🧰 Setting up the CoE Starter Kit Part Three: Using the Setup Wizard.

If you've completed steps one and two, then you're ready for the fun part. Thankfully our friends at Power CAT have made setting up the key components of Core a breeze with their handy new setup wizard. The wizard is still in preview, so you may experience the odd bump or two (and I will … Continue reading 🧰 Setting up the CoE Starter Kit Part Three: Using the Setup Wizard. →

🧰 Setting up the CoE Starter Kit Part Two: Get your Environment Ready!

Next up, we need to find the right home for the CoE Starter Kit. There are a few simple rules we need to follow to ensure we provide the most optimal environment for the toolkit. 🔧🔨 Environment Requirements With support for the Teams version of the CoE no longer being supported or improved upon, I … Continue reading 🧰 Setting up the CoE Starter Kit Part Two: Get your Environment Ready! →

🧰 Setting up the CoE Starter Kit Part One: Get your Service User Ready!

One of the biggest barriers to getting started with Governance for the Power Platform is gaining visibility over what your landscape currently looks like. Luckily, we have the Center of Excellence Starter Kit (affectionately known as the CoE starter kit 💖) that contains a suite of tools to help Power Platform admins govern efficiently and … Continue reading 🧰 Setting up the CoE Starter Kit Part One: Get your Service User Ready! →

How to Create an M365 Developer Tenant for Power Platform.

Which option do I CHOOSE?! I was recently trying to get a friend of mine set up with an environment she could learn Power Platform from but she does not have a Work or School account tied to Microsoft. I went digging and decided to try the M365 E5 Developer Subscription (try saying that three … Continue reading How to Create an M365 Developer Tenant for Power Platform. →

Power Automate: Send Rocketbook scans to OneDrive folders dynamically.

Lift off! Automatically send documents to the right folder! I've recently gone back to using Rocketbook to help keep track of my notes, especially now that I am back in Pre-Sales and working with multiple clients on a regular basis. For those of you not familiar with Rocketbook, it's a pretty simple but smart product: … Continue reading Power Automate: Send Rocketbook scans to OneDrive folders dynamically. →

Power Apps: Adding the Component Library to a Solution

I am brand new to the world of Canvas Apps. As soon as I started building headers and menus and other things, I began to wonder if there was a way to create a repository of reusable components. After a little searching, I discovered Component Libraries! More recently, I also discovered they can be built … Continue reading Power Apps: Adding the Component Library to a Solution →

Let’s Talk: What is the Common Data Service?

Majestic! Over the last year, you may have heard more than one mention of the "CDS" or the Common Data Service and wondered what was so special about it. What is this mythical beast and why is everyone fawning over it? In this blog I'll go over the key areas of are some of the … Continue reading Let’s Talk: What is the Common Data Service? →

Randomising Topics with Power Virtual Agent 🤖

Random Bot Chat! Recently, I spent some time with the wonderful Matt Collins-Jones who helped me build a randomiser for my Beer Bot! We built a Flow that would pop back an image of a random beer! However, we can take this one step further and have the bot spit out a topic at random. … Continue reading Randomising Topics with Power Virtual Agent 🤖 →

Account Based Marketing – Building Simple Reports 📊

Rolling up can be frustrating! Recently I was asked by a client if there was a way to view all Email Activities from Contacts that belonged to an Account. Initially, I thought "No problem - that's a simple Advanced Find" however when I started diving into things, I very quickly ran into some problems. In … Continue reading Account Based Marketing – Building Simple Reports 📊 →

Generate simple pre-built emails with Power Virtual Agent 🤖

Power Virtual Agent is having a spectacular moment right now with so many different applications from a Beer Bot to a Support Bot. I have recently been building a bot that helps my team locate the correct resource based on a series of questions. However, sometimes my team might need to email in specific information … Continue reading Generate simple pre-built emails with Power Virtual Agent 🤖 →