For more details, you can refer to our documentation @ https://aka.ms/PowerAdvisorDocs. You can bookmark the link https://aka.ms/PowerAdvisor, to access the Power Platform Advisor.

During the preview, we observed hundreds of customers actively using Advisor to optimize thousands of apps. We’ve also got some fantastic feedback during our preview phase. Here are a couple of quotes from our customers:

“At Provoke Solutions, we’re thrilled about the transformative impact of the Power Platform Advisor offering. This advancement marks a significant leap, enabling our global customer base to manage and govern the Power Platform on an unprecedented scale. With the introduction of the automation options and recommendations, we’re not just boosting efficiency; we’re enabling a Power Platform administrator to deliver on the promise of delivering a well governed environment to their organization. The Advisor is a testament to the potential of innovative technology to redefine platform management and governance, promising to be a game changer for our customers.”

– Brendon Ford, COO, Provoke Solutions

“At Chemours, the advisor is an essential component in the Microsoft Power Platform admin center for our governance processes. It helps us to quickly identify any orphaned applications, that can be business-critical and assign new owners to mitigate business process impact. The advisor feature, offers a comprehensive solution for admins to efficiently manage governance and security, ensuring data and applications are safeguarded at all times. We’re thrilled with the investment and look forward to the future, with advisor, and making advisor available in all products of the Power Platform.”

– Akash Patel, Business Application Governance and Innovator, The Chemours Company

These quotes highlight the impact Power Platform Advisor has had in optimizing their Power Platform tenant and enhancing their overall governance experience.

What’s Next?

As we move forward, Power Platform and Environment admins should expect several additional recommendations coming to the Advisor. We are continuously working to improve and expand the capabilities of Power Platform Advisor based on your feedback and needs.

We Value Your Feedback

Your feedback is invaluable to us. As you start using Power Platform Advisor, we encourage you to share your thoughts and experiences. Your insights will help us enhance this feature and better serve your governance needs. Thank you for your continued support and happy optimizing with Power Platform Advisor!

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With Power Platform Advisor, you can:

• Get proactive, personalized best practices recommendations.
• Improve the overall health of your Power Platform tenant.
• Take inline actions or automate actions using cloud flows.

With this public preview, recommendations are initially focused on Security and Operational Efficiency. Advisor makes it easy to clean up unused apps, lock down overshared apps, and add owners to abandoned apps. You can view these recommendations, see the individual resources involved, and evaluate and take inline actions.

Power Platform Advisor offers several capabilities:

• Top Recommendations visible on the Power Platform admin center homepage and in the Advisor page that can be accessed from the left navigation menu.
• Actionable Recommendations for impacted apps and resources.
• Automated Actions using cloud flows extensibility and the new Power Platform Admin v2 connector (currently in preview).
• Weekly Focus Card in Teams highlighting the top 2 recommendations based on impact.
• Share Recommendations feature for team collaboration or to delegate actions.

“At Lumen Technologies, we have found that using advisor in Microsoft Power Platform admin center is essential for our maintenance and governance. It enables us to quickly re-assign apps that have no owner or quarantine apps that are not in compliance. When used in conjunction with the Center of Excellence Starter Kit, advisor completes the picture. We are excited about the investment and the future how with advisor we can better protect and ensure the safety of our data and apps.” –

Andrew Gaskins, Principal Solution Architect, Lumen Technologies

Power Platform Advisor is accessible to all tenant admins in the Power Platform admin center and customers with at least one Managed environment in their tenant via https://aka.ms/PowerAdvisor. It’s currently being rolled out to all the tenants and will be available in all tenants by the end of this month. Tenant analytics should be enabled in your tenant for Power Platform Advisor to work, and it might take up to 3 days for the recommendations to show up once the tenant analytics is enabled.

Learn more at https://aka.ms/PowerAdvisorDocs.

We are just starting the journey with Power Platform Advisor and have many more recommendations and actions lined up over the coming months. We are eager to see how you will use Advisor to optimize your Power Platform deployments. Your feedback is invaluable to us, so please don’t hesitate to share your thoughts and experiences.

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Power Apps has had Content Security Policy (CSP) support for model-driven apps since the beginning of the year, which was configured by running script as a System Administrator.

With these new capabilities, you can now control the CSP header for model-driven as well as canvas apps in the environment in Power Platform Admin Center. CSP can be configured in both enforced and report-only mode.

Configuration in Power Platform Admin Center

CSP can be configured using the Content security policy settings under the Privacy + Security section of an environment in Power Platform Admin Center. Turning enforcement on will provide protection against clickjacking attacks for apps in that environment. CSP is configured independently for model-driven and canvas apps, except for reporting which applies to both.

Reporting and enforcement are disabled by default, and we recommend you turn on enforcement in your production environments only after testing your apps in a sandbox environment with CSP turned on to ensure any intended functionality isn’t blocked due to this change. We also recommend turning reporting-only mode on in production before enforcement to catch any lingering issues before enforcement is enabled.

CSP support for canvas apps

Model-driven apps have had the ability to send default and custom CSP for some time. With this update we’ll support CSP for canvas apps as well. The default and customizable pieces of the CSP header are the same for both model-driven and canvas, but they are configured independently, allowing you to perform a gradual CSP rollout.

Violation reporting

As part of the CSP settings, you can also enable reporting and provide a custom reporting endpoint to receive any content security policy violation reports. This capability helps preview what violations would be blocked before turning it on completely. Refer to the Content Security Policy documentation for details on building reporting endpoint.

Please review the documentation for more details and as always, we would love to hear from you on how we could keep improving this feature. Please leave your feedback and comments on this post.

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Today we’re taking a step further and bringing these validations to your development environment to help you find and fix issues in your JavaScript code before being added to a solution. We are excited to announce the public preview of ESLint rules for Power Apps model-driven apps and Dynamics 365 CE.

How to get it?

If you already have the ESLint extension for Visual Studio Code installed, you can get started by adding Power Apps ESLint npm package name and version in package.json in the build tools. Note that the version number will change when this becomes generally available.

Next step is to configure the ESLint rules in the eslintrc file.

How does it work?

When the npm packaged is installed and the ESLint rules are configured in the eslintrc file, any violations in the code will be caught and listed in the problems console automatically. Hovering over the issue in code will show a detailed description of the violation, corrections needed, and a link to a document that provides more details.

Call to action

Install Power Apps ESLint npm package in your development environment and try it. Refer to the documentation to learn more about the rules and detailed instructions.

Please share your feedback/suggestions in this thread.

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The new interface adds a new “Add to Teams” button along with the “Download app” button in the side panel.

Download app button allows you download the app manifest, which can then be uploaded to Teams for personal/team use or can be submitted to Teams tenant admin for broader distribution.

The new “Add to Teams” button eliminates the need to download and upload the app for personal/team use. Clicking this button will take you directly to the app installation dialog in Microsoft Teams.

You can follow the instructions in that dialog to add the app to the personal app catalog, to an existing/new chat, or to a channel.

Getting started is extremely easy. Just navigate to the apps list, select a canvas app, and click Add to Teams. From there, a panel will walk you through all of the necessary steps to add the app to Teams.

As always, please reach out to me if you’ve any feedback.

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Keep checking ‘Important changes coming in Power Apps’, for a complete list of all deprecation announcements.

Why make the move to Dynamics 365 App for Outlook?

Dynamics 365 App for Outlook provides even better value to users with improved capabilities, reliability, and performance. A snapshot of some of the benefits:

• Unified Interface Dynamics 365 App for Outlook is built on the Unified Interface framework, which uses responsive web design principles to provide an optimal viewing and interaction experience for any screen size, device, or orientation.
• Global search or multi-entity search Use global search to search for a keyword in multiple entities at the same time. Global search uses the quick find view for the various entities to search for records.
• Forms View and edit forms the same as what you see in the mobile experience.
• Dashboards View and edit dashboards the same as what you see in the mobile experience.
• Cross platform Dynamics 365 App for Outlook is built using the modern Office add-ins, and supports Windows, Mac desktop clients, iOS and Android phones, and Outlook web access on all major browsers.
• Deployment Centralized deployment and distribution by configuring users to the app makes it easy to onboard to App for Outlook.

Where can I find more information?

For further information on the App for Outlook, please review the content pages on the Microsoft documentation site.

We also have a detailed guidance playbook which should help you plan the next steps of your transition and cover any frequently asked questions.

Please take a look at the Outlook COM Playbook.

Other key reminders

We’ve announced the deprecation of the legacy web client. Customers should make the move as soon as possible to Unified Interface. The deadline date has been updated to December 1, 2020 following the blog post from James Phillips.

If you are planning a move to Unified Interface, we have a collection of related content within the Dynamics 365 Unified Interface community site. 

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With the launch of our Unified Interface we now have more opportunity than ever to improve productivity and enable users to better engage with client information across everyday tools such as Outlook. The benefits of adopting the Dynamics 365 App for Outlook for customers and partners are numerous, including:

• Unified Interface. Dynamics 365 App for Outlook is built on the Unified Interface framework, which uses responsive web design principles to provide an optimal viewing and interaction experience for any screen size, device, or orientation.
• Global search or multi-entity search. Use global search to search for a keyword in multiple entities at the same time. Global search uses the quick find view for the various entities to search for records.
• View and edit forms the same as what you see in the mobile experience.
• Dashboards. View and edit dashboards the same as what you see in the mobile experience.
• Cross platform. Dynamics 365 App for Outlook is built using the modern Office add-ins, and supports Windows, Mac desktop clients, iOS and Android phones, and Outlook web access on all major browsers.
• Centralized deployment and distribution by configuring users to the app, makes it easy to onboard users to App for Outlook.

What are we announcing?

Dynamics 365 App for Outlook is utilized across many organizations and provides better performance and stability than the Outlook COM Add-in. Today we are announcing the deprecation of the Outlook COM Add-in. Customers should make the move prior to October 1, 2020. Microsoft will continue to provide support, security and other critical updates to the Outlook COM Add-in until October 1, 2020.

This announcement applies to online organizations, but we recommend our on-premise customers also take advantage of the benefits of Dynamics 365 App for Outlook and upgrade from the Outlook COM Add-in at the earliest.

For a complete list of all deprecation announcements keep checking this location.

Where can I find more information?

For further information on the  Dynamics 365 App for Outlook please review the content pages on the Microsoft documentation site

Please take a look at the latest Playbook to help you plan the next steps of your transition

If you are also planning a move to Unified Interface, we have a collection of related content within the public-facing community site

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In order to help the maker stay focused while building apps, we are introducing a new feature to create entity fields inline.  With this feature, makers will now be able to add ‘new’ fields from within the field selection panel’s “Add field” callout. Makers can use the “New field” button on this callout to quickly create a field, or use the “Advanced settings” on the new field callout to create a  field using the full new field panel.

Once a field is created, it gets added to the form automatically.

The current release will allow adding primitive data types while working with Edit or Display forms. Support for complex data types (like Lookup, Option Sets etc.,), other data controls, and the ability to add new fields from form designer and view designers will be made available in future releases.

As always, please provide feedback to PowerApps Ideas.

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