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Setup the CoE using Azure Key Vault

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, maintaining visibility and control over your organization’s M365 Power Platform environment is crucial. The Center of Excellence (CoE) for the Microsoft 365 Power Platform serves as a vital tool for organizations to monitor, manage, and optimize your Power Platform resources effectively. In this article, we will guide you through the process of setting up the current version of the CoE Core solution using Azure Key Vault for secure and efficient Audit Log access.

List Flows as Admin V2 API endpoint

A year ago, Microsoft announced the Transition to List Flows as Admin V2 action from deprecated List Flows as Admin action” for Power Automate. Well, we were using the old API endpoint until it stopped working recently. It took some time until we found workarounds or a successor. Also the PnP modules still are using the old API, and the endpoint address is currently not documented on any Microsoft website. Find it here!

That was M365Conf 2023 Spring

We were excited to be a part of the Spring 2023 edition of M365Conf, held April 30th - May 5th in Las Vegas. The M365Conf event was a major success, featuring a wide range of sessions, workshops, and networking opportunities that provided attendees with valuable insights and knowledge about the latest developments in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. And of course Microsoft Copilot was a big part of the announcements alongside the many helpful updates in the M365 services.

Create an Adventcalendar for festive techcalendar 2022 with Power Apps

Christmas is near. As a contribution to the festivetechcalendar.com, I describe here how to create an advent calendar with Microsoft Power Apps. You can download the Power App and use this app and this article to learn useful concepts in Power Apps. Here we go with the article for December 4th.

Power Platform Environments and Governance tips using Solutions

The Microsoft Power Platform is great for quick and easy solutions and workflows. While developing a new Power App or flow is quick, governance and management can present some hurdles. Well, there is help for some topics, such as the use of solutions. Read more here.

Tips for PowerApps-11 Make sure a value is selected in your dropdown

Working with Power Apps, have you seen that in the bound dropdown control the user can remove the selected item (even with single selection)? Well, there could be other solutions, but I want to make sure that a default value is always selected, even when the user clicks the button to remove the selection.

Tips for PowerApps-10 Validate form input with RegEx

Forms are simple. Forms are complex. Both are true depending on the functionality of the form. While you can create forms very quickly with Power Apps, it often takes a lot of time to make them as user-friendly as possible. In this article, we'll look at how we can validate and simplify input using Regular Expressions.

Pay your CoE with Azure - for special use cases only

The Center of Excellence (CoE), also known as the Microsoft Power Platform CoE Starter Kit, is a toolkit to gain insights into the use of the Microsoft Power Platform in an Microsoft 365 organization. While the installation has recently become a bit technically easier, a corresponding Power Platform license is also required for operation. Well, not every company owns or acquires the required license. We show how these license requirements can be solved with Azure temporary - for special use cases - and what are the benefits and the disadvantages of the PAYG billing.