtry it out for yourself, you
click on the buttons, you buildthe little app or you configure
the app or you make the changes,and then you submit that and
within minutes it comes backtelling you you passed or failed
um.
(30:54):
So he kind of goes through likepl 900 great place to start the
applied skills, you know,because pl 100 did get, I think,
removed or deprecated.
So that's why the appliedskills are there, going through
the PL 200, 500, 400, some ofthe more applied skills, all the
way up, including stuff likeAzure Fundamentals, which really
makes sense.
(31:14):
That's a certification I've notgotten, but we do in our
day-to-day, we do work andintegrate with Azure.
So it is definitely you know.
Yeah, yeah, I should probablyget that certification as well,
so it's a great way to you knowif you're upping your skills.
Of course, at the end of theday, experience is where you
really need to hone your skills,become your craftsman, but
(31:38):
these certifications do give youan exposure to all the
different things, allows you tohave okay, I didn't know about
this feature, I have to learnabout it to pass an exam, and
then the next time you're in aposition where you're
architecting a solution, you'relike oh yeah, this feature
really applies to thisparticular use case.
So that's why I thinkcertification is important.
So we're going to put the linkin it's to a LinkedIn post, but
(31:59):
it's a check out thatcertification roadmap if this is
part of your 2025 goals anddreams.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Oh yeah, and it absolutely should be.
So very, very good resource.
Last but not least, let's justrun quickly to the events that
are up and coming.
First one on the list for me isArctic Cloud Developer
Challenge three-day hackathon inOslo from the 23rd of January.
It's sold out.
That's fantastic.
(32:25):
15 teams, yeah, well over 50attendees, six judges across the
board.
It's going to be an amazingevent, for sure.
And then you have Talin comingup, Yep.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
So I'll be at Talin and I have a session on the
Developer's Guide to Power Pages.
Potentially could have gotroped into other stuff because
they were, you know, making surethere are backup sessions and,
of course, this is such awell-organized event in terms of
the communication, in terms ofthe sessions and, like you know,
I'm looking at the WhatsAppgroup and even in terms of the
(33:01):
rolling out what's going's.
I know Vivian, our friendVivian Voss, is involved in.
Yeah, great job.
I'm really looking forward tothis, looking forward to
attending this event First time.
I'll be in Estonia as well, soit's another country off the
checklist and yeah, so if you'resay hi, if you're going to be
there, we'd be happy to meet you.
(33:27):
Yeah, and maybe get a sticker,and then you have a Canadian
Power Platform Summit coming upthe weekend before MVP.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Summit.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yeah, the weekend before MVP Summit.
This is in Vancouver, sotickets are now on sale.
There's the, and then workshops, workshops it's a steal.
There's been some internaldebate on the pricing of
workshops.
Right now, $249 Canadian is theearly bird price.
(33:53):
The way the exchange rate isnow, it is dirt cheap.
And there are some amazingworkshops.
There's Lisa Crosby and DionTaylor yeah, doing a co-pilot
studio Like the two top peoplein the world.
You get access to them for afull day for $249 Canadian.
(34:16):
That's crazy.
Like that's worth any kind ofairfare hotel like that you
might have to spend to get there.
To get that.
There's also, I think, um mattsnecker and uh carl cookson.
I believe they're doing one, analm one, and uh joe griffin
(34:38):
maybe griffin, um, is doing oneon and um, sebastian, thank you,
are doing one on.
I believe, power effects aswell.
Um, nice, so check out thoseagain.
Uh, early birds till january30th um, so cash in on that now.
(34:58):
Um, the there are tickets forthe general session as well.
It's 25 canadian and again,we're not.
It is not to make money.
It is not to make money.
It is really just for you tohave a little bit of a skin in
the game that you'll show up,because we do have limited
capacity.
We want to make sure we usethat capacity and then also make
sure that the food we orderdoesn't nothing goes to waste.
That's really one of ourbiggest goals there.
(35:20):
So, definitely, if you'recoming, going to be in Vancouver
, you know, you know, yesno-transcript, then get your
(35:55):
ticket sooner rather than later,because these things sell out,
especially at that price.
Yeah, and the workshops includea free pass to the general
session.
So that's another way,Absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
And then I have a ColorCloud in April to the
general session.
So that's another way,absolutely yeah.
And then I have a color cloudin April with well, I'm actually
doing multiple things.
I'm doing a workshop PowerPages from Creation to Go Live.
It's my first kind of bigworkshop that I'm doing on my
own and of course, it had to bePower Pages.
We're going to take you throughall the steps that you need in
(36:25):
order to get your brandingfoundation, in order to set your
security right, to go throughthe checklist, to get into
production, how to do ALM, topush through to test and
production.
We're going to set up someforms and lists and use
out-of-the-box components asmuch as possible and, of course,
also dive into the differentuser interfaces that you need to
(36:47):
know how to navigate to usePowerPages properly.
So if you're getting startedwith PowerPages and doing a
project, then this is theworkshop for you.
Also, I wanted to shout out tomy mentee, elvira Shrikic Names.
I need to get that right.
Sorry, elvira, that's horrible,I'll practice.
(37:09):
She's doing her first sessionthere on Power Pages and Coal
Pallet as well, and I'm doing asession with Andrew Wingate on
BC and Power Pages.
So Coal Accra is going to bebusy for me and also, this thing
is going to sell out as well.
It's going to be a bit biggerthan last year, but just get
(37:31):
your ticket right away.
And then you have a lot ofother things as well, a lot of
small things this spring.
Do you want to talk about oneof them, or do you want to save
that for later?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
The one in Dynamics Minds.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Yeah, so I am doing a session on Dynamics Minds.
It is a different session I'venever done before.
To be honest, I'm quite a bitnervous about it and I'm trying
to formulate in my head how I'mgoing to structure that all
together.
But it's really effectively.
It's about another passion ofmine powerlifting, but also ties
into mental health and withinour profession, within our
(38:11):
information technologyprofession.
So it's a pretty personal story.
Like I said, I'm pretty nervousabout it.
So we'll see how this evolves.
I have some ideas how I'm goingto frame that, but we'll see
how that kind of forms out.
So Dynamics Mines believe it ornot, I know they have selected
a whole bunch of sessions, butthey're still accepting session
(38:33):
submissions till January 15th,so you'll still have a few days.
If you're considering it, makesure you get that in as well.
Now we also have sessionsubmissions to a whole bunch of
other events which we've not gotconfirmation on.
So this list might expand quitea bit.
Probably will.
(38:53):
Yeah, so we're sort of seeingwhat the status is before we
make any kind of announcementsthere, because we don't know for
sure and a lot of it.
A session submission for meactually determines whether I'm
going to actually be able to goor justify the going or not.
So we'll see how that evolves.
And we got through quite a bit.
(39:13):
We've stayed close to ourregular time-ish and our next
episode I say here, next episodeJanuary 8th, but that's not
right.
This is this episode 22nd ofJanuary.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
This is this episode, 22nd, 22nd 22nd of January.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Wow, I know, and that will be our 50th episode.
Can you believe it?
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Yeah, I know, isn't it cool?
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Yeah, we need to, maybe we'll.
I know we say now we'll dosomething special, but that's
already in January.
We're busy.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
No, you don't believe in it.
We're shit-tum people.
Come on, we can do this.
Probably we'll dress up ormaybe we'll have a song or a
dance.
You just have to tune in to seewhat we come up with.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
We're open to suggestions as well.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
No, we're not, of course we are.
Okay, it was good chatting withyou and I love to keep up to
date on the Power Platform stuff, of course, and I'll catch you
in a couple of weeks, yeah forsure.
All right, perfect, bye,everybody.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
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(40:42):
news and updates.
And we're sharing this because we understand that
our listeners are probablyfeeling the exact same thing.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm sure a lot of you are out there going, oh, over
the break, I'm going to do this,I'm going to do that, and then
things may have not happened andyou comment and you write to us
the thing that you weresupposed to do over the holidays
that didn't get done, so thatwe can all share in the common
(00:31):
and then we can embrace eachother with love and generosity.
We're only human and we need abreak every now and again, and
it's okay.
Hello everyone and welcome tothe Power Platform Boost podcast
(01:02):
, your timely source of PowerPlatform news and updates, with
your hosts Nick Dolman andUlrike Ackerbeck.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Hello and Happy New Year.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Happy New Year.
How are you?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, I'm doing okay.
I think I'm fighting off alittle bit of a cold kind of of
thing, so I'll try not to coughtoo much in the microphone
during this recording.
Oh, but no, it's all good.
I had some.
I took some some good drugslast night and had a really good
sleep, so I'll be fine.
I'm not one of these man fluguys that every little thing
(01:38):
kind of takes me down.
I'm kind of like no, no, let'sjust power through it, we're
fine, I know.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, we're fine, yeah.
And plural yeah, we're fine,yeah, yeah, how?
are you, I'm good.
I had a very relaxing Christmasholiday with the kids, went to
the Canary Islands, where my dadis, and have an apartment there
, so it was all good, juststayed by the pool, did some
(02:04):
reading, did not do any workthat I was supposed to do, so
those things were right.
On Friday afternoon I tookFriday off as well, because we
got back the night of Friday,friday morning, but I opened my
laptop to kind of get a bit of asoft start.
You know, just go through theinbox and just warm up and
(02:25):
that's when it hit me.
The to-do list is like oh shoot, I promised to do this and this
and this and that the wholeweekend I've been.
It's been crappy weather, youknow, fortunately for me,
because then if it's goodweather I need to be outside,
but it was crappy weather allweekend through.
So I've been by my computerjust doing all the things I said
(02:47):
I was supposed to do over theChristmas holidays.
So you know, and that goes forthe PCF controls.
Oh, I'm sorry, no, no, no, I'mthe same.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Like it's a case of, oh, we think we have all the
time in the world and we unplug.
And then it's like, oh, I'mgoing to do this, this and this,
and then you know reality hitsin and of course then your mind,
your whole mind, changes right,you want to get into the family
stuff.
You want to.
You know eating all this foodand you know watching the
christmas movies and doing allthose things and um for for
myself and my family.
We drove out to gasby z, whichis, you know, the far side of of
(03:21):
quebec, so you know that's along drive and doing stuff there
.
You know the far side of Quebec, so you know that's a long
drive and doing stuff there.
So you know all these things.
Like, yeah, the PCF control.
I looked at it on the weekendand like, oh, yeah, we were
going to do that, so we're stillgoing to do it.
Just, we haven't done anythingyet.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Because I now have some ideas.
Yeah, me too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, and I putpressure on myself, like I said
last time, from multiple anglesnow.
So I'm going to deliver this asa POC my idea to a customer, so
I have to get it done.
It's not like, but I can dowith a few more weeks to get it
up and running, so that's goingto be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Right, and we're sharing this because we
understand that our listenersare probably feeling the exact
same thing.
I'm sure a lot of you are outthere going, oh, over the break,
I'm going to do this, I'm goingto do that, and then things may
have not happened.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And actually what we would love for you to do is you
put a comment whatever you seethe post for this episode and
you comment and you write to usthe thing that you were supposed
to do over the holidays thatdidn't get done, so that we can
all share in the common, youknow, and then we can embrace
each other with love andgenerosity, as if we're only
(04:31):
human and we need a break everynow and again.
And you say that as if youdidn't do anything, but actually
you have produced quite a bitover the holidays.
You produce videos and blogposts and stuff.
So actually you're not one ofthe slacker ones, you're the
ones that get shit done.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Well, yeah, maybe, but it was also a case of
something and I guess we'll diveright into it because, yeah,
people did get stuff done.
And let's talk about the stuffpeople did do.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, let's do it Over the brain Segway.
So this is.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I'll done and let's talk about the stuff people did.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah let's do it.
The brain segue so this is.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I'll take this as like shame, shameless
self-promotion.
Um, over the now we've allheard about uh.
At las vegas, at the powerplatform community conference
where you were there, theyannounced this thing called plan
designer, which allows you youto put in you know some, some
parameters of.
This.
Is the type of app I want tobuild and here's what I want it
(05:28):
to do.
And then going through andgenerating the plan, user
personas, generating the apps,the data model, the whole thing.
So basically, you really cutdown on that planning time and
I've always been a proponent ofdon't just start building an app
from fingers, figures onkeyboards.
Draw it out on a whiteboard, doit in a mural board, do it fold
it like, do a design, get yourrequirements, get your user
(05:49):
stories.
This feature really helps thatand I was able to be part of the
private preview program.
I got to go in early innovember and play around with
this, try it out, see what itworks, see what didn't work,
provide some feedback.
In Ignite, ryan and Ryan, ryanCunningham and Clay Wesner
(06:10):
presented the plan designer, sothe public finally got to see
what was happening with it.
And then, when I was in theMicrosoft booth, this was
something primarily, we showedoff a lot.
A lot of people were veryinterested.
So finally everyone out therecan now try it.
So I wrote, I showed a, I wrotea blog video and did a video, a
blog video, blog and video onhow to configure your power
(06:33):
platform preview environment,how to get the plan designer
going.
I walked through a whole.
I built an event managementsystem kind of in the plan
showed you what works, whatdoesn't work.
So again, like I said,shameless self-promotion, but
check out that video and tryPlan Designer and let us know
what you think.
Definitely there's some gapsthere, which I hopefully will
soon get addressed in a fewthings, but overall it's pretty
(06:56):
neat, it's pretty exciting andthis to me is getting AI to do
some of that tedious stuff foryou.
And also, I could see sittingwith a customer going through
Plan Designer and building aproof of concept and your
clients or your end users canimmediately see very quickly
what this app could look likeand you could just continue to
work with that or just even usethat as a proof of concept to
(07:17):
build your real app.
So check out Plan Designer,like it's, you know, should be
rolling out to most of theregions by now.
Hopefully it only worked in theU S for me when I tried it, but
yeah, pretty exciting.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Well done and from just for playing with it and
being out there, being early andand getting the message out to
people.
So, yeah, definitely somethingto check out.
Other things to check out, um,from the co-pilot and ai world
(07:55):
would be how to not use co-pilot, for instance.
Um, there's a blog post byfemke cornellisen.
Cornellisen, yeah, uh she's fromthe netherlands yeah, from the
netherlands, from theNetherlands, yes, and this is
also one of those LinkedIn postslong LinkedIn posts that is
really valuable, where she drawsout how to avoid copy-pasting,
(08:16):
how to make sure that you editthe things that you put out,
that is created by co-pilots andhow to have a smart
conversation with a bot, andyeah, so very smart.
And then there's links to someblog posts that she's written as
(08:38):
well.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
So it's a lot of different links to her content,
whatever.
So I found it was really good Alot of stuff here.
It's great because we're alltrying to figure now I think
we're moving from the co-pilot,the generative AI stuff into the
agentic stuff and so now tryingto figure out actual use cases.
And I know a lot of us I knowmyself included are going down
(09:04):
rabbit holes realizing, okay,like we talked about last time,
okay, maybe just regular powerautomates a better solution for
this than trying to do the AIstuff.
So this is really helpful aboutsome of the stuff where Copilot
is where not to use Copilot.
So check out that link out,check out all her articles.
Her stuff is really amazing.
She's really generating a tonof content on Copilot and AI and
(09:28):
definitely a great resource tofollow.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, 100%.
She keeps popping up in my feedas well, and I love those posts
like that when you kind ofsummarize so that you have that
as a base to kind of dig deeper.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
He's the guy in charge of the within Microsoft
of the power platform, and hewas listed as one of the experts
in fast company.
Fast company is a magazine thatI used to love to read, the the
(10:05):
paper version of this.
Of course, it's all online now,and him, with 25 other experts,
predict the how AI will changebusiness and life in 2025.
So, of course, it wasinteresting, he was like the
first one listed and of course,he's talking about in 2025.
So, of course, it wasinteresting.
He was like the first onelisted and of course, he's
talking about agents and thosetypes of things the things we
talk about.
But you go through with all theother 24 people and again the
(10:26):
theme of agents and moving fromjust the generative AI to the
agentic AI transition, but alsoa couple very much red flags in
terms of AI is going to get tothe point where it's going to
generate video that'sindistinguishable from real life
video, and then how potentialscammers and the bad people of
(10:47):
the internet are going to beusing AI in terms of phishing
emails and things like that.
So we all get those emails thatit's from our bank or even from
our cable providers or whatever.
They look so real, and thenthere's the other ones where
they purposely don't look realbecause they're trying to fool
the people.
But now if they can kind offool us.
(11:07):
So again, everybody I mean I'vesaid this a thousand times Be
careful what you click on.
Don't trust anybody.
I know I've gotten emails orcalls from the insurance company
and I called up the insurancecompany.
I said I got a call from theinsurance company about
something.
This is a couple of years agoand I said you know what?
No offense, I'm going to hangup and I'm going to call you
(11:28):
back on your 1-800 number.
And the guy was like yep, noproblem at all, I understand.
And I went, looked up the and Icalled back and sure enough, it
was legit.
But again, these are the typesof things we have to do now.
Same with you know, get a callfrom your bank or things like
that.
So AI is just going to takethis to the next level.
So we have to be super diligent.
But I mean a lot of it wasn'tall negative.
(11:50):
There's a lot of positive stuffcoming out of here.
There was some peoplepredicting that things would be
much more voice activated.
I don't quite agree with that.
I think what you said last weekreally stuck with me about
people love the buttons, theylove the tactile things.
I think that's something thatwon't completely go away as much
as and that just you know fromtheir reality.
Yes, they might be using a lotof voice stuff, but reality, a
(12:11):
lot of people still keyboards.
We're going to be usingkeyboards well into the 2030s I,
I predict we and we can revisitthat when we do a podcast
episode in 2030 in our holosuitesomewhere and there'll be a
keyboard there yeah, exactly,we'll revisit this one.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
No, I, I totally agree with you and I don't think
, um, as much as they're leadingthe way, and that's an
important perspective to have aswell.
You know they're leading thefact, they're leading the way,
they, and that's an importantperspective to have as well.
You know they're leading theway, they're showing the
direction that we're going in.
And still, I know that a lot ofour customers are still on-prem
right.
So it's yeah, and of course,actually that's another segue,
(12:51):
because AI on-prem is a big deal.
Ai on-prem is a big deal.
More and more people go off thegrid and go back to having
their servers on-premise andenable AI there.
For security reasons, forprivacy reasons, they don't want
to send all their informationoff to these big companies, so
(13:12):
they create their own.
It's an interesting twist, Imust say, and especially when
you hear that it's because ofcost reductions and stuff like
that.
It's more cheap to have yourdata stored in your local
storage and have your local AIrun on it and then to have it in
the cloud, etc.
But I also know that it's morebalanced that maybe Charles want
(13:36):
to let in on.
So, yeah, let's put a pin on itand just to see how it will
turn out.
I don't think we'll be out of ajob and I don't think that I
don't know.
I love running mind experimentson this as well.
(13:59):
If none of what you can seeanywhere with your eyes you can
trust, what does that do tohumans?
So I tried to tell I saw mygrandmother yesterday and I told
we talked about a commercial ora video that she'd seen and I
said you know, that's not real.
She's just like, yeah, what doyou mean?
It's not real.
It's like you cannot trust asingle thing that you see with
your eyes on any digital devicefrom now on until the day you
die, because half of it is notreal.
(14:21):
And she struggled with it,right.
And she's not up to kind ofresource checking et cetera,
right?
So if you don't have theresources or the time to check
the source of what you'rewatching, then you kind of have
to assume that it's fake.
Or the time to check the sourceof what you're watching, then
you kind of have to assume thatit's fake.
And what does that do to us asconsumers of visual
(14:43):
entertainment and stimuli allthe time, when you can't trust
anything?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Well, think of elections.
I mean, that is going to be thebiggest thing.
We're going to be having anelection in Canada this year.
There was just one in the USAll of this information
generated.
Now I did hear someone talk toI forget where I heard this but
about potentially using ablockchain to come somehow sign,
you know, news reports orsomething, so you do have a some
(15:10):
sort of trust advisory there.
I'm not sure how that wouldwork, but, but again, this is
the new reality and this is thescary part of AI how it can
affect things.
All it takes is someone to puta video together of a prominent
politician doing some things andit's sort of like, well, yeah,
(15:33):
you put the parameters around it.
It could really affect theoutcome of things, like
elections or whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
So, yeah, so maybe no , but so maybe politics will go
back to being just aboutpolitics then, because if you
can't trust anything, you can'ttrust the smudging videos that
someone puts out there, thengoes both ways and suddenly it's
all about the politics againand not about the personal
vendettas.
So maybe it's a good thing, um,if we source check a little bit
(16:00):
more, and it makes us morediligent when we look up things
online.
So, um, but yeah, it's, uh,let's get back to the light and
easy news and updates from thepower platform, the world of
power platform.
Um, let's start at the top ofthe list, because now we've kind
of started at the bottom, goingdown, and start with Nathan
(16:23):
Rose.
You put three Hold on.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Before we do that, let's the first item there about
congratulations to the PowerPlatform Weekly.
Absolutely, let's be superpositive.
Four years I can't believe itthat they've been out.
So that's the newsletter, whereyou know it comes in every
Monday morning.
I think they took a break overthe holiday, like we didn't take
(16:46):
a break, but that's okay.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
No, they didn't, because they put out their the
special edition right.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
So that was.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Christmas.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, we were one of the special edition items um
about the podcast, so editionitems.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yeah, karina was so sweet and she reached out to us
with an interview and we uh youanswered the questions very well
about how we got started andwhy we're doing this and if we
had any tips and tricks forother podcasters out there to
keep the consistency, keep itgoing, and it just and you know,
kind of kind of made me think,oh, so we're one of the podcasts
(17:23):
that kept it going.
Now are we already there?
Because I still feel like wehave to prove that we're going
to keep it going.
Kind of new to the thing andsuddenly, oh, maybe we're
becoming a bit more seasoned andI like that.
So it's good, it's very nice.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
But congrats, I know this newsletter spun from the
newsletter Guido used to dobefore that, which ran for many
years, and they've completelygrabbed the torch and ran with
it.
And selfishly I do say, if Iposted something, I do look on
the Monday morning.
Did my article make it?
(18:02):
Yes, right, so yeah, absolutelyso.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
kudos to you.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Karina Daniel.
Oh, shoot, Now I'm forgettingthe names.
Magnus, and now I'm drawing ablank We'll list who I know, who
.
I see your face from the US.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Ed Gonzalez.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Karina Daniel.
Ed and Magnus.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, but anyways, congratulations, folks, keep it
going, you have our full support.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yep, definitely Very, very good, and we use it as a
base for this podcast a lot aswell.
So it's good to have that as abaseline.
And then we can move on toNathan Rose, our favorite rant
roaster of everything.
Truth on LinkedIn.
Absolutely love it bit.
(18:54):
You've put three posts in herethat he's put out lately, so
this seems to me like he'sreally starting to be consistent
.
And then push out content aboutPower Effects.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah, yeah, he's like Power Effects is his jam,
amongst other things.
But yeah, he has a whole seriesthere.
One's really interesting, likeyou know, about using Power
Effects, kind of comparing it toExcel, about the fact that
power effects is designed for aior ai, you know, ties into this
.
Again, not getting down the airabbit hole.
(19:26):
Uh, we just climbed out of oneum, but then also we talked
about uh one, about likerelationships as well with uh,
with um power effects as well,and that kind of was very
interesting.
So, uh, he does these posts.
You see a lot of linkedin andthat kind of was very
interesting.
So he does these posts.
You see a lot of LinkedIn whereit's kind of a series of like
you know, like 10 to 15 slideskind of thing.
I really like that formatbecause it's like it's not quite
(19:49):
a full blog.
You have to read through it's,give me the highlights, give me
the points, kind of scan through, check out those links.
We have three of them listedhere, but Nathan is one to
follow, especially if you'reinto Power Facts or learning
Power Facts.
Nathan's based out of NewZealand.
I believe he's from the USoriginally.
I know he was talking about hisvacation in the US as well,
(20:15):
hopefully.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I'm looking forward to meeting you, Nathan,
face-to-face sometime, hopefullythis year.
Yeah, me too.
It's perfect.
I'm sorry if you hear any noisein the background.
It's just my kids making foodafter school, no problem.
Yeah, it's a blizzard heretoday.
It's been snowing constantlyand it's going to keep going for
another two days.
So right after this, it's snowplowing time.
Whoop, whoop, that's the whoopwhoop who.
(20:36):
So right after this, it's snowplowing time.
Whoop, whoop, that's the whoopwhoop, whoop, whoop.
All right.
Another neat little thing thatwe saw this week was from Matt
Cullen-Jones about hydrating devenvironments.
So is using Power Automate.
Now this is funny because Ithink actually we spilled the
beans on this on the last oreven the episode before that
when you go and you import asolution and it shows you how
(20:57):
you can now grab it from a fileor grab it from a pipeline that
you've already run a managed orunmanned solution but it flashes
and then it disappears.
That was kind of what we said,and then we didn't break any in
the air or anything, but itwasn't fully baked.
Now it's fully baked and outthere.
So he's showing.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I'd say Matt has finished.
He's given us the whole pictureand the whole story.
Thank you, Matt, for doing that.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Yeah, definitely.
So he finished what we didn'tstart, or what we started a
couple of episodes ago.
So this is about how you usethat new feature or, yeah,
that's a feature Basically whenyou set up a new environment, a
new dev environment.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
You try to import the solutions.
We can now actually pick themfrom our pipeline if they've
already been deployed throughpipelines.
Of course, the unmanagedsolutions are kept there as well
, so you're able to import thosesolutions that have already
been part of the pipeline.
Now, if this environment you'vealready set it up as a target
environment, apparently it willstop that, which makes sense.
So, yeah, it's a great way to,as opposed to trying to find
(22:06):
your solutions or even withinyour building a DevOps procedure
, to kind of create your devenvironments, which I know
people have done, and that'snothing wrong with that.
But this is very low code,quick and dirty way Boom do,
environment, environment, oh, Ineed these three solutions.
Boom, boom, boom, done,imported away.
You go, start developing.
(22:26):
And it'd be interesting to seehow this ties into um with that,
which is another feature that'sstill kind of coming out
rolling out.
That's a little half-baked.
Is the github integration, umor the Git integration with
solutions?
I've tried it.
I've run into a few roadblocks.
I reached out to our friendYannick Riekmans, who's done a
lot with it, and I said, yannick, am I missing something?
(22:46):
And he kind of responded backgoing no, no, no, no.
It doesn't do what you want itto do in that respect yet.
So okay, anyways, keep an eyeout.
We'll talk about that this year.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
For sure, guaranteed, oh yeah, yeah, it's one of the
big ones, the.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
ALM story just keeps rolling.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Oh yeah, and also maybe people are a bit confused
about pipelines because you canonly deploy managed solutions
through pipelines.
But every time you usepipelines it always grabs both
unmanaged and managed solutionsand you can only deploy the
managed ones but now on the backend of it you can actually
import the unmanaged one.
So it's getting more advancedand it's kind of reaching out as
a little nugget, here and therea new functionality, and that's
(23:32):
not the last we've seen of thepipeline story.
It's just getting better andwe've hit our head against the
wall that wall a bit this year.
But we're seeing where it'sgoing and it's a very good thing
to watch, good space to watchand then, yeah, I was just going
(23:55):
to talk about we're going intothe Power Pages section Our
friend Michel Mendez.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Michel he, I think we call him.
We said Michael before, but Ibelieve it's Michel and please
correct us.
I met him in Ireland at theIrish Power Platform Summit we
had.
It was really cool to meet him.
He's a great guy, veryenthusiastic, but at any rate,
he has this really cool blogpost about using the PDF
(24:26):
JavaScript library in PowerPages.
This is something that comes upa lot.
People want to see a PDFrendered in a Power Pages site,
so he's shown a way how to dothat.
That's pretty exciting.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Very much.
It's actually a requirementthat I have coming up.
So when I saw this, I was superexcited.
I don't have to search to findout how to do this.
I can simply just copy the codeand he has all the code in
there.
So no excuse to not check itout and just go grab.
To be fair, you could do thiswith PowerPages as well.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
But Matthew Devaney from good old Winnipeg here in
Canada.
He has a Power Automate flow tohost a web page web application
technique that I know I youknow again, this isn't about me,
but I posted something aboutfive years ago which I based it
(25:29):
off of another MVP in Australiathat did something similar as
well and it's kind of followinga process called JAMstack, which
is JAMstack is JavaScriptapplicator, app management or
something like that's an acronymthere.
The idea is you create a statichtml file with power automate,
(25:50):
you throw that up on a web pageand then, of course, with that
you can fill in whatever detailsor update information that
calls through an http requestalso calls power automate, which
will write it back, whether toto Dataverse or SharePoint list
or whatever.
So again, this is why I lovethis kind of content, because it
shows a solution of, I think, avery elegant solution that's
(26:13):
not overly complicated, thatcould address a lot of web page
requirements in terms ofdisplaying data on a static
website.
You don't necessarily need tohave it talking to Dataverse
back and forth in something likePowerPages.
Sometimes you definitely do,that makes sense, but other
times you just need to displaysome information.
So this was pretty cool to seethat from Matthew Deviney.
(26:35):
It also reminded me of ourfriend Matt Snecker did a
presentation very similar atDirections in November and how
they build their event websitefor ColorCloud, for example,
using similar techniques to this.
Of course it's a little bitmore advanced because they have
a lot of more features, but italways goes to the thing right
tool for the right job andsometimes it's good to think out
(26:58):
of the box and sometimes thosetools like Power Automate can
really go above and beyondreally what you think they can
do.
So check out Matthew's his linkand, of course, subscribe to
his newsletter.
He's really super consistent ondeveloping blog articles and
he's very structured.
He has a table of contents.
You could tell he spends a lotof time, a lot of effort to make
(27:18):
his content consistent and veryreadable.
So thanks, Matthew for that.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, 100% is always solid and some of the times it
seems that it's scratching thesurface, but that's just to grab
your attention and then it justdives right in and gives you
all the little details that youneed to make it work.
So, yeah, absolutely good work.
And speaking of websites, justkeeping on the theme here, we
(27:43):
saw something this week from ourgood friend Megan Walker as
well, about how finally we cando website tracking in real time
marketing.
It's been lacking and now it'sfinally here.
She goes through what it isabout, why you need it and how
you can make it work and alsohow to enable the feature.
(28:04):
It's still in preview, uh, itwill give you a little snippet
that you can add to your site oryour pages and it'll give you
statistics, uh, about intelemetry, on website visits and
and also website link clicks,so you can set that up to track
your visitors and also then, ofcourse, use that to trigger um
(28:26):
orchestration and and otherthings in your marketing app to
make sure that you reach theright people.
It's so marketing these days.
You used to be about, you know,splashing your marketing um all
around the place, but now it'svery much about the, the bespoke
, uh, communication and thebespoke kind of message that you
(28:47):
want to get across, and youwant to get it across as pointy
as you possibly can.
So this is very good and animportant enhancement to the
marketing business application,for sure.
Yeah, well done, yep.
And then, last but not least,we have your mentee.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Well, yeah, Now I hope I remember how the
pronunciation of your name goesHudin Rashid, and if I got this
wrong, please correct us.
You know we have to screw upsomeone's name every episode.
I think, or don't have to.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I don't think we've failed one yet.
So yeah, definitely have to dothat.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I'm sorry, but on the flip side, he has a real, of
course, new year right.
What are things that are onpeople's you know goal list for
2025?
Oh, I need to get mycertifications or I need to make
sure I renew my certifications.
I renewed my pl 400 a few weeksago with, I think, three or
four days to spare before itexpires.
(29:44):
Yeah, I did it while I waschanging tires, actually, but
waiting in line, but that's awhole other story.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I had my laptop up and everything.
We won't say how many attemptsI did when while the dude was
changing your tires.
That's not while you werechanging the tires, just so that
people get confused that he hasa laptop in one hand and
changing tires or the other no,sitting in his car while the
dude changed the tires.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Okay, yes, yes, exactly so.
Anyways, he has done.
Uh, this is something that.
So, of course, your newcertifications are looking into
the certifications.
The it's given a good roadmapof the order, because that's
always a very common questionlike, okay, which one should I
do first, which one should Ifocus on?
Um, and it goes even above andbeyond just the power platform
(30:34):
one, so it's also incorporatingthe applied skills as well.
I love the applied skills.
Applied skills you go in, youtry it out for yourself, you
click on the buttons, you buildthe little app or you configure
the app or you make the changes,and then you submit that and
within minutes it comes backtelling you you passed or failed
um.
(30:54):
So he kind of goes through likepl 900 great place to start the
applied skills, you know,because pl 100 did get, I think,
removed or deprecated.
So that's why the appliedskills are there, going through
the PL 200, 500, 400, some ofthe more applied skills, all the
way up, including stuff likeAzure Fundamentals, which really
makes sense.
(31:14):
That's a certification I've notgotten, but we do in our
day-to-day, we do work andintegrate with Azure.
So it is definitely you know.
Yeah, yeah, I should probablyget that certification as well,
so it's a great way to you knowif you're upping your skills.
Of course, at the end of theday, experience is where you
really need to hone your skills,become your craftsman, but
(31:38):
these certifications do give youan exposure to all the
different things, allows you tohave okay, I didn't know about
this feature, I have to learnabout it to pass an exam, and
then the next time you're in aposition where you're
architecting a solution, you'relike oh yeah, this feature
really applies to thisparticular use case.
So that's why I thinkcertification is important.
So we're going to put the linkin it's to a LinkedIn post, but
(31:59):
it's a check out thatcertification roadmap if this is
part of your 2025 goals anddreams.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Oh yeah, and it absolutely should be.
So very, very good resource.
Last but not least, let's justrun quickly to the events that
are up and coming.
First one on the list for me isArctic Cloud Developer
Challenge three-day hackathon inOslo from the 23rd of January.
It's sold out.
That's fantastic.
(32:25):
15 teams, yeah, well over 50attendees, six judges across the
board.
It's going to be an amazingevent, for sure.
And then you have Talin comingup, Yep.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
So I'll be at Talin and I have a session on the
Developer's Guide to Power Pages.
Potentially could have gotroped into other stuff because
they were, you know, making surethere are backup sessions and,
of course, this is such awell-organized event in terms of
the communication, in terms ofthe sessions and, like you know,
I'm looking at the WhatsAppgroup and even in terms of the
(33:01):
rolling out what's going's.
I know Vivian, our friendVivian Voss, is involved in.
Yeah, great job.
I'm really looking forward tothis, looking forward to
attending this event First time.
I'll be in Estonia as well, soit's another country off the
checklist and yeah, so if you'resay hi, if you're going to be
there, we'd be happy to meet you.
(33:27):
Yeah, and maybe get a sticker,and then you have a Canadian
Power Platform Summit coming upthe weekend before MVP.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Summit.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yeah, the weekend before MVP Summit.
This is in Vancouver, sotickets are now on sale.
There's the, and then workshops, workshops it's a steal.
There's been some internaldebate on the pricing of
workshops.
Right now, $249 Canadian is theearly bird price.
(33:53):
The way the exchange rate isnow, it is dirt cheap.
And there are some amazingworkshops.
There's Lisa Crosby and DionTaylor yeah, doing a co-pilot
studio Like the two top peoplein the world.
You get access to them for afull day for $249 Canadian.
(34:16):
That's crazy.
Like that's worth any kind ofairfare hotel like that you
might have to spend to get there.
To get that.
There's also, I think, um mattsnecker and uh carl cookson.
I believe they're doing one, analm one, and uh joe griffin
(34:38):
maybe griffin, um, is doing oneon and um, sebastian, thank you,
are doing one on.
I believe, power effects aswell.
Um, nice, so check out thoseagain.
Uh, early birds till january30th um, so cash in on that now.
(34:58):
Um, the there are tickets forthe general session as well.
It's 25 canadian and again,we're not.
It is not to make money.
It is not to make money.
It is really just for you tohave a little bit of a skin in
the game that you'll show up,because we do have limited
capacity.
We want to make sure we usethat capacity and then also make
sure that the food we orderdoesn't nothing goes to waste.
That's really one of ourbiggest goals there.
(35:20):
So, definitely, if you'recoming, going to be in Vancouver
, you know, you know, yesno-transcript, then get your
(35:55):
ticket sooner rather than later,because these things sell out,
especially at that price.
Yeah, and the workshops includea free pass to the general
session.
So that's another way,Absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
And then I have a ColorCloud in April to the
general session.
So that's another way,absolutely yeah.
And then I have a color cloudin April with well, I'm actually
doing multiple things.
I'm doing a workshop PowerPages from Creation to Go Live.
It's my first kind of bigworkshop that I'm doing on my
own and of course, it had to bePower Pages.
We're going to take you throughall the steps that you need in
(36:25):
order to get your brandingfoundation, in order to set your
security right, to go throughthe checklist, to get into
production, how to do ALM, topush through to test and
production.
We're going to set up someforms and lists and use
out-of-the-box components asmuch as possible and, of course,
also dive into the differentuser interfaces that you need to
(36:47):
know how to navigate to usePowerPages properly.
So if you're getting startedwith PowerPages and doing a
project, then this is theworkshop for you.
Also, I wanted to shout out tomy mentee, elvira Shrikic Names.
I need to get that right.
Sorry, elvira, that's horrible,I'll practice.
(37:09):
She's doing her first sessionthere on Power Pages and Coal
Pallet as well, and I'm doing asession with Andrew Wingate on
BC and Power Pages.
So Coal Accra is going to bebusy for me and also, this thing
is going to sell out as well.
It's going to be a bit biggerthan last year, but just get
(37:31):
your ticket right away.
And then you have a lot ofother things as well, a lot of
small things this spring.
Do you want to talk about oneof them, or do you want to save
that for later?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
The one in Dynamics Minds.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Yeah, so I am doing a session on Dynamics Minds.
It is a different session I'venever done before.
To be honest, I'm quite a bitnervous about it and I'm trying
to formulate in my head how I'mgoing to structure that all
together.
But it's really effectively.
It's about another passion ofmine powerlifting, but also ties
into mental health and withinour profession, within our
(38:11):
information technologyprofession.
So it's a pretty personal story.
Like I said, I'm pretty nervousabout it.
So we'll see how this evolves.
I have some ideas how I'm goingto frame that, but we'll see
how that kind of forms out.
So Dynamics Mines believe it ornot, I know they have selected
a whole bunch of sessions, butthey're still accepting session
(38:33):
submissions till January 15th,so you'll still have a few days.
If you're considering it, makesure you get that in as well.
Now we also have sessionsubmissions to a whole bunch of
other events which we've not gotconfirmation on.
So this list might expand quitea bit.
Probably will.
(38:53):
Yeah, so we're sort of seeingwhat the status is before we
make any kind of announcementsthere, because we don't know for
sure and a lot of it.
A session submission for meactually determines whether I'm
going to actually be able to goor justify the going or not.
So we'll see how that evolves.
And we got through quite a bit.
(39:13):
We've stayed close to ourregular time-ish and our next
episode I say here, next episodeJanuary 8th, but that's not
right.
This is this episode 22nd ofJanuary.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
This is this episode, 22nd, 22nd 22nd of January.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Wow, I know, and that will be our 50th episode.
Can you believe it?
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Yeah, I know, isn't it cool?
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Yeah, we need to, maybe we'll.
I know we say now we'll dosomething special, but that's
already in January.
We're busy.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
No, you don't believe in it.
We're shit-tum people.
Come on, we can do this.
Probably we'll dress up ormaybe we'll have a song or a
dance.
You just have to tune in to seewhat we come up with.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
We're open to suggestions as well.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
No, we're not, of course we are.
Okay, it was good chatting withyou and I love to keep up to
date on the Power Platform stuff, of course, and I'll catch you
in a couple of weeks, yeah forsure.
All right, perfect, bye,everybody.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
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(40:42):
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
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