What’s new and interesting in the world of Power Platform? Power BI From the Power BI Core Visuals vision board, January feature release blog, and YouTube: Power Platform Planner SharePoint / Lists What I’ve been up to The YouTube channel hit 1 million views today – THANK YOU all, I was caught somewhat off-guard when I got… Continue reading: January 2025 Power Platform News
Most of the documentation out there for Power Platform is a bit vague when it gets to when to apply what role. Here’s what the key roles are in Power Platform and where to use them. The Key Roles The first three roles below apply to the environment-level only. This is a key distinction, because… Continue reading: Power Platform Security Roles
There’s lots of “gotchas” in Power Automate – these surface as questions in both community forums and in video tutorials very frequently, so I thought I’d collect them all here in one place! I’ll keep adding to this list as time goes by. Resources & Throttling There’s two limits people frequently hit with Power Automate… Continue reading: Power Automate FAQ
The purpose of this post is to provide the information I wish I had when I started creating content on YouTube (and this blog). These are things I’ve picked up here and there over the course of a couple of years of trial and error and various content channels – not to say I know… Continue reading: Getting Started in Content Creation
Creating tasks in a system that allows interaction with said tasks (e.g. checking a box to complete) can be really tedious and time-consuming – this makes it a perfect target for AI automation! My issue is that most of the AI tools designed for this across all the systems I’ve tried are currently half-baked, meaning… Continue reading: Using AI to Create Tasks
If you’ve tried out the “visualize this list” functionality in Microsoft / SharePoint lists, you may have noticed that they’re not stored in the typical Power BI workspaces. You’re not prompted to choose a workspace to put the report in, and are instead dropped to a URL in Power BI that starts with “https://app.powerbi.com/sharepointlist/groups/”. If… Continue reading: Where are “Visualize this List” models and reports stored in Power BI?
What’s new and interesting in the world of Power Platform? Power BI From the Power BI Core Visuals vision board: Sidenote, the vision board linked above is also a Power BI report itself – @Power BI Park has a “reverse-engineer” tutorial here. In other Power BI / Fabric news, org apps were also released recently, allowing multiple… Continue reading: December 2024 Power Platform News
I used Notion, and I liked it. There… I said it. Here’s why. If you’re not familiar with Notion, but you ARE familiar with Microsoft products, Notion vaguely resembles a combination of Microsoft Loop and SharePoint Lists. This is a strangely emotional topic for me, because my career is based primarily around Microsoft 365, but… Continue reading: Notion vs Microsoft Loop & Microsoft Lists: A Comparison of Features
Microsoft 365 has two different types of groups that can be used to control access to resources: Security groups (formerly called Azure Active Directory, also now called Entra ID) and Microsoft 365 groups. Structurally, these behave very differently – for example, a Microsoft 365 group comes with a shared mailbox and SharePoint site, and does… Continue reading: Group Types in Microsoft 365
Date tables are one of my favorite things in Power BI, right up there with field parameters. Particularly the ability to make all of my date filtering relative is one of the things I really love about them – it can really reduce the maintenance for reports to have measures and filters “stick” to current… Continue reading: Date Tables in Power BI