Category Archives: Power Platform

Dataverse IP Firewall (and how to get yourself unblocked)

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 »

A Dataverse diagram that leads to some questions and turns into a bit of a rant

I was trying to visualize Dataverse data storage options, and this is where the diagram below started, but it actually did not go quite as planned and ended up being something slightly different. It seems difficult to look at the data options out of the context, so that’s the reason I had to keep adding… Read More »

Power Automate Licensing for in-context flows

Just when I thought my recent encounter with the upcoming licensing changes was dramatic enough, it turned out there is more to it. Do you have a project where you’ve been using multiple flows, apps, etc? Then keep reading but be prepared to lose sleep for a bit. Are you just starting a new project? Well, there… Read More »

Power Automate licensing – watch out for those limits

Not sure if you folks are aware – I was not, not until a few weeks ago when this came up in some discussions with the client, but, apparently, we should really start looking at our integration/migration/and other heavily utilized user accounts to see how many power platform requests are being made daily under those… Read More »

Why 500 matters for Canvas Apps?

There is something magical about five hundred: AND, ready for the next one? There is 500 limit on the number of controls you should be adding to your canvas applications: I am pretty sure you can add more, of course. There is no hard limit – as in, your application will not stop working if… Read More »

CoE Starter Kit – Solution Assessment App

In the latest version of the CoE Starter Kit, the team behind it has implemented “Nurture Apps – Maker” model-driven application for solution makers which, among other things, allows application makers to submit solution assessment to the COE admins: The questions there are configurable, but, in general, the purpose of this app is not necessarily… Read More »

Client self-service – how to license properly when the client is, also, an employee?

There is a scenario which came up recently, and, with the usual disclaimer that you may want to run any licensing suggestion by Microsoft, here is where this landed (the credit for those explanations goes to those who provided them) Let’s say you were using Power Pages, or, perhaps, you were using a custom web… Read More »

Simple Power Platform licensing mistakes to avoid

Power Platform licensing may still look like a beast sometimes, though it’s, probably, a tamed one now. Still, you would not want to tease a beast, and it’s a bit of the same with the licensing. There are a few simple mistakes to avoid, and there are probably more (but I’ll add them to this… Read More »

There is a new sheriff in town

Or, in our case, there is a new user in Power Pages: Power Pages :: Improved Dataverse connection using Dataverse Application User | Microsoft Power Pages In short, this change unlinks portal accounts from the built-in System user in Dataverse, and, even though the transition is supposed to be smooth, I figured I’d dig a… Read More »

Canvas Apps theming options

When talking about the theming, we may actually need to talk about two different aspects of it, though they usually come together. There are UI “appearance” settings such as font weight and size, background color, border width, etc. But there are, also, layout templates which are meant to define common application layout, layout elements, and,… Read More »