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The Microsoft Power Platform enables individual solutions to be developed and business processes to be easily automated. When it comes to controlling the solutions, it is important to establish an IT governance in the organization. There are many areas and details about it. For this reason, I’ve put together a summary here with some news and helpful tips. The Microsoft Power Platform includes Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual agents, leveraging the common infrastructure of the Microsoft Dataverse (the former Common Data Service) and Data Connectors. Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform are both deeply coupled with Dataverse and are held in containers called environments. A governance strategy usually starts with organizing the environments accordingly. Environments allow to separate Production, Test and Development. See more at Environments overview and at Microsoft Power Platform guidance documentation. ...

Delegate365 v9.2.2 allows to manage group owners. The permission policies have been extended and the current admin can add him- or herself or additional group owners for Security Groups and Microsoft 365 Groups. See a description of the latest features here. Enable (or disable) the manage owner feature: To enable the “manage owner” feature, you have to set the corresponding permission policies in the Groups - Security Groups - Manage owner from No to Yes, as here. Then, click on the Save button at the page end of the permission panel. By default, this new setting is disabled. So, don´t forget to switch it on, if your admins shall be able to set the group owner for security groups (in the same way as for Microsoft 365 Groups). Once the setting is set, it will be effective for all admins that have that permission policy assigned. To learn more about setting permission policies, see here. ...

The Delegate365 PowerShell module got a small update to expand a user´s assigned licenses, license plans and proxy addresses. See the following description. See the description at https://github.com/delegate365/PowerShell how to use the Delegate365 PowerShell module- Check the Delegate365 PowerShell module version First, ensure you have the latest version of the Delegate365 PowerShell module installed. Check with Get-Module as here. The version must be 1.0.0.10 (or in future a higher version). ...

The standout mode is now available in Public and Developer Preview in Microsoft Teams and will soon be allocated within all Microsoft Teams versions, and we love it! Benefits Your video feed is next/overlaid to your content Customize your video feed and content Bring your presentations to the next level For the standout mode in Public or Developer preview, you need the following Use the Microsoft Teams Desktop application as a presenter but also as an attendee to experience the standout mode option ...

Delegate365 provides a PowerShell module to access data in Delegate365 in scripts. You can import the Delegate365 module locally, or use it in the Azure Cloud Shell as well. See here, how to use the module in Azure Cloud Shell. Here, you can find a description of the Delegate365 PowerShell module. It is hosted in the PowerShell Gallery and can be easily installed. So, here´s a step-by-step guide how to use the Delegate365 PS module. ...

We are beyond excited since Microsoft enrolled the new meeting option “Webinar” in Microsoft Teams, besides the well-known options “Scheduled meeting” and “Live event”. In this article, we will show you step-by-step how to use the new feature. Preparations When you are choosing to create a new meeting in Microsoft Teams, you choose “Webinar”. A new meeting form pops up. This allows you to add a registration page to your webinar. As the next step, you set the scope for your webinar (require registration). In our example, we will choose the registration-option “For everyone”, meaning that anyone can register, attendees are muted by default, and only presenters can share content. All in all, you have the following options: ...

Starting in 2022, Microsoft will enable EU-based public sector and corporate customers to process and store all of their data within the EU. Read the article at EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud! Photo by Christian Lue on Unsplash Important Notes: This commitment will apply across all of Microsoft’s main cloud services Azure, Microsoft 365, and Dynamics 365. Microsoft’s cloud services already meet EU regulations. Microsoft Online Services already enable customers to comply with the GDPR even without this additional commitment to store and process data within the EU boundary. ...

I like to work with Azure SQL Databases and use data from the cloud without any administrative effort. When working with apps, App Insights helps to detect anomalies, and to analyze bottle necks. Although SQL Azure can scale very well, we discovered performance issues in some legacy apps. Read here how we solved that by optimizing TSQL data queries. The scenario There is an older web application here that is connected to an SQL database that is running in an SQL elastic pool. App Insights showed the reason (the SQL queries) for the bad performance. Diving deeper, the elastic pool and the database / Query Performance showed performance issues in detail with certain queries which had very long runtimes. As we see in the following screenshot, there are two long running queries. Query 164 has been executed almost 274,000 times in the past 24 hours, consuming more than 6:40 hours. We started to investigate this issue. ...

We look forward to participating in the Global Azure Austria event again! The event is part of the event series Global Azure 2021. As in the past years, the Austrian edition of Global Azure 2021 is provided by the Coding Club Linz. Like last year, Global Azure 2021 will be a virtual event again and deliver over 30 sessions to your home on April 16th. Join us! Global Azure is organized by the Azure community for the community. The annual series of events offers meetings and exchanges over 3 days. The Azure communities around the world are organizing localized live streams for everyone around the world to join and learn about Azure from the best-in-class community leaders. ...

When users shall have access to a PowerApp that is using Dataverse (formerly Common Data Service - CDS), they also need to have the permissions to access the data entity (nowadays called table). So, if your users get an ugly “unknown error occurred” when accessing the PowerApp, here´s the solution to assign the required security role and permissions. The data table To demonstrate how to set permissions, I switched to the environment (in my sample, it´s the “Dev environment”) and created a new table in the https://make.powerapps.com/environments/[environment-id]/entities / Data / Table menu. The table name here is atworktest with some text columns. ...