I recently made a post on LinkedIn where I simply provided a link to an article posted by someone else, and that produced some interesting responses and a bit of a discussion. Now that post does seem to require a closure, so this is what I’m going to write about today. The original LinkedIn post is stating… Read More »
It seems I still can’t quite get over those Power Automate licensing updates – new questions keep coming up, we keep digging, and that brings some new revelations. Well, today’s topic is multiplexing. First off all, “multiplexing” is not a bad word 😉 Here is how Microsoft defines it in the Client Access License (CAL) Requirements: “Multiplexing” is when individuals… Read More »
I’ve been trying to figure out the exact definition of what being “in app context” means for Power Automate flows, since that’s where it matters for license enforcement, but every time I seem to come close to having it all figured out, there is always something that does not quite add up. Here is a… Read More »
I don’t think a lot of things have changed since I learned about the tree swing analogy. Which has been a while ago, and, even by then, that analogy had been around for a lot longer😄 So it’s probably been like this forever, I’d think it would also be applicable to the pre-software-development days: Normally, we’d… Read More »
Hope you have not missed the news – I blogged about it before here, and it’s still coming. Soon enough, you may need to ensure your premium Power Automate flows are either get associated to the apps in order to keep running on the Power Apps licensing plans, or you’ll need to license those flows differently.… Read More »
Have you tried creating a support ticket recently in the Power Platform Admin Portal? Give it a try even if only out of curiosity – I was offered a chat option! Well, I was not offered an option to opt out, so I figured I’d give it a try😁 That was rather neat, and I… Read More »
There are all sorts of definitions of what Microsoft Dataverse is. Just go to https://powerplatform.microsoft.com/en-us/dataverse/, and you’ll get a few right away: Microsoft Dataverse is the data backbone that enables people to store their data in a scalable and secure environment dynamically. It enables [us] to look at data as a service spun up on-demand to… Read More »
ITA Business Rules Admin v1.01 has been released, and it comes with some cool features: 1. You can now register your rules to run in Pre-Validation, in Pre-Operation, or in Post-Operation Why is this important? Those stages correspond to the plugin execution stages, and, depending on what happens behind the scene, Post-Operation data may be… Read More »
These are not the same business rules you are used to in Dataverse – these are relying on the plugins and FetchXML, so, technically, there is nothing new since we’ve been using plugins forever. However, the cool thing about them is that: Everything is in git, and you’ll find plugin source codes, as well as… Read More »
You may have seen the announcement – we can now configure Dataverse IP Firewall per managed environment: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/ip-firewall#what-is-audit-only-mode This is only possible in the managed environments, so all the licensing and other considerations still apply. Also, when specifying the IP address, you actually need to use CIDR format (classless inter-domain routing), which looks like this:… Read More »