All of these announcements are entering preview by December 2024: 

• Plan designer is ready for preview. In September 2024, we opened early access for select users to a new AI-powered workspace for turning requirements into a robust Microsoft Power Platform solution—including user stories, data model, apps, and automations. In the next weeks, we’re expanding access to a full preview. Designing a solution plan with Microsoft Copilot will make it easier than ever to upgrade existing apps and processes into intelligent applications.   

• Makers can generate custom AI agents directly from Power Apps using the knowledge, logic, and actions built into existing apps to jumpstart the building of a Microsoft Copilot Studio agent. These custom agents will get work done on behalf of employees, which can reduce repetitive work, supercharge individual productivity, and drive overall business efficiency.¹ Makers will also be able to tune the out-of-the-box agents in Power Apps with custom knowledge and actions using Copilot Studio.

• Introducing managed security and managed operations in Power Platform. Just as we have simplified governance with managed environments, we are now making it easier than ever for organizations to apply advanced security to their Power Platform solutions and manage mission-critical workloads at scale. A completely redesigned admin experience now features focused capabilities for managing security, deploying solutions, monitoring telemetry, and more. 

Together, these advancements represent a major disruption to the traditional “build versus buy” tradeoff of business apps. By generating intelligent applications on a fully managed platform, technology leaders can get the best of both worlds—solutions that are purpose-built for exactly their needs but without the long-term costs of maintaining full stack projects. Forrester’s John Bratincevic argues that this is the beginning of a substantial shift.

“AI-powered enterprises will “build” software instead of “buy” it—and many applications in enterprise portfolios will consolidate onto low-code AppGen platforms.”

John Bratincevic, Principal Analyst, Forrester

Let’s dig into the details of how Power Platform is leading the AppGen transition with new capabilities rolling out now.

Build enterprise solutions, start with a plan 

In September 2024, we opened early access to a new Copilot-powered workspace in Power Apps that enables makers to design and generate a robust solution to nearly any business problem. With highly positive feedback from customers, we’re excited to bring the plan designer capabilities to preview.

Now developers will be able to start working on a business problem in an iterative process with Copilot, and keep better connection between the business requirements and the solution they are building.

The entire process of building a plan and generating solution components is iterative and collaborative. At any point makers can make changes to defined user roles, requirements, data model, or the proposed user experiences. The plan will live alongside the solution, changing with it and ensuring the understanding of the problem and requirements persist.  

The new plan designer experience will make a powerful tool for creating well-structured, adaptable, and collaborative solutions using Power Apps and Power Platform. 

Generate custom AI agents from existing app capabilities  

Makers can now easily generate agents from existing apps using the logic, knowledge, and actions built into those apps. Makers can leverage Copilot Studio capabilities directly in Power Apps to build custom agents that get work done on behalf of employees. Once these agents are deployed, users can review activity, manage complex cases, and focus on higher value work.

For instance, in a reimbursement management app, a maker takes existing process—categorization, compliance check, or rejecting requests—and builds an agent to execute these tasks. Makers can start from an existing app, and agent builder will suggest actions based on the app’s construction, like activating flows or running Power Fx functions. This significantly shortens the time to get to user value and makers can continue expanding agent functionality in Copilot Studio. For example, they can add the ability to process receipt images using the pre-built prompt with GPT-4o. 

For users, the benefits are clear: instead of requiring each request to be reviewed by a person, an agent handles it. Makers can also allow users to see which rows have been recently modified by the agent and view previous agent sessions. This transparency ensures that users can intervene when necessary, maintaining visibility and control. This functionality will be available to makers starting next month.

Improved in-app agents for data entry and summaries 

In addition to generating new custom agents, we’re also improving the out-of-the-box agents that end users leverage within Power Apps to get work done more efficiently.

Data entry is one of the tasks that many people consider tedious, and it’s no surprise that the Power Apps data entry agent, which helps users fill out forms, is highly valued by customers. At Power Platform Community Conference 2024, we announced the ability to copy text and let AI suggest form inputs from the clipboard. In a study with information workers, this Copilot assistance enabled 29% faster form filling, with 95% preferring it over manual entry.² Now, users in model-driven apps can also directly add an email or file and get field suggestions from them. The new context control lets users see what data is used to predict fields, giving them more control. In canvas apps, entering long text input with Copilot now allows for custom prompts and presents multiple options to choose from—just like people are used to from Microsoft Word.

Quickly find what you need and understand a summary of complex records. Searching, sorting, and filtering of records using natural language with the help of the Power Apps data exploration agent is now available to all users in preview. And to give users easy insights, makers can add custom AI summaries to apps with a summary card—the performance of which they can review in the monitoring page.   

Copilot chat in apps can also now be customized—starting from the app designer, makers can open Copilot Studio, provision an agent responsible for the app chat experience and add new topics, knowledge grounding, domain-specific glossaries, and actions. A customized chat agent is then ready to help users with more relevant and helpful answers. 

Introducing managed security and managed operations 

In 2022, we introduced managed environments, a suite of governance capabilities that brought more visibility and control to administrators of Power Platform. We see every day how these capabilities allow IT teams to efficiently govern hundreds of thousands of assets, making well-governed use of Power Platform available to millions of users around the world, including for customers like Deutsche Bahn, Lerøy, and Lumen. 

Today, we take another step forward. We know that large-scale app modernization and the transition of existing business processes onto intelligent solutions in Power Platform and Dynamics 365 will require even more than great governance. That’s why we’re introducing two additional, closely related capabilities: managed security and managed operations. This means that Power Apps, Power Automate, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and Dynamics 365 are now delivered on a fully managed platform. 

• Managed governance helps organize and administer professional and citizen development with more visibility, more control, and less effort on the part of central teams.  

• [New] Managed security makes it easier than ever before to apply advanced threat protections across the platform, helping security professionals assess and improve the security footprint of their business applications. Managed security includes industry-leading capabilities for proactive threat detection, access management, compliance, and more. Learn more in the Power Platform security and governance blog. 

• [New] Managed operations makes it easier for advanced development teams to deploy and operate mission critical applications to maximize an organization’s productivity. This suite of capabilities is designed to safeguard and tune your production workloads with the ability to safely deploy updates, detect service degradations, and provide recommendations to improve production health. Learn more about managed operations.  

All managed capabilities are benefits of existing licenses and surface directly in existing products. This includes the Power Platform admin center (PPAC), which has now been completely re-imagined around a set of new highly productive workspaces for specific tasks—including reviewing inventory in managed environments, configuring and monitoring managed security, and leveraging managed operations capabilities for deployment and oversight.

These workspaces will also now be visible in focused ways in maker experiences. For example, developers will be able to observe and improve on the active usage of their applications in the monitoring workspace. They will see apps with low app open success rates and drill down on reasons why users can’t open the app, or they can see high latencies for showing the initial screen or data and understand what’s contributing to the problem. This will help makers find and address apps that require attention for improved performance.  

Today, we’re also making an important clarification to the licensing requirements for managed environments. Managed platform capabilities are a benefit of existing premium licenses, and any environment with managed features requires the users of any of the assets in that environment to have a premium license. We’re clarifying that as long as each individual user in the environment is appropriately licensed with at least one premium license—Power Apps or Power Automate—managed features will work and customers will be compliant.

Learn all about the updates to governance, scale, security, and data management capabilities in the breakout session Enterprise Scale: The Future of Power Platform Governance + Security. 

Apps that help users with line-of-business tasks 

Power Platform boasts a massive 1,400+ connector ecosystem, many of those connecting to the line-of-business data, giving options to business leaders and teams to build functionality they are missing to run business smoothly.  

We’re happy to announce two advances for building line-of-business apps. First, the SAP OData connector is now generally available, allowing access to SAP’s modern product stack, improving productivity and innovation with Power Platform’s low-code capabilities. Professionals building solutions over SAP will also benefit from a new whitepaper dedicated to architecting of SAP extensions.

And second, new bi-directional integration between Microsoft Dataverse and Snowflake allows makers to build end-to-end apps that act directly on Snowflake data, including the ability to create Dataverse virtual tables from Snowflake data. Coming soon, Dataverse data will be accessible in Snowflake so that customer service teams using Snowflake can leverage powerful analytics over their data in Dataverse, gaining deeper insights into customer behavior and enhancing service quality.

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Join us at Microsoft Ignite 2024 to see the newest announcements firsthand and understand how you can leverage them. Embrace the era of Copilot-first development and accelerate your company transformation into the age of AI with Power Apps. 

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Join the Power Apps team and be inspired by exciting new features, see amazing demos, learn about our roadmap, and connect with your peers from the awesome Power Apps Community! The official event starts at 8:00 AM PDT, however, the Power Apps sessions begin at 9:45 AM PDT.

Power Apps Featured Sessions:

FS101: Empower every dev to go faster with Microsoft Power Apps

CON-ATE101: Ask the Experts – Power Apps

See your favorite Power Apps team presenters and new announcements! 

See more Power Platform Sessions: when you register today!

We’re also celebrating the launch of our new user group experience on our Community Platform!  We invite all new and existing user group leaders to sign-up and have your user groups created and your events listed in the new user group experience! Visit Power Apps User Groups – Microsoft Power Apps Community to find your community, add your user group, sign-up, and accelerate your participation! Follow us on Twitter @MSPowerApps

There’s so much more for you to experience, and enjoy!

Register today! at https://mymbas.microsoft.com
We’re looking forward to seeing you! 

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Until now, users have had little transparency into the flow of model-driven apps unless they are comfortable wading through the complexity of browser developers tools or Fiddler.  It was hard to find events and logs that could help diagnose performance and functional issues.

We’re excited to announce that the Monitor tool is now available for model-driven apps!  The Monitor tool (currently supported on canvas apps) provides a way to view a stream of events from a user’s session in order to diagnose an issue.  As of this blog post, we support the following events on the latest build:

• KPI for page loads, command executions, and other major events
• Network request details
• Warnings for synchronous XHR’s
• Custom script errors (e.g. onload, ribbon rule evaluation)
• Form execution event details (e.g. onload, onchange)
• Form visibility reasons for controls and related menu items
• Power BI control failure and performance events

Note: depending on your CDS/Dynamics version, you may see a subset of these events as they roll out to your org.  Monitor for model-driven apps is currently only supported for browser sessions on online organizations.

Let’s take a look at Monitor in action!

There are two ways to enter a Monitor session for model apps.

1. Use the Monitor command from the apps page in Power Apps (see recent blog post for details).  Select any model-driven app and use the command from the top bar or the context menu to launch Monitor.  Then hit “Play model-driven app” from the Monitor page to launch your app.
2. Add “&monitor=true” to the end of the URL in the browser to show the Monitor button in the global command bar.  Clicking this button will launch a Monitor session in a new tab.  Note: as of this post, you need to “Play model-driven app” from the Monitor to connect a new session.  In the future, we’ll automatically connect Monitor to the existing session.

Once the app is launched from Monitor, you’ll see a Join dialog letting you know that any data from the app will be sent to the Monitor owner.

After hitting “Join”, events will start flowing to Monitor.  Let’s take a look at what events are being sent.

Events

Page navigations, command executions, form saves, and other major actions will send KPI and network events to Monitor.   Many events and fields are sent and supporting documentation will be published soon, but let’s take a look at some key ones below:

FullLoad signifies the complete load of a page navigation, such as an edit form load.  This waits for certain network requests to complete and all rendering to finish, so the form may indeed be usable before FullLoad completes.

The FullLoad event captures many statistics about the page load.  You can see the task edit form loaded in 506 ms, and clicking on the row reveals a wealth of information in the property pane.  As mentioned above, we will add more documentation on each field, but you can immediately see details on customScriptTime (time spend execute custom JavaScript), loadType (0 = first time loading page type, 1 = first time loading entity, 2  = first time loading record, 3 = exact record has been visited), and FormId (form identifier for further diagnosis).  Expanding Attribution gives a breakdown of custom JS execution time by type, publisher, solution, version, web resource, and method.  This can quickly help identify bottlenecks in form load time.

The Network events reveal details about each request made from the app:

You can see well-known network statistics like requestStart, responseStart, and decodedBodySize (see MDN documentation), as well as custom properties like whether the request was cached and sent as a fetch or XMLHttpRequest.

Solving issues and slow performance

Let’s look at a few scenarios where Monitor can shed light and solve script errors, unexpected behavior, and slowdowns.

Custom script errors

Sometimes, a bug in the custom JS will cause a script error or functionality issue when loading a page.  While this usually produces a call stack in the dialog, it’s hard to always know where it’s coming from or decode the error.  Monitor will receive an event from the app with more details on the error so you can debug more quickly and easily.

Let’s say a user is experiencing a script error dialog on account form load.  We can use Monitor to get more details on the event.  Once the scenario is reproduced, you can see the script error produces an error event highlighted in red.  Clicking on this row gives us not only the call stack but the publisher name, solution name/version, web resource name, and type (onload, onchange, RuleEvaluation, CustomControl, etc.).  Looks like a typo in the script, and we have a publisher to contact for a fix!

Slow performance

Browser developer tools can help profile slow page loads, but there is a lot of data to filter though and it’s not clear what is important to look at.  Monitor aims to solve that by showing relevant events that contribute to page load performance.

Let’s say a user is experiencing slow account form loads, and the browser is constantly freezing up.  In this case, once we reproduce, we can immediately see a performance warning telling us that a synchronous XMLHttpRequest was sent during the load which degraded performance.

See previous blog post for how to alleviate synchronous XHR performance issues.

For every page load, we send all KPI for the loading sequence as well as network request details as mentioned earlier.

Form control and related menu display

Look for a deeper blog post on this soon, but to give a sneak preview, Monitor will show events regarding tab and control visible/enabled state on the edit form.

If a user is wondering why a field isn’t showing up on an edit form, Monitor can easily help demystify.  In this scenario, the Last Campaign Date is not showing up on the account form.  There are series of uci_formchecker_* events produced on an edit form load (use the Category column filter if needed).  Once reproduced in a Monitor session, we can see the following event with Category uci_formchecker_controlstate_events.

Drilling into the details, we can scroll to Last Campaign Date and clearly see that The control is disabled in the form XML.  The action item is to Contact the form or entity owner to change it.

Feedback

We’re adding more events to model-driven apps every week to help diagnose common issues.  As always, please feel free to provide any feedback in the comments below or in our community post.  We’d like to know what’s useful to best support troubleshooting and transparency.

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OnReset

In a component master, select the component itself. Go to the drop-down list of properties on the right side of the formula bar. Select OnReset and then enter one or more formulas.

To trigger OnReset on a component instance, configure a control to Reset the component. Here are two examples.

Reset time picker

In this example, OnReset is used to reset a time picker.
You can download the time picker component here.

In this time picker component, there are two variables used to display the time _selectedHour and _selectedMinute.  When the picker gets reset, these variables should be reset to a default value, say 12: 12.  The OnReset property for the component has the following formula:

Set(_selectedHour,12); Set(_selectedMinute,12)

To trigger reset, go to a screen and insert an instance of the component. Add a button and configure OnSelect of the button to call Reset() on the component instance:

Show and dismiss a dialog

Building dialogs in canvas apps can be tricky, as a dialog visibility can be changed from inside the component (e.g. an ‘OK’ button) or outside it (show/hide the dialog). OnReset to the rescue!

You can use OnReset property to toggle the visibility of a component.  The key steps are: (a) exposing a variable as an output, (b) wiring it with the Visible property of the component instance, and (c) using OnReset to reset the variable. The full app is available for download here.

Here is how to build a simple dialog component. In the component master, configure:

• Dismiss button:

OnSelect = Set(visible_variable, false)

• The component’s OnReset:

 OnReset  = Set(visible_variable, true).

• Create a Boolean output property. In the advanced pane, type visible_variable as the property formula.

In app screen:

• Insert an instance of the dialog component.
• Add a button and configure:

OnSelect = Reset(Dialog_1)

• Configure Dialog_1 as:

Visible = Dialog_1.Dialog_1.CustomProperty1

Custom properties trigger OnReset when value changes

Besides resetting a component instance from the outside of the component, there is another method to trigger the OnReset from the inside. “Raise OnReset when value changes” is an option when creating a custom input property, and it allows the value changes of this property to trigger OnReset of the component. This method is designed to set and reset default value easily. Here is an example.

This is an example of reviewing order numbers and updating the numbers. (Download the example app including the component here.) The numeric up and down component is used to increase or decrease number of orders. When selecting the gallery on the left, the default number of numeric up and down component is reset to display the order number of selected tool. “Raise OnReset when value changes” made it possible to reset the default value when the input changes. Here is how:

1. Check “Raise OnReset when value changes” of the default input property
2. OnReset of the component is set to:

OnReset = Set(_numericValue,'Numeric up down'.DefaultValue)

And in the text input control:

Default = If(IsBlank(_numericValue), 'Numeric up down'.DefaultValue, _numericValue)

Being able to reset default value and set behavior for component is important to make components flexible in various scenarios. It was also one of the top questions and asks for components. Share your feedback with us and check out examples shared in the community component gallery. Happy building!

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This blog post attempts to provide a ready list of all the sessions for quick reference.

Additionally, a PowerApps canvas app version of this list is available in the Community Apps Gallery for easy viewing of the sessions and sharing it broadly with your colleagues.

Click the image below to download the canvas app and use the Browse Files option in the PowerApps Studio to upload this app in your tenant.

The shortcut for this blog for easy reference is https://aka.ms/pa/mbas2019

This blog was updated on 7/11/2019 and the hyperlinks were updated to point to respective sessions in the Microsoft Business Applications Summit Gallery.

• Keynote – 1 Session
• Real world stories – 7 Sessions
• PowerApps – 26 Sessions
• Microsoft Flow – 19 Sessions
• Common Data Service – 6 Sessions
• Data Integration – 4 Sessions
• Admin & Governance – 9 Sessions
• AI Builder – 2 Sessions
• Azure – 2 Sessions
• Power BI – 6 Sessions
• Dynamics 365 – 11 Sessions
• ISV Solutions – 4 Sessions
• Other Sessions – 2 Sessions

Total – 99 Sessions

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	Microsoft PowerApps: Building and extending applications Build & extend apps | Matt Barbour Learn about the capabilities Microsoft PowerApps has for the application developer. In this session we focus on the core extensibility areas; starting with an overview and demonstration…
	Microsoft PowerApps: Introducing PowerApps portal for external users PowerApps Portals | Dileep Singh, Sandeep Dhanrajani Learn how PowerApps customers can create websites over data stored in Common Data Service that can be accessed by external users with a wide variety of identities including personal acc…
	Microsoft PowerApps: Building custom components using PowerApps component framework PowerApps component framework | Hemant Gaur Build with Microsoft PowerApps! The PowerApps component framework (PCF) provides a powerful way to create reusable and unified controls across both model and canvas applications. Learn…
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	Microsoft PowerApps: The master class on building performant apps Performant Apps | Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi Your app is slow? See how we take an existing poorly performing app and apply various performance optimizations and tricks to drastically improve its performance and responsiveness.
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	Microsoft Flow: Automate the Common Data Service with Microsoft Flow Common Data Service | Stephen Siciliano, Karan Srivastava Modern flows are the successor to the classic Microsoft Dynamics 365 workflow engine. In this session we walk through common scenarios that classic workflow is used for and how those pa…
	Microsoft Flow and SharePoint: Tips and tricks from the masters SharePoint – Tips and tricks | Audrie Gordon, Chris McNulty Microsoft 365 provides a rich toolkit for empowering teamwork in your organization. Process automation with Microsoft Flow can be a game changer. Join us for a deep dive into best prac…
	Microsoft Excel: How I leveraged Excel, Microsoft Flow, Power Query, and Power BI to optimize business processes in operations and supply chain Excel, PowerQuery & Power BI | David Monroy All businesses are striving to make better decisions in a faster way. When coupled with quickly increasing volumes of data, and tools that don’t scale at the same pace, it is common to…
	Microsoft Flow: Embedding Microsoft Flow in your own application Embed Flow in your apps | Sunay Vaishnav See how to build Microsoft Flow directly into your SaaS application. Microsoft Flow can be used to provide native business process and workflow capabilities for any SaaS application. Jo…
	Microsoft Excel: Automate processes inside of Excel Excel | Ashvini Sharma You can now use Microsoft Flow to build automation inside of Excel. Learn how the Flow Excel add-on lets you author flows right in the context of a workbook and then select any amount o…
	How Microsoft Flow makes bots and cards easy for everyone Bots & cards | Audrie Gordon Learn how Microsoft Teams leverages Microsoft Flow so any user can easily create a bot that responds to messages. Anyone can now create a bot that does everything from simple messages t…
	How Microsoft Flow makes bots and cards easy for everyone (Repeat) Bots & cards | Audrie Gordon Learn how Microsoft Teams leverages Microsoft Flow so any user can easily create a bot that responds to messages. Anyone can now create a bot that does everything from simple messages t…
	Microsoft Flow: Conquer data performance challenges with Microsoft Flow as your query engine Data performance | Audrie Gordon Learn the secrets to retrieving data queries directly from Microsoft Flow into your PowerApps applications as part of OnStart and OnVisible screen loads. Master precise filtered data qu…
	Microsoft Flow: Approvals in 20 minutes Approvals | Scott Shearer In this demo rich session, learn how to create a simple Microsoft Flow approval. First, see how you can leverage Office 365 features to determine to whom an approval should be submitted…
	Microsoft Flow: Using Microsoft Flow to drive Dynamics 365 Marketing List Communications Dynamics 365 + Marketing List communications | Jerry Weinstock In this session, you will see a demonstration of several different Flows that a Marketing Specialist can use in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement to complement their other communication…
	Microsoft Flow: Building out Service Case Management Dynamics 365 + Service Case Management | Jerry Weinstock In this session, learn how to build out a fully functional case processing system using Microsoft Flow and Dynamics 365. This system will use these features, connectors and processes in…
	Design and create business workflows automatically using Microsoft Excel, Flow, and Visio Excel & Visio | Shashank Gandhi As business process owners, have you ever wanted to turn a complex business process diagram into an automated workflow seamlessly? With Microsoft Flow, business owners can already build…
	Design and create business workflows automatically using Microsoft Excel, Flow, and Visio (Repeat) Excel & Visio | Shashank Gandhi As business process owners, have you ever wanted to turn a complex business process diagram into an automated workflow seamlessly? With Microsoft Flow, business owners can already build…
	Microsoft Flow for SharePoint SharePoint | Scott Shearer Now’s the time to begin using Microsoft Flow for your SharePoint automation tasks. In this session, see how Flow compares to SharePoint Designer workflows. Learn how to use Flow for the…

Common Data Service

	Microsoft PowerApps: What’s new in the Common Data Service for Apps What’s new | Ryan Jones Understand and learn the latest capabilities and innovations in the Common Data Service for Apps. We discuss what’s important, Microsoft Dynamics customizers, and standalone PowerApps m…
	Microsoft PowerApps and Common Data Service: Heterogeneous storage in the Common Data Service Heterogenous Storage | Nathan Helgren, Andreas Muenzinger, Maya Dumesh Learn how to leverage the new storage capabilities of the Common Data Service to support a wide variety of new data types.
	Microsoft PowerApps and Common Data Service: Identity and sharing with the Common Data Service CDS & Identity | Paul Liew The Common Data Service integrates more deeply with Azure Active Directory than ever before! In this session, explore how you can leverage CDS and AAD to improve the security and compli…
	Microsoft PowerApps: Optimizing custom code and plugins in the Common Data Service Optimizing custom code & Plug-ins | Jim Daly Plugins are used to implement custom logic in the Common Data Service. In this session, we discuss how plugins work as well as common pitfalls to avoid.
	Common Data Service: Seamlessly enable CDS entities for analytics with out-of-the-box Azure Data Lake integration Azure Data Lake | Sabin Nair, Mudit Mittal Our vision is to empower our customers to gain comprehensive insights and drive business actions based on their data in the Common Data Service. Learn how Athena effectively builds a da…
	Microsoft PowerApps: Planning your enterprise deployment – Capacity Management Capacity management | Varun Dewan This will cover the details for how to plan and manage the environments & resources necessary for an enterprise deployment of PowerApps.

Data Integration

	Microsoft Power BI, Flow, and PowerApps: Working with data in the Power Platform Working with Data | Mahesh Prakriya, Sameer Chabungbam Data is critical for the success of every organization. The Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI, PowerApps and Flow) provides a suite of tools to measure, act and automate processes arou…
	Microsoft Power BI, Flow, and PowerApps: Connecting to data using the on-premises data gateway Data Gateway | Arthi Ramasubramanian Iyer, Naveen Sivaraj Hybrid data landscapes are common for our enterprise customers. The on-premises data gateway enables connecting to data sources “behind a firewall” from online services (like Power BI,…
	Microsoft Flow and PowerApps: Building data connectors Connectors | Sameer Chabungbam, Kelli Waiss In this session, learn all about building connectors for Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow. Connectors are essential to get you the data you want. This session provides an overview…
	Microsoft Flow and PowerApps: An open sourced connector development Connectors | Sameer Chabungbam A growing connector ecosystem plays an important part in the strategy of Microsoft PowerApps and Flow.  In this session, we will talk about this strategy – particularly focusing on open…

Admin & Governance

	Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow: Top 10 tips to securely rolling out Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow to your organization Secure, Monitor and Govern | Austin Laugesen, James Oleinik Get ahead of common issues with broader enterprise adoption of Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow. We cover the enterprise governance vision and roadmap; sharing the top tips to com…
	Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Dynamics 365: What’s new for PowerApps and Microsoft Dynamics 365 admins What’s new for Admins | James Oleinik As your company’s internal adoption of PowerApps, Microsoft Flow and the Common Data Service for Apps grows, so does your need to protect your company’s data, control access, and monito…
	Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow: Best practices for managing and automating Managing & Automating | James Oleinik, Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi, Evan Chaki New apps, flows, and custom connectors are built, shared, and used in your company every day. Join this session to learn how you can automate the administration and governance of all of…
	Microsoft PowerApps: Tried and tested techniques for establishing a Center of Excellence Center of Excellence | Saurabh Pant, Pratap Ladhani Learn how enterprise IT departments have established a Center of Excellence (CoE) to drive internal adoption of Microsoft PowerApps and handle governance for hundreds of production apps…
	Microsoft PowerApps: How to get the best support for PowerApps, Flow, and Dynamics 365 How to get best Support | Varun Dewan You’ve hit an issue building a canvas app, or a user in your org can no longer sign-in to their Dynamics 365 application – what do you do next? In this session we’ll explore the best pr…
	Microsoft PowerApps: Monitoring and supporting PowerApps at scale Monitoring & Support | Brandon Simons, Varun Dewan Come learn about recent enhancements that help administrators, makers, and developers ensure their PowerApps environments are running smoothly. Understand key tools that are available,…
	Microsoft PowerApps: Five must-have governance controls when using PowerApps in enterprise organizations 5 Governance controls | Alex Fagundes, Venkat Rao Did you know your organization’s data could be at risk, and may already have a data leak? Did you know that a savvy user can easily bypass database controls and access your confidential…
	Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Dynamics 365: Modernizing the way we update Dynamics 365, PowerApps, and CDS Modernizing updates | Manas Maheshwari We constantly improve Dynamics 365 and PowerApps to maximize functionality, availability, and performance. In this session, we will discuss how to plan for your solutions to leverage t…
	Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Dynamics 365: Best practices for setting up security and environments in the Power Platform Admin Center Set up security & environments for CDS | Nikitha Gajula Do you find yourself dealing with ongoing escalations from your business team around access, sign-in, and data quality issues? In this session targeted to central IT, department admins,…

AI Builder

	Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow: Introduction and Roadmap for AI Builder, the no-code AI experience of the Power Platform Vision & Roadmap | Gautam Thapar, Jamel Gafsi See what’s new and what’s coming next in the Power Platform and AI Builder.
	Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow: Learn how to create AI Builder models and use them across the Power Platform AI Builder models | Benoit Fabre, Christine Jefson Learn about the functionalities and best practices to achieve your digital transformation through the Power Platform and AI Builder. AI Builder provides AI templates (Binary Classificat…

Azure

	Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow: Leveraging Azure Integration Services from the Power Platform Azure Integration Services | Jon Fancey Microsoft Azure opens up a whole world of possibilities to the Power Platform with Azure Integration Services. In this session, understand how you can leverage the capabilities availabl…
	Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow: Building end-to-end Blockchain solutions Using Azure Blockchain Service Azure Blockchain Service | Marc Mercuri, Jason Anderson, Chris Segura In this session, learn how to bring together Azure Blockchain Service with PowerApps and Microsoft Flow to build an end-to-end blockchain solution. Discover how you can easily leverage…

Power BI

	Microsoft Power BI: Democratizing self-service data prep with dataflows Dataflows | Miguel Llopis, Ben Sack Preparing and defining ETL for insights is a significant challenge for businesses today — ingestion, cleansing, transformation, and enrichment are labor-intensive and time-consuming tas…
	Microsoft Power BI: Connect and transform data from hundreds of data sources using Power Query PowerQuery | Miguel Llopis, Mahesh Prakriya, Matt Masson Business users spend a significant amount of their time working on data preparation before the data is ready to be used. Power Query and M are Microsoft’s data connectivity and data pre…
	Microsoft Power BI: Using the Power platform to radically change your business Power BI + PowerApps + Flow | Adam Saxton, Patrick LeBlanc Follow us on a journey through the Power platform. This session uses business scenarios that span across Microsoft Flow and PowerApps, and then uses Microsoft Power BI to bring it all t…
	Customer stories with Atrium Health and JCI Customer Stories – Atrium Health & JCI | Beth Schwenzfeier Griffith, Bradley Allen, Adam Harper, Christopher Haas, Gurmanik Grover In this session, see the scorecard evolution of Atrium Health from Tableau to Microsoft Power BI, with a wide range of applications from physicians scorecard to transplant and opioid pr…
	Microsoft Flow and Power BI: Build a real-time dashboard in 20 minutes Flow + Real time dashboard | Will Thompson Want to get started using real-time data with Microsoft Power BI? Learn how Microsoft Flow and Power BI can be used together to push data captured from a form into a real-time dashboard…
	Microsoft Power BI: Cash flow in Power BI and PowerApps Cash flow with PowerApps | Belinda Allen, MARIANO GOMEZ One of the first things we all learn in Business 101 is that cash is needed to operate a business. We also learn that being profitable does not mean you have cash in the bank. Have you…

Dynamics 365

	Implementation Best Practices for Dynamics 365: Making the move to modern Unified Interface Move to UCI | Nikita Polyakov Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement customers will need to transition from use of Classic UI to Unified Interface and we want customers to find that transition as seamless and rich as it c…
	Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Talent: Extending the solution Extending Talent | Harsh Chandra Match the uniqueness of your people and company with a talent solution that can flex to match. Join us to learn how Dynamics 365 for Talent can extend from OOTB best-practice capabiliti…
	Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Services Automation (PSA): New Project Service and PSA experience Project Service Automation | Gurkan Salk, Russel Hercules Join this session to get a glimpse of the enhanced project management capabilities coming to Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Project Service Automation through seamless integration of the ne…
	Microsoft Forms Pro: Build a more engaged and data-driven culture with surveys from Forms Pro Forms Pro | Welly Lee, stephanie whitaker Come learn about Forms Pro and see how to integrate your survey data with your existing data and drive deeper engagement with this new survey tool. During this session we offer a live d…
	Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations and Common Data Service Dynamics 365 F&O + CDS | Manali Dongre, Rama Krishnamoorthy During this session, learn the approach being taken for how Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations will integrate with CDS. Learn how you can leverage this data for your Dyna…
	Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations: How Dual Write enables F&O customers to natively get data into CDS Dynamics 365 F&O + Dual-write | Sabin Nair, Mudit Mittal Learn how Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations customers can use Dual Write to seamlessly connect and natively get their data in Common Data Service. With a few clicks, cus…
	Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations: Workflow to Flow Dynamics 365 F&O + Flow | Chris Garty This fast-paced session walks you through updates being planned for workflow and how to you can leverage Microsoft Flow for your business processes.
	Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations: Business Events framework Dynamics 365 F&O + Business Events | SUNIL GARG, Chris Garty Join this session to learn about Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Business Events framework. We provide the roadmap for Business Events, Workflow Business Events, and D…
	Microsoft Dynamics 365: Automating the enterprise with Dynamics 365, Microsoft Flow, and the InRule Decision Platform InRule Decision Platform | Mark Lonsway Looking to make the most of your Microsoft Dynamics 365 investment? Empowering Dynamics apps with InRule’s Decision Management platform alleviates the need for complex plug-ins and Java…
	Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: Building connect apps Business Central | Hunter Feltman Explore how to use exposed APIs to connect to a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant from any programming language/environment. Learn how to replicate data to Common Data Stor…
	Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: A unified solution Business Central | Errol Schoenfish Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a unified solution with many other Microsoft services. Come to this session to better understand the unification points and how to get started…

ISV Solutions

	Microsoft PowerApps: Accelerate your journey for building and managing ISV solutions on the Power Platform ISV Solutions | Omar Choudhry, Julie Strauss Making ISVs more effective and enabling app developers to bring high quality solutions to market faster are key priorities for us! Join this session to learn about all the new investmen…
	Microsoft PowerApps and Power BI: The future of Business Apps through Industry Accelerators using the Power Platform Banking & Automotive Solutions | Smith Codio, James Galvin, Steven Guggenheimer Demands to create impactful business apps continues to increase faster than resources become available and managing data, creating apps and getting them to where your users are is alway…
	Microsoft Dynamics 365 Common Data Model and Accelerator: Industry momentum Nonprofit Solutions | Erik Arnold, Steven Guggenheimer Microsoft’s commitment to open source computing is at the core of our approach to common data models and accelerators that drive out of the box functionality through sample apps, data s…
	Microsoft PowerApps and Power BI: Driving global impact through industry Accelerators CDM for Nonprofits | Erik Arnold, Daniel Lammot How can technology be used to drive global good and how is a Dynamics 365 Accelerator at the core of Microsoft’s strategy? Join Erik Arnold, Chief Technology Offer Microsoft Tech for So…

Other Sessions

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	Microsoft PowerApps: Streamline business processes using SharePoint with PowerApps Custom Views and Microsoft Flow SharePoint | Christina Wheeler PowerApps is a very powerful Software as a service (SaaS) tool used to build powerful data-driven business applications using a WYSIWYG drag and drop designer and Excel-like formulas. I…
	Accelerate business transactions, using AI-powered e-signature and document technologies from Adobe integrated into Microsoft Dynamics, Flow and PowerApps Adobe Sign, Acrobat & Sensei | Garrett Schwartz Find out how Adobe is using Microsoft and Adobe technologies to automate enrollment, on-boarding and contracting processes across Sales, human resources, and Procurement. Adobe’s techno…

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The Power Platform User Groups (Power BI, PowerApps, and Flow) are excited to announce that they have added another stop to the Power Platform World Tour – They are headed to beautiful Vienna, Austria!

We have several other stops planned in 2019 such as:

• London
• Madrid
• Copenhagen
• Sao Paulo
• Mexico City
• Vienna 

Where would you like to see us go next? Submit your request here and we’ll do our best to get it added to the list of World Tour Stops.

What can you expect at Power Platform World Tour?

The theme of this year’s Power Platform World Tour is pursuing greatness through innovation. We’ll be focusing on how the Power Platform applications can push the envelope on your business needs. Industry experts will be showing you the power and agility of Power BI, PowerApps and Microsoft Flow through robust learning sessions, demos and Q&A opportunities.

• Power BI – make sense of your data, produce beautiful reports, and uncover hidden insights for your business.
  • PowerApps – listen in as peers talk through how they have created apps that extend and mobilize their business using the no code PowerApps option.
  • Flow – find out how to automate processes, making your business more efficient.

All brought to you by your local Power Platform User Groups, this event series gives you the unique opportunity to come hear from and learn from your peers, Microsoft and industry experts. Step away from your desk to explore the latest business challenges, discover best practices for solutions across various industries, and see the innovative world of technology in action.

This event wouldn’t be a success without the vast network of individuals and peer-to-peer knowledge being shared. Grow your experience and expand your network of connections by registering for an upcoming  Power Platform World Tour Event! Working together, we can ensure that we produce tangible tools for growth!

Interested in speaking or have an idea that you would like to see featured in one of the World Tour stops?  Call for proposals is currently open to the community for several cities:

Copenhagen – September 11 -12 – Call for Proposals

São Paulo – October 3- 4 – Call for Proposals

Mexico City- October 23 -24 – Call for Proposals

Vienna – October 29 -30 – Call for Proposals

Madrid – November 13 -14 – Call for Proposals

Additional cities coming soon! Keep updated on the latest locations by joining the mailing list here.

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Keynotes & General Session
	Vision Keynote Join us to kick off Microsoft Ignite & Microsoft Envision at the Vision Keynote, where Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella takes the stage and highlights the need of Tech Intensity and outline Microsoft’s company strategy to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
	Powering digital transformation with business applications: Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power BI, PowerApps, and Microsoft Flow Businesses need software driven by data and powered by AI and cognitive services to help them fundamentally reimagine how they engage customers, empower employees, transform operations, and reimagine products and services. Join James Phillips and Alysa Taylor to hear how intelligent business applications from Microsoft work together seamlessly on a connected data platform threaded with intelligence and leverage the power of the complete Microsoft cloud. Be the first to see the October 2018 release of Dynamics 365 and the Power platform, including the use of AI, mixed reality, security, and compliance. Learn how to integrate new technology with existing systems to transform customer experiences with the flexibility to rapidly innovate.
	Microsoft PowerApps, Power BI, and Flow: Power platform vision and roadmap Turn insight into action when you build business apps with PowerApps, Microsoft Power BI, and Microsoft Flow. This session gives you an overview of the power platform and how you can empower everyone to build apps that transform your business. We cover what we have in market today along with our roadmap and vision for the future.
PowerApps Related Sessions
	PowerApps: The top 10 new features that will help you build apps with ease The way we build apps is fundamentally changing and PowerApps is leading the way. Hear from real customers including LEGO about how they are dramatically accelerating the way they build apps on a unified platform across Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and standalone apps. Be the first to check out the top 10 latest capabilities that will help you go even faster pulling in your data, wherever it lives, leveraging over 200 connectors to cloud services, on-premises data, or even your custom-built connectors. The Common Data Service for Apps will make it even easier to bring it all together in a standard format through the extensible Common Data Model. All with the enterprise-grade security and manageability of PowerApps.
	PowerApps: Take your skills to the next level Take your PowerApps capabilities to the next level with the latest in server-side logic on the Common Data Service for Apps, advanced expressions in canvas apps, using Flow to return values to apps, and more. Get inspired by this tour-de-force of hands-on demos and handy tips you can use to build business apps that will wow your users.
	Common Data Service for Apps: Building enterprise-ready apps with ease This session will dive deep into the concepts needed to build applications on Common Data Service for Apps. Whether you leverage it for model-driven PowerApps solutions or in your custom built apps, we cover all the fundamentals like entity modelling, business rules, business processes, and include an introduction to extensibility options like Plugins, Virtual Entities, and more.
	PowerApps: Extending custom code with custom Azure Functions Microsoft PowerApps provides a robust set of capabilities to build your business applications. However, if you reach the limits of in-box capabilities, what do you do next? ?In this session, we explore how to extend PowerApps with custom code using Azure Functions.
	PowerApps: Build a full business?app in 10 minutes Join this fast-paced overview and hear how to use Microsoft PowerApps and the Common Data Service for Apps to create rich and comprehensive apps, leveraging a custom data model, forms, and tools to guide users through your business processes.
Microsoft Flow Related Sessions
	Microsoft Flow: Modernizing SharePoint Designer workflows with Microsoft Flow and approvals This session will take a deep dive into how you can modernize and enhance SharePoint Designer workflows with Microsoft Flow and approvals. We?ll take an up-close look at Microsoft Flow capabilities and how they map to SharePoint workflows, showcase real-life customer scenarios on Microsoft Flow, and discuss where the Flow + SharePoint integration is headed.
	Microsoft Flow: Digitally transform your business Microsoft is modernizing business processes across productivity and business applications ? and now it’s easier for every business to transform the way they work. Microsoft Flow is Microsoft?s workflow and business process management platform. It is the connective glue that helps end-users and developers alike for digital transformation, no matter what application they are using. In this session we cover this vision in detail, both in terms of what is available today, and a roadmap of what is coming in the future.
	Microsoft Flow and PowerApps: Advanced workflow and business process management Get a deep look into advanced techniques and expressions used to build complex and robust workflows with Microsoft Flow.?This intermediate session will cover a number of topics such as error handling, working with complex types and lists, and looping. Finally, discover how you can take it up to Azure Logic Apps when it makes sense.
	Design and automate business workflows using Excel, Microsoft Flow, and Visio Microsoft Visio, the leading diagramming application, enables enterprises to capture their business processes using its rich modelling capabilities. Create process diagrams from data or draw them on canvas and with a single click export the workflow to Microsoft Flow and automate it. With Visio?s sharing and commenting capabilities, collaborate with multiple stakeholders and arrive at a complete workflow in little time.
	Microsoft Flow: Build a workflow in 10 minutes See how we build a workflow in 10 minutes and take advantage of key capabilities of Microsoft Flow, including virtual buttons,?integration with Azure Cognitive Services, and more. Learn how you can build a solution in minutes that wouldn?t have been possible just a few years ago.
Sessions common to both PowerApps and Microsoft Flow
	PowerApps and Microsoft Flow: Best Practices for managing these two applications As your company’s adoption of PowerApps, Microsoft Flow and Common Data Service for Apps grows, so does your need?to protect your company’s data, control access and monitor usage. In this presentation targeted at central IT, departmental and team admins, learn best practices for managing PowerApps and Microsoft Flow in your organization.?Also discover our roadmap for administrative capabilities.
	Microsoft Flow and PowerApps: How pros extend the Power platform with custom logic, connectors, controls, and more PowerApps and Microsoft Flow make it possible to quickly customize Microsoft Office 365, Dynamics 365, and standalone apps without writing code ? but that doesn?t mean you?re limited to point and click. Learn how to go beyond the tooling to solve more sophisticated scenarios and empower citizen developers at every step of app development: build custom connectors to integrate directly with your own services; extend the server-side logic of the Common Data Service with code plugins, web hooks, and more; extend the user experience of model-driven apps with web resources and the new PowerApps Control Framework.
	Microsoft Power BI, Flow, and PowerApps: Connecting to data using the on-premises data gateway The on-premises data gateway enables hybrid connectivity to on-premises data sources from a wide range of Microsoft services, including Power BI, PowerApps, Logic Apps, Microsoft Flow, Azure Analysis Services and Power Query Online. In this session we will provide an overview of the on-premises data gateway and tips and tricks for how to effectively use, troubleshoot and manage your gateways. We will also show demos of recently released Gateway capabilities as well as a sneak preview of features coming over the next few months.
	Office 365 business apps (SharePoint, PowerApps, Flow, forms): What’s new and what’s coming No-code and low-code applications have been essential tools in Microsoft SharePoint for a long time, but we?ve added many other new tools to your palette. We review the roadmap and best practices in our platform for creating business apps solutions (lists, Microsoft PowerApps, forms, Microsoft Flow). We also discuss the patterns to help transform customer solutions that still remain on premises and/or in legacy tool sets like InfoPath, SharePoint Designer or Access web apps.
	Microsoft Common Data Model (CDM): An introductory session Join this session to learn about the Common Data Model (CDM). The CDM is an open-sourced definition of standard entities that represent commonly used concepts and activities across a variety of business and application domains. It provides unified data and semantics over a variety of entities spanning multiple industries including sales, service, and more. Data loaded into the common model can benefit from applications built on top of the platform without additional customization, including out-of-box insights and intelligent action. If needed, the CDM can be extended by partners and customers, ensuring custom entities and concepts can live and benefit alongside the standard schema. Join us for this intermediate, introductory session on the CDM to learn how.
	Microsoft Flow and PowerApps: Microsoft Power platform app in a day This day has it all, with two tracks running in parallel; from introductory to intermediate app building. The introductory track is an all-day hands-on lab that walks through: building a canvas-based PowerApp and a model-based PowerApp; creating and writing to a Common Data Service entity; and building a Microsoft Flow for approvals. In the intermediate/advanced track, a series of challenges are handed out that you can solve at your own pace. Proctors and product team experts guide the lab and are available to provide help.
Sessions from other teams at Microsoft
	No coding required: Build a mobile-ready news service with Microsoft PowerApps In this fast-paced session, we show you how our IT experts (and citizen developers too) built a simple, accessible, mobile-first news service that relays news, events, and important updates in a timely, streamlined manner to our worldwide field sellers. The news mobile app comes equipped with calendar integration, in-app feedback capability, and a search function too. This example showcases the ease and power of Microsoft PowerApps and how it allows for anyone?even those without coding experience?to create useful, impactful mobile apps easily.
	New ways to create ‘no code’ solutions with SharePoint This is a session for SharePoint ?makers?. We?ll walk through the creation process of making one full-fledged solution using SharePoint. This will be a deep dive, including tips and tricks for building composite applications and solutions based on SharePoint?s numerous no-code extensibility mechanisms and will include Flows, PowerApps, WebParts, list-view row formatters and more.
	Using Microsoft Flow to simplify employee collaboration at Microsoft Learn how Microsoft Core Services Engineering & Operations (CSEO)?the experts who run the critical products and services that power Microsoft?are using Microsoft Flow to automate daily employee meeting and calendar management tasks at Microsoft.
	Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Talent: Building your end-to-end experience by extending your solution Match the uniqueness of your people and company with a talent solution that can flex to fit. Join us to learn how Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Talent can extend from OOTB best-practice capabilities, to a tailored fit using low-code custom built applications with PowerApps and the Common Data Service.
PowerApps Sessions from the community and MVPs
	PowerApps: Building PowerApps from scratch? Use Patch! Microsoft PowerApps does provide the out-of-box flexibility to build your own View and Edit forms which directly connect to your SharePoint list. While most of the time using the existing form design can be sufficient, however, sometimes you have the need to customize the form design from scratch. Thanks to the Patch function you can do just that. This session walks you through several examples of how a custom form can be built and, based on the controls selected, which formula is used to save the data back to SharePoint.
	Best practices for using logic in your PowerApps Has your organization started embracing Microsoft PowerApps as the new standard for creating custom business forms and apps? PowerApps provides an easy interface that allows forms and apps to be customized for your requirements. When a solution demands advanced functionality, formulas can be utilized to conditionally hide or show fields, change colors, and perform a myriad of other dynamic tasks. In this session, learn how to get the most out of PowerApps, by mastering controls like Forms, Data Cards, and Galleries. By learning the properties, functions, and interactions of these controls, you will gain an understanding of the best way to customize your forms and apps to meet your business needs.
	Improve Firstline workforce collaboration with Office 365 Firstline workers?colleagues in manufacturing, retail, hospitality, and construction that are often mobile and first to engage with your customers?are critically important to an organization?s success. However, many of these employees can feel disconnected, underinformed, and disengaged from the rest of the company. Additionally, their productivity can be hampered by manually intensive and outdated tools from paper punch cards for clocking in to phone trees for trading shifts. In this interactive session, learn how you can deliver digital transformation solutions to your Firstline workforce by leveraging Office 365 technologies like Yammer, Microsoft Teams, Staffhub, and PowerApps.
	Real-world digital transformation case study: University of Oulu University of Oulu in Finland is creating innovation for the future, not only through science and study, but also by renewing its own internal processes. To start the digital transformation, they decided to take a few sample processes such as salary bonus requests, student presence tracking and student counseling services and try out how these processes can be transformed into modern digital counterparts using Microsoft Flow and PowerApps. Learn what went well, what didn?t work, the pitfalls to avoid and best practices to follow in order to renew processes for the modern workplace. Learn the limits and boundaries of Microsoft Flow and PowerApps and be prepared to excel in the digital transformation ahead.
	Creating iOT solutions with Microsoft Azure and PowerApps In this session we show how to use Azure to intake, process, analyze and store iOT data then visualize it in a PowerApp. Learn how to seamlessly combine the technologies to provide insights into data instantly.
	Canvas- vs. model-driven PowerApps When building your PowerApp, you have the choice of building a canvas app or a model-driven app. In this session, we cover rules of thumb to use when deciding between model-driven or canvas apps, when you should use each, and how they can work together.
	Step aside InfoPath Designer, here comes PowerApps Still not sure if Microsoft PowerApps and Flow are suitable successors for InfoPath Designer and SharePoint Designer? Then attend this session to see how an advanced InfoPath Designer form and SharePoint Designer workflow has not only been rebuilt but enhanced using PowerApps and Flow. In addition, see how PowerApps has made it easier than ever to leverage data from other platforms.
	Moving from InfoPath to PowerApps: Introduction to terminology For 13 years, InfoPath has been Microsoft’s official method of creating business forms in SharePoint. Now that InfoPath has been phased out, PowerApps is the new way of creating no-code forms. In this session, Laura Rogers introduces how to create PowerApps, and specifically how to translate your common InfoPath form terminology into the new way in PowerApps.
	Be a no-code rock star: Do your SharePoint web parts and Microsoft Teams tabs with PowerApps Through demos, this session gives you a solid understanding of how to build SharePoint web parts and Microsoft Teams tabs to meet your organization’s various needs. Learn the easy steps to design your Microsoft PowerApps web part or tab, or mobile application, to follow company branding guidelines. Build a nice feedback app that works on mobile, in SharePoint as a web part, or in Teams as a tab. After the session you’ll be in a much better position to answer questions like ?Can this-and-this be done with PowerApps?? or ?We need an Idea Vault web part to our SharePoint intranet front page. Is it going to be expensive?? Even if you are familiar with PowerApps, you’ll learn great tips you can go and utilize after the session.
Microsoft Flow Sessions from the community and MVPs
	Level up the day-to-day business with Microsoft Flow Microsoft Flow is a service for automating workflow across the growing number of apps and SaaS services business users rely on that connect to data and work cross platform, and it?s sitting at the heart of the business process transformation in the modern workplace. Microsoft is investing enormously into Flow, making it the first inline tool for digital transformation and modernizing workplaces. Flow now has seamless integration and connectivity with the other stack of tools and services, whether they are from Microsoft or not, making it a vital tool for customizing and digitizing your modern workplace. Explore modern business applications using Microsoft Flow along with practical demos, the latest announcements, and updates.
	Microsoft Flow: Energize your application developments by using Microsoft Flow Microsoft Flow can be seen as a tool for power users but it can also be used by developers. This session illustrates how Flow is becoming an essential tool for developers by allowing them to shorten their development lifecycle and how they can extend existing applications in order to leverage tons of new features that Flow provides out of the box. See how to extend Flow by using the Microsoft Graph and by calling Azure functions, by creating custom connectors, how to implement advanced Flow approvals from your application, JSON and Flow, the new Common Data Services 2.0 integration, how to optimize your flow performance, how to make services flow and much more. Several patterns are also described.
	Microsoft Azure Logic Apps vs. Microsoft Flow: When, how, and where Logic Apps is an Azure cloud-based service that enables us to develop and deliver integration solutions with ease. It also helps us build, schedule, and automate processes as workflows so we can integrate apps, data, systems, and services across enterprises or organizations. However, Microsoft Flow is a SaaS offering, for automating workflows across the growing number of applications and SaaS services that business users rely on. We will help you chose the right product given that Flow was built using Logic Apps itself. We will illustrate the similarities between Logic Apps and Flow, and define the differences on the Whens, Hows and Wheres.
	Quick wins are the new currency in Microsoft 365 By focusing on solving small problems that affect all users, you will not only save time and money, but more importantly, change negative users into positive evangelists. In this session Tracy and Loryan provide examples on how to use Microsoft Flow together with Teams, Planner, OneNote, OneDrive, SharePoint, Forms, Kaizala, and Outlook to truly realize business value. Scenarios covered include: ? Bringing communication methods together ? Managing your contacts, leads, and ideas ? Automating mundane tasks to save lots of time Once you understand how all the apps and services can work together to help you reach your full potential, you will wonder how you ever managed before.
Other Sessions from the community and MVPs
	New out-of-box approvals in SharePoint Do your business users need a way to easily run approval processes for documents or forms in SharePoint? Microsoft Flow presents a great opportunity to modernize and increase the capabilities of your automated business processes. The requirements of your workflows may range from simple to complex, and they all vary when it comes to flexibility and functionality. In this session, learn the capabilities of Microsoft Flow and how to successfully build your next process automation in SharePoint. Learn how to transition from workflows with SharePoint 2010 out-of-box workflows or SharePoint Designer task actions, to the new way with Microsoft Flow.
	From start to finish: How to create your modern SharePoint site provisioning solution Creating modern SharePoint sites only takes a second but what if you want to customize or control that process? It can be a challenge to keep up with all the sites in an organization and can affect support and governance of a SharePoint environment. In this session, learn how to use Microsoft?s latest tools such as Site Designs, Site Scripts, PnP Site Provisioning, PowerApps and Flow to create a full site provisioning system with custom templates, custom branding, and easy approval before creation!
	Modern business apps: There are none without Microsoft SharePoint, PowerApps and Flow Digital transformation is a necessity rather than a facility, and it’s a result of changing the culture of work by making things easier and simpler. Office 365, including SharePoint Online provides digital tools that enable people in organizations to do their best work easily and efficiently, empowering teamwork and collaboration! Join Ahmad Najjar to see how you can leverage Microsoft Flow and PowerApps with powerful capabilities in SharePoint Online to level up your day-to-day work. Learn about creating automated workflows between a variety of Office 365 apps and services to get notifications, collect data, approvals, and more!
	Enhancing SharePoint content management using Microsoft Flow The SharePoint Document ID service is great for adding a unique, trackable references to content. Engineers, information architects, knowledge managers, and process authors love metadata and often have a requirement for a specific structured naming convention. This session demonstrates how Microsoft Flow can be used to create an automatic document numbering system that applies a structured convention. In the session, learn how to combine managed metadata with user generated terms using switch cases, expressions and actions. Learn how to deal with trigger idiosyncrasies and simple error handling. You might not need an automatic numbering service but the principles you learn can be applied in other scenarios.
	Creating custom connectors for Microsoft Graph and using them in PowerApps and Flows In this session we show how existing Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow connectors use the Microsoft Graph and how to create your own. Learn how to make your own custom connector to access the Microsoft Graph from PowerApps and Flows.

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Pre-Day Workshop content – Microsoft Flow and PowerApps: Microsoft Power platform app in a day

Earlier this weekend, on 23rd Sept 2018, we ran a Pre-Day Power platform workshop at the Ignite event in Orlando. During this workshop, we provided attendees with an à la carte menu of options to choose from a range of introductory to intermediate labs and challenges. The workshop was attended by more than 150 attendees and we got a lot of encouraging feedback from the attendees:

• “I was skeptical of having multiple ‘levels’  in the same session, but it worked out very well. Thanks!”
• “opened up a huge world of possibilities.”
• “This session was best of show so far for me. I learned a ton of info.”

We want to share the content out broadly and encourage everyone to reuse the content from the workshop for conducting workshops and trainings internally within your organization, community & user groups.

Download Link: https://aka.ms/PowerPlatformChallenges

If you haven’t done the App-in-a-Day lab yet, we recommend you to start with it first, which has been updated just before the Ignite event and an additional Power BI module has been added.

Power Platform Labs and Challenges

The Labs and Challenges are packaged in a PowerApp (canvas app) that contains links to several Labs and Challenges to learn more about the Power Platform, which includes PowerApps, Power BI, Microsoft Flow & Common Data Service for Apps.

There are two types of contents linked from in the app, Labs & Challenges.

Labs: Each Lab contains step-by-step guidance with screenshots for users to follow along

Challenges: Each challenge describes a specific task to complete or problem to solve. Users won’t be provided detailed instructions for how to solve the problem, however most challenges have Solution Hints and / or links to important blogs, documentation articles or videos.

The content is structured in the following 6 scenarios:

Hands-on-Labs

• App in a Day Lab
• Dashboard in a Day Lab
• Flow in a Day Lab

Challenges

• Conference App Challenge
• Photo App Challenge
• SharePoint Challenges

Installing Instructions

Task 1: Download the Lab Files – https://aka.ms/PowerPlatformChallenges

1. Save a local copy of the lab contents: Download the ChallengesApp.zip file for the lab from https://aka.ms/PowerPlatformChallenges. Save it to a local folder, such as C:\PowerPlatformChallenges. Extract the ZIP package. This package contains a PowerApp file (MSAPP file), an Excel file – ChallengesAppData.xlsx (which contains the static data used in this app) & soft copy of this document.
   Note: The data required for the app is already included in the app, you might need to use the ChallengesAppData.xlsx only to customize the labs & challenges that you want to share with your audience.

Task 2: Sign-in to PowerApps

1. Confirm that you are licensed to use PowerApps: Go to https://web.powerapps.com and sign-in with your business or school account. This is the same as your Office 365 or Dynamics 365 login.

Task 3: Open the PowerApps app

1. Open PowerApps Studio: When logged in on https://web.powerapps.com, click on Apps. Then click on Create an app. PowerApps Studio (https://create.powerapps.com) will open up in a new Tab. See screenshot below.

1. Open PowerApps : Click on Open on the left navigation. Then click on Browse. Select the Challenges App.msapp file from the folder where you unzipped the contents of the zip file.

Content – Hands-on-Labs

App in a Day Lab

The App in a Day Lab is a beginner level lab for you to get hands on experience with Microsoft Business Application Platform technologies – PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, Power BI and Common Data Service for Apps. The lab includes step-by-step instructions for someone new to these technologies to build a device ordering solution in less than a day. If you haven’t done the App-in-a-Day lab yet, we recommend you to start with it first, which has been updated just before the Ignite event and an additional Power BI module has been added.

Technologies covered:

• PowerApps: A software as a service application platform that enables power users in line of business roles to easily build and deploy custom business apps. There are dedicated modules to both canvas and Model-driven apps.
• Common Data Service (CDS): Make it easier to bring your data together and quickly create powerful apps using a compliant and scalable data service and app platform that’s integrated into PowerApps.
• Microsoft Flow: A business service for line of business specialists and IT pros to build automated workflows intuitively.
• Power BI (new): Self-service business intelligence capabilities, where end users can create reports and dashboards by themselves, without having to depend on information technology staff or database administrators.

Make sure to follow all the pre-requisite steps listed in Module 0 before starting the labs.

Additional Challenges in the App in a Day Lab scenario

In addition to the 5 modules for App in a Day, this scenario also contains a PowerApps Training app which use a PowerApps canvas app to train on various PowerApps canvas apps concepts and several other challenges that are related to the Device Ordering App. Feel free to check them out.

Dashboard in a Day Lab

The Dashboard in a Day Lab is a beginner level lab for you to get hands on experience with Power BI. The lab has two main sections:

• Power BI Desktop: This section highlights the features available in Power BI Desktop and walks the user through the process of bringing in data from the data source, modeling and creating visualizations.
• Power BI Service: This section highlights the features available in Power BI Service including the ability to publish the Power BI Desktop model to the web, creating and sharing dashboard and Power Q & A.

Flow in a Day Lab

The Flow in a Day Lab is a beginner level lab for you to get hands on experience with Microsoft Flow. The lab has 6 Labs & 5 Hackathon themes. The Labs contain step-by-step guidance for 6 different scenarios and the themes are like challenges which contain links to blogs or videos – but are not detailed out like the labs.

• Lab 1. Building a time tracking flow
• Lab 2. Approvals (Part 1) – Travel Approval
• Lab 3. Flow Notifications and Conditions
• Lab 4. Flow control, variables, expressions
• Lab 5. Dynamically add a person’s manager as an approver (Approval Part 2)
• Lab 6. Task overdue

Additional Challenges in the Flow in a Day Lab scenario

In addition to the 5 modules for App in a Day, this scenario also contains several other Flow challenges. Feel free to check them out.

Content-Challenges

SharePoint Challenges

This scenario contains 10 challenges for SharePoint & Microsoft Flow & 5 challenges for SharePoint & PowerApps, which includes integration scenarios between PowerApps, Microsoft Flow & SharePoint.

Photo App Challenge

The Photo app challenge revolves around a fictitious Photo Central app.

The Scenario The marketing managers at Contoso Inc. want a single location to manage image assets for marketing campaigns. They’ve created an app called “Photo Central” to store these images that can be uploaded and managed by members of the marketing team.

Conference App Challenge

The Conference app challenge revolves creating a Conference app to be used by employees for attending an internal conference. All the data for the app is to be stored in Common Data Service. Each of the challenge in the scenario involves the various steps that have to be done for building the app.

Content – Slide decks

The zip file also contains a “PowerPlatformPreDaySlides.zip” file containing a couple of slide decks that were presented during the Pre-Day Workshop. You may choose to reuse them for any internal workshops or trainings that you conduct.

• PRE26_PowerPlatform_AppInADay.pptx : Presentation to walk through the agenda of the day and introduce the various lab and challenges options.

• Power Platform Intro – Ignite 2018 Pre-Day.pptx: An introduction to the technologies that constitutes the Power Platform – PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, Power BI

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There were also several amazing customer sessions including the session by London Heathrow Airport which was showcased in the Inspire 2018 corenote by Satya. Also available now are the October 2018 release notes, which details hundreds of new capabilities and features across all our Dynamics 365 applications and the Power Platform, which includes PowerApps, Microsoft Flow & Power BI.

The shortcut for this blog for easy reference is https://aka.ms/pa/mbas2018.

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We have many more sessions lined up for you at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit from July 22-24 in Seattle. So register today, if you haven’t registered already.

The shortcut for this blog is https://aka.ms/pa/build2018. There is also a playlist: Building with PowerApps and Microsoft Flow, if you prefer to view these on the Microsoft Build Live site.

Navigate quickly to individual sessions below:

• PowerApps related sessions
• Advanced app building with PowerApps expressions and rules
• PowerApps + Microsoft Graph
• Real-World Solutions with PowerApps: Performance and optimization tips when building apps
• Real-World Solutions with PowerApps: Tips & tricks to manage your app complexity
• Real-World Solutions with PowerApps: Building Composite Controls
• Common Data Service for Apps related sessions
• Deep dive into building apps on Common Data Service for Apps
• Extending PowerApps and the Common Data Service for Apps with custom controls and server side logic
• Distribute your apps to millions of users via AppSource
• Microsoft Flow related sessions
• Automating business processes and approvals with Microsoft Flow
• Build a workflow in 10 minutes
• PowerApps & Microsoft Flow related sessions
• Build and extend applications for Office 365 with PowerApps and Flow
• Developing custom connectors for Microsoft Flow and PowerApps
• PowerApps ALM via Microsoft Flow & PowerShell
• Accelerate your SaaS App development using the power of the Business Application Platform

PowerApps related sessions

Advanced app building with PowerApps expressions and rules

Join us to learn how you can leverage advanced expressions and new enhancements for PowerApps canvas based apps that improve readability of expressions, enable deep customization and provide tools to build apps more quickly.

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PowerApps + Microsoft Graph

Learn how to quickly build custom business apps leveraging Microsoft Graph inside the PowerApps studio.

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Real-World Solutions with PowerApps: Performance and optimization tips when building apps

Learn approaches and best practices from real apps built with PowerApps. In this session we will go over data loading patterns, asset optimizations, formula optimizations, and more.

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Real-World Solutions with PowerApps: Tips & tricks to manage your app complexity

Learn approaches and best practices from real apps built with PowerApps. We’ll look into a set of best practices to ensure your app is maintainable, extensible and easy to debug.

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Real-World Solutions with PowerApps: Building Composite Controls

Learn approaches and best practices from real apps built with PowerApps. In this session we will review how to build composite controls for PowerApps, such as Accordion, Flyout menu, and Tab control, using basic built-in controls.

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Common Data Service for Apps related sessions

Deep dive into building apps on Common Data Service for Apps

In this session, we’ll deep dive into the concepts needed to build applications on CDS for Apps, whether you leverage it PowerApps or in your custom built solutions. We’ll cover all the fundamentals like entity modelling, business rules, business processes, and include an introduction to extensibility options like Plugins, Virtual Entities, and more.

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Extending PowerApps and the Common Data Service for Apps with custom controls and server side logic

Professional developer extensibility is a key capability to the Business Application Platform. We’ll focus on enriching model-driven PowerApps solutions with server-side code and custom controls on the Common Data Service for Apps. We’ll utilize the developer toolkit and write code for native plugin development, use of functions and logic apps, Web API, Administration API, and the Virtual Entity subsystem.

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Distribute your apps to millions of users via AppSource

Learn how to package apps and custom extensions for PowerApps and distribute them via AppSource within your organization or to over 120M monthly active users across Office 365 and Dynamics 365. Ready your custom solutions for everyone to leverage.

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Microsoft Flow related sessions

Automating business processes and approvals with Microsoft Flow

Use Microsoft Flow to easily add business process automation and approval processes to your solutions. You’ll learn to build Flows with a few simple clicks and extend your learnings to more advanced techniques and expressions used to build complex workflows. Finally discover how you can take it up to Azure Logic Apps when it makes sense.

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Build a workflow in 10 minutes

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PowerApps & Microsoft Flow related sessions

Build and extend applications for Office 365 with PowerApps and Flow

Come discover the capabilities of PowerApps and Flow as the unified high productivity application development and workflow platform across Office 365 and Dynamics 365. As the successor to InfoPath and Access Web Apps, PowerApps enables users to build both simple forms to advanced, feature-rich apps, while Flow as the successor to SharePoint Designer Workflow, enables users to build automated workflows for a range of scenarios from notifications to approvals. In this session, we’ll cover integrations with SharePoint, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Graph, Excel, and more. Start extending and building apps and workflows for Office 365 and Dynamics 365 today!

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Developing custom connectors for Microsoft Flow and PowerApps

PowerApps already provides over 200 connectors -to Microsoft as well as to 3d party services- for app makers to use and combine into their apps. Learn how you can build custom connectors and make them available to app makers around the world.

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PowerApps ALM via Microsoft Flow & PowerShell

Learn approaches and best practices from real apps built with PowerApps. Learn how to managing apps in large organizations using PowerShell and Microsoft Flow.

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Accelerate your SaaS App development using the power of the Business Application Platform

Join this session to learn how the Business Application Platform can accelerate the time to market for your next Line of Business SaaS app. Through the lens of an ISV/software developer, we will walk you through the entire application development process showcasing what it takes to build a new, composite app from the ground up using out of the box no-code/no-code tooling, to extending with custom code and connectors through to packaging and publishing to AppSource allowing you to reach 120M+ monthly active users. During this session we will also touch upon the value of the Common Data Ser
vice for Apps as it applies specifically to you as an ISV, how you can extend and contribute to the ISV ecosystem flywheel and greatly reduce both cost and time to market for new SaaS apps.

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